SCEPSIS —EUCEEEON. 
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SCEPSIS, Walher. 
Scepsis trifasciata, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. II.) 
Primaries pale brown ; the veins, base, apex, and external angle black- brown : secondaries 
hyaline white, with a black outer border, black veins, and a grey costal area. Head and 
thorax dark brown ; abdomen black : head and collar spotted with carmine ; prothorax 
spotted with white ; abdomen crossed by three yellow bands : body below pale brown ; 
trochanters and a row of spots on each side of the venter, cream-colour 3 a white streak 
below proximal end of femora. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 
Jurucua, Rio Purus ; taken September 26, 1874 (/. W. H. Trail) . 
EPISCEPSIS, n. gen. 
Allied to Scepsis : shorter in the primaries ; secondaries with two subcostal branches, 
running close together at their origins j upper discocellular nearly four times the length of 
lower, strongly inarched ; radial as usual dividing the diseoeellulars ; lower discocellular very 
short and oblique ; second and third median branches emitted close together (not from the 
same point) at the end of the cell ; first median emitted normally ; body not so long as in 
Scepsis. Type E. veiiata, n. sp. 
Episcepsis venata, n. sp. (Plate XVI. fig. 7.) 
Wings hyaline, the veins black ; jirimaries brownish, with the apex, base, external angle, 
margins, and a spot on the diseoeellulars, dark brown ; secondaries hyaline white, with a 
broad external black border. Body dark brown ; frons white-spotted ; back of head and 
sides of collar spotted with carmine ; abdomen shot with blue, terminal segments above 
metallic green ; collar below white-spotted ; legs white below, trochanters of first pair rose- 
red ; venter white in the centre, grey -brown at the sides, with a row of small testaceous 
spots ; genitalia yellow. Expanse of wings I inch I line. 
Rio Jutahi, near Rio Curnem ; taken January 29, 1875 (/. W. H. Trail). 
EUCEEEON, Hubner. 
Eucereon varium. (Plate IX. fig. 5.) 
Euchromia (Eucerecon) varia, Wall-er, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 266. n. 117 (1854). 
Primaries black-brown; the veins, two very irregular transverse lines (converging 
towards inner margin), a lunulated submarginal line, a sigmoidal litura intertwining with the 
external transverse line, and a basal arched litura, whity brown ; a whitish spot within the 
end of the cell, and another just below the middle of outer margin : secondaries hyaline 
white, veins and boi'ders black. Body black-brown ; collar, a broad transverse band on 
proximal half of abdomen, and two lateral spots above it, orange ; a whitish spot on m^ta- 
