ERATEINA. — ER1LU8A. 61 
EEATEINIDJ5. 
ERATEINA, Doubleday. 
Erateina cometaris. (Plate XX. fig. 6.) 
Erateina cometaris, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xii. p. 229. u. 35 (1873). 
Wings above with basal half greenish cinereous, -with bronze reflections ; apical half 
black : primaries with a nearly central abbreviated oblique white band : secondaries with a 
white oblique line; a red spot near anal angle; fringe varied with white. Wings below plum- 
coloured ; nervures of basal area and two oblique central bands, broadest on primaries, silver ; 
an oblique transverse discal golden streak : primaries with the internal area silver ; outer 
central band hyaline in the centre : secondaries with the golden discal streak abl)reviated ; 
fringe alternately black and white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 
Huasampilla, Peru [Whitely). 
Erateina discalis. (Plate XX. fig. 7.) 
Erateina discalis, Batler, Ann. t^' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. -4, vol. xii. p. 229. n. 36 (1873). 
Primaries above black ; basal area and a hyaline spot crossing the median branches and 
end of cell, white ; costal and subcostal nervures red : secondaries white ; a broad black outer 
border; fringe varied with white. Body black ; thorax clothed with Avhitish hairs ; abdomen 
white-banded above, white below, with lateral red spots : head white; frons and antennae red; 
palpi and legs black and white. Primaries below plum-coloured; internal area and central 
transverse band silvery white ; the band with hyaline centre ; basal half of costa irrorated 
with orange ; the base and an oblique dash in the cell white : secondaries silvery white ; a 
spot and two dots in the cell, a large patch on inner margin, a marginal border terminating 
in front in a quadrate subcostal spot, and spots on the fringe at the terminations of the veins 
reddish plum-colour, speckled with orange. Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line. 
Huasampilla, Peru ( Whitely) . 
MARGARODID^E. 
ERILUSA, Walker. 
Erilusa dioptalis. (Plate XX. fig. 1.) 
Erilusa dioptalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hct. Sappl. iv. p. 1376 (1865). 
Wings purplish brown, with steel-blue reflections, particularly at the base : primaries 
with a bifid hyaline spot interrupted by the median nervrure, and a postmcdian abbreviated 
oblique hyaline white band : secondaries with a broad central hyaline streak from tlie base to 
near the outer margin. Body brown, bluish in parts ; below whitish ; collar clay-colourcd. 
Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. 
Ega {Bates). 
