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form. 7101-. It has additional j'ellow dusting in the end of the cell of the forewing and on the hindwing. On 

 the under surface the margins are darker red-brown with blackish borders. 



E. carcinia Schaus, from South Brazil, is said to have colourless wings with narrow margins and a carcinia. 

 white spot behind the cell at the costal margin of the forewing. — In psiS6n&- Schaus, from Central Brazil, the pasena. 

 body is said to be grey beneath; the transparent wings with very narrow brown margins. Forewing with 

 narrow streak at the end of the cell and a transparent streak at the costal margin. Hindwing with 1 — 2 

 white dots at the apex of the under surface. 



E. mira Heic. (= segesta Weym.) (39 d), from eastern Ecuador, has a very broad yellow half-band at mira. 

 the end of the cell of the forewing and is otherwise similar to dausina. 



E. hymenaea Prittw. (39 e), from Central Brazil, has brownish margins and half-band at the end of the hymenaea. 

 cell of the forewing and in addition a whitish patch. Diaphanous spots are placed at the distal margin of 

 both wings. On the under surface the margins are lighter. — hymen Hsch. (39 e), from southern Bolivia, hymen. 

 is smaller with broader margins and half-band at the end of the cell, and also a yellow oblique band. Sub- 

 costal red-brown at the base. The median, the end of the cell and the hinder angle of the forewing are dusted 

 with yellow, and also the lower radial of the hindwing and a stripe at the costal margin on the under surface. 



E. sulphurea Hsch.. from the border of Peru and Bolivia, has longer wings, broader yellow obhque sulphiirea. 

 band and broader dar-k brown margins. The yellow dusting is extended over the cell of the forewing and the 

 greater pai't of the hindwing; on the other hand it is absent at the costal margin of the hindwing beneath. 



E. sao Hbn. (39 d), from Brazil, has broader dark margins and yellow patch at the end of the cell of sao. 

 the forewing. Base of the under surface of the hindwing yellow-brown, distal margin with 4 white crescents. 

 — obscurata F. is according to Butlee a dark form of the preceding. obscumta. 



E. sylpha Hsch. (39 e), from Venezuela, is similar to Miraleria sylvella, but is smaller and has different sylpha. 

 neui-ation. The wings are diaphanous with brownish margins; at the costal and inner margins of the fore- 

 wing with yellow-brown, and the same at the inner angle of the hindwing. At the end of the cell of the fore- 

 wing a yeUow patch. 



E. polita Weym. (39 e) is very similar to Pteronymia aletta. The wings are dark-shaded with dark polita. 

 brown margins. The inner margin and the subcostal of the forewing, as well as the veins in the disc of the 

 hindwing, are yellow-brown. Besides the yellow spot at the end of the cell both wings have further yellowish 

 patches at the distal margin and in the end of the cell, polita flies together with Pteronymia aletta in Colombia. 



E. cabenis Hsch. is somewhat larger, with colourless wings, dark brown margins and white half-band cabenis. 

 behind the brown one at the end of the cell. On the under surface the margins are yellow-brown, dark-margined 

 with 1 — 2 dots in the apex of both wings. It flies like the similar Helena Hscli. in eastern Colombia. The helena. 

 latter is still larger, with narrower margins, triangular spot at the end of the cell of the forewing and broader 

 white half-band. 



E. sidonia Hsch., from southern Peru, has more pointed wings; cell of the hindwing with long recurrent sidonia. 

 vein. The white patch at the end of the cell of the forewing is only distinct at the costal margin and on the 

 radials. On the under surface the margins are deep ochreous coloured, without white dots in the apex. 



E. cora {Bang-H. i. I.), from Bolivia, is larger than the similar ticidella Heiv. (39 e), from eastern Ecuador, ^^g^^gjja. 

 The wings in cora are slightly brownish; behind the end of the cell of the forewing, at the distal margin and 

 at the inner angle of the hindwing yellowish. Across the end of the cell of the forewing there is a broad 

 brown wedge-spot; in ticidella there is only a very narrow dark mark here and behind it a whitish patch. 

 On the under surface the margins in cora are light yellow-brown, in ticidella brownish with white dots in the 

 apex of the forewing and at the distal margin of the hindwing. 



E. canilla Hew. (= canaletta Stgr.) (39 c) has elongate wings with yellow dusting, except in the apex. caniUa. 

 The margins are dark brown; in the $, especially in the hindwing, much broader. On the under surface the 

 margins are brown-red, with dark borders; at the base of the hindwing yellow; with white double spots in the 

 apex of the forewing and at the distal margin of the hindwing. 



E. perasippa Hew. (39 e) is a very large, little marked species from Ecuador and Colombia. The wings ptrasippa. 

 are yellowish, vitreous with narrow brown margins and a streak across the end of the cell of the forewing. The 

 subcostal of the forewing and the underside of the margins are yellow-brown. 



E. dirama Hsch. (39 f), from Bolivia, is smaller, with broader streak at the end of the cell and yellow dirama. 

 spot behind it. The costal margin of the hindwing is yellow on the under surface. — alidella Hew., from Co- alidella. 

 lombia, is a very similar form, which also much resembles Pteronymia alida. Hewitson has noticed that 

 there is a difference between the two in the neuration, which also appears to be constant for other species 

 of Efiscada and Pteronymia: in alida the lower arm of the lower discocellular of the forewing is the longer; in 

 alidella it is the upper one. alidella has broader wings with dark margins and broad yellow half-band at the 

 end of the cell of the forewing. In the $ there are further several yellow patches at the distal margin. 



E. scantilla Hew., from eastern Ecuador and Colombia, has similar wing-form to dirama, a white spot scantilla. 

 at the end of the cell of the forewing and white patches at the distal margins. 



