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anterior line a narrow coniform macula, the distal line strongly dentate; the undulate line is composed of small 
black sagittae. Hindwing blackish-brown with a lighter disc. Expanse of wings: 42 mm. Mexico (Hidalgo). 
E. moesta Wlcr. (= dolens Drc., fornax Drc.) (20 i). This species and the two following exhibit the moesta. 
same structure a r s christa and its allies, but they have a dentate distal margin. Forewing red-brown, strewn 
with a darker colour, with indistinct, dentate, double transverse lines, behind the distal line double rows of 
dots with small maculae being pupilled blackish, a faded median shade and darker marginal area with an 
ochreous-yellow small spot at the anal angle. Hindwing dark brown. Mexico to Venezuela. 
E. niveipuncta Schs. (21 a) is very similar to moesta, but easily discernible by a white, not yellow spot niveipunc- 
at the anal angle of the forewing; the transverse lines are not double, but single, broader and more blurred. 
From Mexico to Panama. 
E. lindigii Fldr. (20 i) has more ochreous-brownish wings and no light anal-angular spot, the veins UndU/ii. 
of the marginal area and internerval stripes are striped darker, the transverse lines are more marked by dots 
on the veins. Colombia. 
E. euchroa Hmps. (= magnifica Zerny ) (21 c) has ochreous forewings dusted with red-brown, in the cuchwa. 
$ suffused with a leaden grey colour, with dark red-brown maculae, the ring-mamda obliquely oval, in the 
$ almost touching the reniform macula which is on the median produced towards the base, distally below 
dotted white with a dark brown spot behind it and above it at the costal margin. Transverse lines double, 
red-brown, at the costal margin thicker and black with dots on the veins; the undulate line consists of small 
yellowish spots which are proximally bordered with red-brown spots growing larger towards the costal margin. 
Hindwing greyish-brown, in the $ darker. Colombia and Peru. 
E. monopis Dyar (20 k) is a smaller blackish species with broad wings, with a likewise slightly dentate mono-pin. 
distal margin and hardly prominent markings, the ring-macula shows a slight leaden lustre, the distal trans¬ 
verse lines are somewhat darker than the ground, the only distinct marking is the oval white reniform macula 
with a yellowish linear marking in the centre. Hindwing brownish-grey, towards the base lighter with a dark 
central spot. Mexico. 
E. subolivacea Hmps. (20 k) has long lateral hair-tufts on the abdomen, touching those of the ventral subolivacea. 
side; the same is the case in the following 7 species; besides the cell of the forewing beneath is thickly 
covered with downward hair. Forewing greenish-ochreous, scantily strewn with dark, with punctiform trans¬ 
verse lines without maculae. Hindwing yellowish-white, at the costal and distal margins brownish. Brazil. 
E. atrisignata Jones. Forewing ochreous-yellowish brown, the transverse lines marked by dots on the atrisignata. 
veins, the anterior line only submedianly; both the upper maculae are black as well as a dot in the base 
of the cell. Hindwing ochreous-brownish, towards the base iridescent, with dark veins. Expanse of wings: 
34 mm. Brazil: Castro (Parana). 
E. melanosticta Hmps. (21 a). The hairing of the cell of the forewing is absent here as well as in the melanostic- 
following species belonging to this group. Forewing purple brown, strewn darker with rather indistinct double f(l ' 
transverse lines, the two posterior lines separated afar; the reniform macula is marked by some white scales 
on a red-brown spot, before it there is a dark median shade; before the white undulate line there are minute 
black sagittae, larger ones above and below the middle radial branch. Hindwing yellowish-white, the veins 
and margin brownish, with purple reddish fringes. Brazil to Paraguay. 
E. purpurigera Gn. (21 a) is recognizable by the chocolate upper maculae being below confluent in purpurige- 
the shape of a V on the greyish-white forewings which are dusted with olive-brownish and purple reddish; in 
the <§ the red tint predominates, the maculae are of a deeper black, the ring-macula is smaller and does not 
quite extend to the distal macula. Hindwing greyish-brown. Brazil. 
E. duruscula Schs. Forewing light violettish-brown, scantily strewn with black, with black transverse duruscula. 
lines, the anterior line being nebulous, the posterior line indistinct, behind it the veins are black and strewn 
with grey; the very large upper maculae are surrounded with a light yellowish-reddish; the yellowish-reddish 
undulate line is straight, behind it the veins of the marginal area are likewise black and strewn with a greyish 
white. Hindwing thinly scaled, brownish-grey, with yellowish fringes. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Costa Rica 
(Volcano of Poas). 
E. nigripars Schs. (21 b). Forewing ochreous-reddish with indistinct transverse lines, the posterior nigripars. 
lines dentate with dots on the veins behind them, and with a dark median line; the large reniform macula is 
in an ochreous-yellowish ring, above with 2 black spots connected by a bent line, below pupilled black; before 
the ochreous yellow undulate line there are black dots. The $ is more tinted purple-reddish. Hindwing 
brownish-grey, in the $ with a hyaline stripe below the cell. Mexico, Costa Rica, Ecuador. 
E. diapera Hmps. (20 k). Forewing light ochreous-yellowish, dusted with red-brown and strewn with diapera. 
black, with lighter striped veins; the transverse lines are light brownish with black dots on the veins on them; 
instead of the ring-macula a black dot in the centre of the cell, the reniform macula strongly strangulated 
in the middle, and except this central part finely surrounded with black, filled up with a reddish ochreous 
colour; a blackish median line is almost rectangularly broken at the lower cell-angle; the undulate line begins 
black at the apex, turning then brown, distally reddish-ochreous, near and parallel to the posterior transverse 
line. Hindwing light ochreous-brownish. Expanse of wings: 36 mm. Ecuador, Peru. 
