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row of yellowisli brown or dark cliestnut-red spots, which stands out but little on the dark ground and on the 

 hind^^"Ulg is angled and abbreviated. The under surface is irrorated with yellow-brown. The band of the hind- 

 wing is here ochre-3'ellow and reaches the inner margin with a large spot. Ecuador. — triquetra Thieme triquetra. 

 is a form of fuba which has on the underside of the hindwing in the anterior part of the disc a dark brown triangle 

 on a light ground. Ecuador. 



43. Genus: Erotris Thieme. 



The fore^ning is broader and shorter than in the genus Pedaliodes, its distal margin is more rounded, 

 whilst that of the hindwmg is weakly undulate. The principal character of the genus consists in the shape of 

 the inner margin of the hindwing, which shows a distinct excision before the anal angle. Antenna brownish 

 yellow, -with the separate jomts somewhat thickened at their upper end and hence forming distinct rings. 

 Its shaft is short, the tip obtuse, black. The butterflies are mostly dark brown, below medium size, with eye- 

 spots or leaden-hued Imes on the underside of the hindwing. They occur in the mountains of tropical South 

 and Central America. 



E. decorata FIdr. (= Pron. catargyrea Stgr., phyllalia Stgr.) (56 b). Above unicolorous dark brown, decomia. 

 distally somewhat lighter. Beneath easy to recognize by the very complicated pattern, which the figure distinctly 

 reproduces. From Bogota and Antioquia in Colombia. — mariona Weeks (= Pedal, m.) is a form of decorata mariona. 

 in which the dark brown submarginal line on the underside of the forewing is proximally finely bordered with 

 brick-red and the markings of the hmdwng are more suffused with yellowish. The red-yellow bordering of the 

 eye-spots is only narrow, not broad. Bogota. 



E. porphyria Fldr. (56 b). Above unicolorous brown. Beneath the hindwing has a straight red-yellow porphyria. 

 median Ime. proximallv bordered with lilac. Beyond the row of small eye-spots 2 lilac undulate stripes at the 

 margin. Figured from Felder's type in the Tring Museum. Venezuela. 



E. oceUifera Fldr. (56 c). Above brown, the hindwing with a very small subanal ocellus, the anal ocellifcra. 

 angle grey, slightly dusted with rust-yellow. On the underside of the hindwing before the eye-spots there 

 is a proximally red-yellow, distally ochre-yellow, anteriorly pointed stripe, running from the inner margin to 

 the middle of the wing. Figured from one of the types in the Tring Museum. Colombia. 



E. encycla Fldr. (56 c). Above unicolorous brown. Beneath the proximal part of the hindwing is encyda. 

 tinged vn.t\\ ochreous fawn-colour, the eye-spots are larger than in oceUifera, the space beyond them as far as 

 the submarginal lines is filled up with glossy lead-colour. Figured from Felder's t3rpe in the Tring Museum. 

 Venezuela. 



E. cah'sto Fldr. (56 b). Above dark brown, distally somewhat lighter. On the under surface of the calisto. 

 hindwing the eye-spots are broadly bordered with glossy lead-colour both basally and distally and midway 

 between the submarginal lines is placed a leaden line. Bogota and Veja in the Colombian East Cordilleras. 



E. oculata i^Wr. (56 d). Hindwing above with small subanal eye-spot dusted with rust-yellow. Beneath oculata. 

 the wings are as in encycla, but the marginal area of the hindwing is not glossy leaden but violet-grey; the prox- 

 imal stripe red-yellow, proximally bordered with black-brown. The eye-spots are surrounded with pale yellow- 

 browTi. Figured from the type in the Tring Museum. Bogota. 



E. apuleja Fldr. (56 b). Above brown, at the anal angle of the hindwing red-yellow, which colour apuleja. 

 occupies the posterior third of the distal and inner margins. On the underside of the hindwing an ochre-yellow 

 band, anteriorly red-yellow, runs to the middle of the wing, becoming narrower anteriorly. The anal angle is 

 red-brown. The eye-spots are very small. Venezuela. — phyllalia Hew. is a form of a-puleja with two small, white- vhylUdia. 

 pupilled black spots in the red-yellow anal patch on the upper surface. Ecuador. 



E. hulda 5<Zr. <&; Druce(5& c). Above brown, at the anal angle somewhat reddish, with dark submarginal Imldu. 

 line. Forewing beneath with .3 tran.sverse lines between middle and distal margin. The anal third of the hind- 

 •\ving beneath is ferruginous, traversed by an interrupted yellow stripe and with 2 eye-spots before the anal 

 angle. According to the "Biologia Central! Americana" Butler described this species from a damaged specimen 

 in coll. Druce. Hence Godman and Salvin's diagnosis and figure in the above work agree but little with the 

 original description. Costa Rica. The species seems, however, to be more widely distributed, for the example 

 from coll. Weymer figured here, which agrees with the figure just mentioned, is from Ecuador. 



E. subpunctata iS'm. cfc Kirhy. Brown. Forewing beneath with 2 dark transverse lines in the middle subpunc- 

 and 2 before the margin. Hindwing at the base dark brown, in the middle somewhat reddish, then a ferruginous ^('^■ 

 dentate stripe, l)ordered with dark brown at both sides, and a grey-brown band with 6 small, black, white- 

 pupilled eye-spots. At the distal margin 2 ferruginous marginal lines. From Bolivia. — umbrina form., nov. amhriua. 

 (56 c) approaches stihpunctata, but differs from it in the presence of 2 anal eye-spots on the upperside of the 

 hindwing, one in cellule 1 c near the distal margin, the other in cellule 2 somewhat further from the margin, 

 both black with light brown ring and white pupil. For the rest the upper surface is dark brown, at the margin 



