ERIOPUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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A. phraortes Drc. (35 b) is one of the largest species of the genus and, like the following species, phraortes. 
exhibits the abdomen above quite blackish-brown. The ground-colour is deep reddish blackish-brown, the 
single transverse lines are bordered with yellowish, at the costal margin white; the maculae are surrounded 
by minute silvery spots; below the apex there is on obliquely quadrangular silvery spot and 2 small ones below 
it; instead of the undulate line there are minute black submedian lunae distally bordered with yellow. Hindwing 
very pale yellow with a broad blackish-brown marginal band. Peru and Brazil. 
A. scione Drc. (35 b). Here the ground-colour is very much lighter red-brown, the subapical silvery scione. 
spot oviform, the thorax very light red-brown, not almost black as in the preceding species; the dark brown 
transverse lines are bordered with grey on the averted sides, the ring-macula is a V-shaped silvery spot, the 
reniform macula is bordered by several small silvery spots, and in the centre there is a bent silvery streak. 
Hindwing likewise cpiite light yellow. Colombia. 
A. aurifundens Wkr. ( — ditissima Drc. part.) (35 b) is allied to phraortes, but somewhat smaller, aurifun- 
ancl with a much lighter thorax. On the blackish-brown forewing the veins are lighter striped, the transverse dens. 
lines, particularly the posterior line, decidedly double, filled up and bordered with grey, the silvery maculae 
tinted golden, the ring-macula U-shaped; at the apex there is a bi-dentate silvery spot, below it a double row 
of smaller spots. Hindwing orange, broadly bordered with brown. •— In ab. rufobrunnea Strd. ( = ab. 1. Hmps.) rufobrun- 
(35 b) the whole hinclwing is irrorated with red-brown. •— ab. atribrunnea Strd. (= ab. 2. Hmps.) is much darker, , nea • 
x 7 ° # ' x . 7 atribrunnea. 
the forewing, head, and thorax are deep blackish-brown. — From Mexico to Peru and Brazil. 
A. eubotes Drc. (35 b) differs from aurifundens in much smaller subapical silvery spots, particularly eubotes. 
the uppermost being small, obliquely wedge-shaped, the series below it not double but single; the transverse 
lines being composed of black lunulae are on the averted sides bordered with red-brown, the maculae are 
marked by fine silvery streaks and below connected. -—- In ab. apicalis Strd. (= ab. 1 .Hmps.) the subapical apicalis. 
silvery spots are more or less entirely absent. — Colombia to Brazil. 
A. decumana Fldr. (= satana Schs.) (35 b), like the following panamensis, exhibits no silvery markings decumana. 
whatever at the apex; the forewing is dark red-brown, the black transverse lines are bordered with yellowish; 
only the reniform macula has proximally a silvery streak, distally a silvery dot; the undulate line is composed 
of white lunulae which are proximally spotted black. Hindwing very light yellow with a broad red-brown 
marginal band. Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
A. panamensis Drc. is already very much like the following genus Eriopus , owing to the quite blackish- panamensis. 
brown hindwings. The dark brown forewing is strewn with grey, the black transverse lines are on the averted 
sides bordered with grey, the small maculae in fine grey rings; the whitish, finely crenulate undulate line projects 
on the lowest radial branch to the margin. Panama. 
32. Genus: Eriopus Tr. 
Proboscis fully developed, the frontal hairing is extended into a point. Antennae in most of the species 
in the male sex secondarily very much modified, exhibiting the most varied twists, knots, and distortions and 
being set with hair-tufts or single bristly hairs. The legs are also set with the most multifarious hair-tufts. 
The thorax is clad with scales mixed with hair, the prothorax and metathorax exhibit loose tufts, the meso- 
thorax a parted tuft, the abdomen on the 3 first rings large hair-tufts. The distal margin of the forewing is 
at the apex and in the centre produced, below the apex mostly rather distinctly concave, the anal angle shows 
a scaled tooth. Numerous species are distributed in the Old and New World. The larvae, as far as they are 
known, live on cryptogamian plants: ferns. As to further particulars, cf. Vol. Ill, p. 193, and Vol. XI, p. 158. 
E. jamaicensis Mschlr. (35 c). Forewing olive-green, strewn with black, costal margin and centre jamaicensis. 
of hind-margin yellowish like the veins, with double transverse lines filled up with white, the posterior line 
in the centre more yellowish; the white maculae are centred olive and surrounded with black, the white undulate 
line is proximally spotted black. Hindwing reddish-brown, at the margin darkened. Jamaica and Cuba. 
E. dapsilis Schs. (35 c) has black forewings with white veins; from a double white basal line an dapsilis. 
ochreous hair-tuft extends to the anterior transverse line which is distantly remote from the base, extending 
almost straight down to the submedian fold and then turning towards the base; instead of the maculae there 
are only fine white streaks; also the posterior transverse line consists of double white lines, the same is the 
case with the undidate line, and a fine line parting the apex. Hindwing blackish-brown. Costa Rica. 
E. floridensis Gn. ( = elegantulus H.-Schaff., strena Grt.) (35 c) is a very well-known and widely floridensis. 
distributed species with ochre-brownish forewings, double blackish-brown transverse lines filled up with whitish, 
the brown-centred maculae in whitish rings, with a triangular dark brown costal spot between both; the white 
undulate line extends in an acute angle to the margin on the lower radial branch. Hindwing yellowish-brown, 
