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ER10PUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
argyrosema. 
trinitensis. 
orses. 
carmioli. 
leucotoma. 
mexicana. 
pyrocauta. 
mollissima. 
moneiifera. 
cordata. 
argentili- 
nea. 
at the margin darkened with red-brown. The $ is darker red-brown. Very widely distributed from North 
America (Florida) to Brazil, also in Trinidad. -— The young larva is green, the adult larva dark brown, living 
on ferns and often doing great harm to ferns grown in hot-houses. As the best preventative means, Pyrethrum 
is recommended. 
E. argyrosema Hmps. Forewing bright red-brown with a double whitish subbasal line, the brown 
anterior transverse line is removed as far as into the centre and proximally bordered with whitish, the double 
postmedian line filled up with whitish; the ring-macula is an oblique white streak, the reniform macula a 
silvery Y-shaped mark, laterally bordered with black; the silvery undulate line is on both sides bordered with 
brown, behind it there is another white undulate line. Hindwing greyish-brown. Peru (Chanchamayo). 
E. trinitensis Hmps. (35 c) is a smaller species, somewhat like the ochre-yellow ground of the fore¬ 
wing irrorated with reddish chocolate-brown, towards the apex strewn with white, with brown transverse lines 
bordered with oclire-yellow on the averted sides; the maculae are in whitish rings and laterally marked with 
brown, the ring-macula obliquely elliptical, between both a deep chocolate-brown triangular spot from the 
costal margin; behind the yellowish undulate line being on both sides bordered with brown, the apex is broadly 
dark brown, proximally bordered by a white line; hindwing red-brown, at the margin darker spotted. Trinidad. 
E. orses Schs. is somewhat similar, but much smaller; the forewing is brown, at the base darker, 
bordered by a fine white subbasal line; the fine blackish-brown transverse lines are on both sides broauly 
bordered with a lilac pink; the ring-macula is entirely absent, the reniform macula is only marked by a proximally 
white, distally brown cliscal streak, behind it there is a lilac shadow; before the whitish dentate undulate line 
there are darker brown triangular spots, behind it there is an oblique white line to the margin on the end of 
the lower radial branch. Hindwing greyish-brown. Costa Rica. 
E. carmioli Schs. (35 c) is still smaller with an expanse of but 21 mm. Forewing brown with a lilac 
tint, the darker brown transverse lines on the averted sides bordered with white, the posterior line at the costal 
margin shaded with pink, farther below distally with olive; the maculae are surrounded by whitish, the reniform 
macula being large and distally produced on the upper median branch; the broad silvery white undulate line 
is parted by brown beginning from the upper radial branch downwards, and it despatches a white stripe on 
the lower radial branch to the margin, and a similar one obliquely above it to the apex. Hindwing blackish- 
brown. Costa Rica. 
E. leucotoma Drc. (35 d). Forewing light red-brown, strewn with a lighter colour, with light veins, 
the red-brown transverse lines filled up with whitish; between the red-brown maculae being bordered with 
whitish there is a blackish cellular spot; the apical area is yellow, strewn with red-brown; the undulate line 
is composed of a series of small red-brown lunulae; a white stripe extends to the margin on the lower radial 
branch. Hind wing reddish dark brown. Peru. 
E. mexicana Drc. is a smaller species with bright red-brown forewings; the anterior transverse 
line is whitish, distally bordered with red-brown, the posterior line double, filled up with violettish grey; the 
ring-macula is a whitish streak bordered with black, the reniform macula inside shows a silvery streak bordered 
with black, outside two silvery dots; the undulate line consists of 2 red-brown lines, behind them there is a 
violettish-white, distally black line. Hindwing deep red-brown. Mexico. 
E. pyroeauta Hmps. The red-brown forewing is irrorated with fiery red and strewn with whitish, 
in the marginal area bluish-grey with indistinct whitish transverse lines, the posterior line on both sides bordered 
with brown; a bluish-white undulate line is only visible from the lower radial branch downwards. Hindwing 
red-brown, towards the base fiery red. French Guiana. 
E. mollissima Gn. (= rubicunda Wkr.) (35 c). The red-brown forewing is irrorated with dark brown 
in the costal half of the basal area, in the median area and distal-marginal area, with double transverse lines 
filled up with red-brown, the maculae surrounded with white and partly silvery, the bordering of the reniform 
macula is outside broken up into dots; before the white undulate line there are small dark brown sagittae, in 
the centre and subapically projecting in an acute angle to the margin; hindwing brown. A North American 
species distributed from Canada to Colorado. 
E. monetifera Gn. (35 d) is distinguished by particularly abundant silvery markings on the forewing 
which is yellow mixed with fiery red, the transverse lines being also divided into silvery spots; the largest silvery 
spot is situate distally below the reniform macula, the coniform macula being also silvery. No undulate line;' 
at the distal margin there are small yellow spots. Hindwing brownish-white. Canada to Florida. 
E. cordata Ljung. (35 d) is very similar, but at once discernible by the dark red-brown hindwings; 
the forewing is also irrorated with a darker red-brown, and there is a dentate red-brown undulate line. West 
Indies. 
E. argentilinea Wkr. (35 d). Forewing on the pinkish-reddish grouftd irrorated with dark red-brown, 
the darkest in the marginal area, with double transverse lines filled up with silvery white, the maculae filled 
up with carmine, the reniform macula below bordered somewhat silvery; the light pink undulate line is pointedly 
dentate subapically and below the centre as far as the margin. Hindwing deep red-brown. United States 
(Central and Southern States). 
