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EPIPSILIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
amina. 
leucaniifor- 
mis. 
cirphidia. 
Icucaniades. 
pyronota. 
derufata. 
leucanidia. 
plectistriga. 
lacteicosta. 
nezia. 
suboleagina. 
live see ns. 
E. amina Dogn. (11a) is larger, except the yellowish-grey costal area dusted with a reddish brown, 
without a discal spot and basal ray, the veins striped more whitish. Likewise from Ecuador. 
E. leucaniiformis Zerny (11 a). Forewing light yellowish-brown, strewn with blackish, without transverse 
lines and maculae, only with a blackish dot at the cell-end; along the median a blackish-brown ray being con¬ 
tinued to the margin; the veins of the marginal area are somewhat darkened; on the margin there are black 
internerval dots. Hindwing greyish-brown with lighter fringes. Bolivia (Cuesta de Cillutincara). 
E. cirphidia Hmps. Grey, dusted with a reddish brown, densely strewn with a dark brown, with a dark 
brown basal stripe below the median, a small black spot in the centre of the cell, and two at the cell-end; from 
here a white stripe being above and below bordered with red-brown extends on the discal fold to the distal 
margin; a red-brown oblique patch extends proximad from below the apex. Hindwing light reddish-brown 
with white fringes. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Peru (Acopampa). 
E. leucaniades Hmps. is of a brighter red-brown colour, scantily strewn with black, with a blackish 
stripe above the end of the median, being continued above the lower radial branch towards the margin; in the 
centre of the cell there are two small black dots, on the transverse vein there is one; on the margin there are 
minute black spots. Hindwing reddish brownish-grey. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Peru. 
E. pyronota Hmps. has whitish forewings being dusted with a bright chestnut-red colour except the 
costal-marginal part, a white-striped median and brown-striped veins in the marginal area; below the median 
there is a strong black basal ray, above it in the distal cell-end another black stripe, in the centre of the cell 
a black dot, at the end a little luna; instead of the postmedian line there is a series of black dots on the veins, 
a blackish shade on the discal fold at the margin, and a similar one below the upper median branch. Hind wing 
of a pure white, with a slightly brownish proximal margin, black discal dot and marginal streaks. Expanse 
of wings: 30 to 34 mm. From Peru. — derufata form. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) has the forewings barely dusted 
with chestnut. 
E. leucanidia sp. n. (10 k) is ochreous yellowish-white, in the basal half dusted with chestnut, distally 
turning more brownish-grey, except the broad light costal area and the median; the ring-macula is a black 
dot encircled somewhat yellowish, on the transverse vein a larger black spot; in the distal half all the veins 
are dark, on both sides bordered with yellowish-white, and between them with light internerval stripes; a post¬ 
median row of black dots on the veins, and on the margin a row of black dots. Hindwing diaphanous white 
with a blackish discal dot and a marginal row of thick black dots. Thorax above red-brown, abdomen ochreous, 
above with a broad blackish-grey band. 1 $ from the Cuesta de Cillutincara (Bolivia), at an altitude of 3500 m, 
captured by Fassl. 
E. plectistriga sp. n. (11 a) is very similar to pyronota, but it is of a deeper and more equable chestnut- 
colour, with an ochreous-yellowish costal stripe, the veins in the distal area bordered with a slightly lighter 
shade; below the basal half of the median a jet-black longitudinal stripe, the cell deep purple brown; the ring- 
macula is coherent with the costal stripe and pupilled black, the reniform macula is a blackish crescent from 
the lower end of which, above the lower radial, a dark brown longitudinal stripe extends to the margin, 
directly above it is a purple brown triangular spot, the apex turned towards the cell; a post-median double row 
of black dots; purple brown marginal triangles are continued like rays towards the disc. Hindwing of a pure 
white, diaphanous. Collar yellowish, bordered with a velvety black, thorax red-brown. Abdomen yellowish- 
grey with a ferruginous yellow anal tuft. From Mt. Tolima (4200 m), Colombia, discovered by Fassl. 
E. lacteicosta Hmps. Forewing as in plectistriga, but the veins of the marginal area are not striped 
darker; between the two black cellular spots there is above the median a black streak being feebly continued 
distally above the lower radial; all the rest as in pyronota. Expanse of wings: 32 to 34 mm. Peru (Agualani). 
E. nezia Schs. has yellowish-reddish forewings and a somewhat more whitish anterior body with a 
velvety black line on the collar; the forewing exhibits a long black basal ray; the small maculae are somewhat 
lighter than the ground, connected by a black streak which also extends yet for some distance before the ring- 
macula; on the margin dark dots. Hindwings demi-transparent white. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. Costa R-ica 
(Volcano of Turrialba). 
E. suboleagina Dogn. (10 k) has a light olive greenish-grey forewiirg with ochreous brownish markings: 
two dots, one near the base, another in the centre of the cell, a faded median line, a dentate posterior transverse 
line being often only composed of dots, an undulate line, and a marginal line of dots; the proximal half is somewhat 
more densely dusted with brown. Hindwing semi-diaphanous white with a grey costal margin and apex. Expanse 
of wings: 29 t-o 33 mm. Colombia, from the Quindiu Pass (3500 m), in September. 
E. livescens sp. n. (13 c) is very similar to suboleagina ; it is larger, as far as the postmedian line 
of a light bluish ash-grey colour, from there to the distal margin more reddish-grey, very scantily strewn with 
a blackish brown, with but one round black dot in the centre of the cell; only the posterior transverse line is 
marked by longish black dots on the veins, the undulate line by single, more dense accumulations of dark scales; 
