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each preceded by a narrow black fascia; first of these fasciae from middle 
of costa to above upper angle of cell, slightly dilated, sending off a small 
zig-zag black strigula from its lower edge along closing vein, thence streak 
horizontal, halfway towards termen, narrowed; second black fascia 
narrowed, curved posteriorly, to before middle of termen ; a pair of large 
transverse white marks on costa before apex, posterior mark twice as 
large as anterior, slightly inwardly curved ; four rather ill-defined slightly 
sinuate bronze-fuscous narrow parallel streaks, paler than ground colour, 
forming together an inwardly oblique erect patch on middle of dorsum 
reaching halfway across wing to beyond middle of disc; ocellus erect-ovate 
slightly outwardly oblique, occupying somewhat more than middle third 
of wing breadth: fuscous, slightly paler than ground colour, with a 
series of five longitudinal black marks, which become longer and narrower 
below; ocellus also edged by two rather short transverse metallic-blue 
streaks, anterior streak broader, faint, posterior streak slightly curved, 
shining, narrowed below; paler fuscous colour extending below ocellus to 
tornus, its anterior edge well-defined, straight, vertical, to dorsum before 
tornus; a narrow shar-p black marginal line: from last costal white mark 
running around apex, along termen and in tornus; this line interrupted in 
middle of wing by a minute glossy bluish-grey dot, sometimes this dot 
absent. Cilia dark fuscous, around apex and along upper two-thirds of 
termen shining pale metallic bluish-green. Hind wing blackish-fuscous, 
becoming pale fuscous above middle of disc anteriorly and at base; cubital 
pecten paler, fuscous-greyish; an elongate marginal patch of glossy 
whitish-greyish scales between veins la— lb; cilia glossy pale-fuscous, 
with a dark fuscous basal third. 
Tegumen erect. Uncus triangular, with a short apical projection. Gnathos, 
if present, weak, membraneous, not to be confused with the large anus. 
Valva elongate, constricted in middle, cucullus obliquely ovate, sacculus 
with long marginal bristles towards base. Aedoeagus slender, pistol- 
shaped. Cornuti a group of short spines (Slide No. 821, holotype, No. 822, 
paratype). 
Ostium, a broad funnel, with orifice supported by an oval plate. Ductus 
bursae sclerotized throughout. Signa inequal, minutely denticulate, with 
large basal plates; larger socius long (Slide No. 858 D, allotype). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939 (holotype, male). February 17, 
1939 (allotype, female). February 24, 1939. One male, two females. Nearest 
to E. obnixa (Meyrick), from Java. 
Sereda Heinrich, 1926 
Sereda Heinrich, 1926 U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 132, pp. 6, 25, figs. 29, 118. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol 11, p. 203, 1929. 
This genus is characteristic by the absence of a cubital pecten and by 
the approximated veins 6 and 7 in hind wing. A single species from North 
America has been described so far. 
