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EUTELIA. Von Dr. M. Draudt. 
abscondens. 
pulcherrima. 
poecilatrix. 
pompejana. 
blandula. 
jaguaria. 
ablatrix. 
1. Genus: JEutelia Hbn. 
Proboscis developed, palpi fairly long, the 2nd segment very densely scaled. Antennae of £ with long 
pectinations in the american species, simple in apical third, basal segment with a large scaly spine. Thorax 
and abdomen with tufts. Forewings have a dentate outer margin with a more or less distinct excision below 
the apex and above the anal angle, so that the middle of the margin protrudes. Neuration is normal, hindwings 
with very short cell, veins 3 and 4 often somewhat stalked and vein 5 bold, arising close above the lower angle 
of cell. There are about 20 species in America. According to Hampson, the Genus should now be named 
Phlogophora. 
Type: E. adulatrix Hbn. (palaearctic). 
E. abscondens Wkr. (55 a). Forewings pale brown in costal half, darker chocolate-brown towards the 
inner margin, with delicate white double transverse lines and a larger white, approximately triangular inner 
marginal spot, conjoined to which distally there is a round yellowish spot with brown edge. Nervures in median 
area with delicate white streaks. Between veins 5 and 3 in subterminal region there is a roundish blackish 
spot with white inner edge. Before the bluish grey-white apex there is a dark brown triangular spot. Hind- 
wings semi-transparent white with wide black marginal band that merges into red-brown towards the anal 
angle; there is a short white intersecting line between 3 and anal angle. Larva, which is probably green, al¬ 
though the specimens preserved in spirit are pale brownish, has a blackish head with a pale “V” shaped mark¬ 
ing. Foodplant is not indicated. It occurs from Mexico to Brazil. 
E. pulcherrima Grt. (= dentifera Wkr.) (55 a) closely resembles the preceding and may be considered 
its representative in more northern regions. Ground colour is a much paler and more reddish brown, especially 
in inner marginal part. All the chocolate-brown area of the preceding species is a pale reddish here. Markings 
are otherwise approximately the same. Atlantic States (New York). 
E. poecilatrix sp. n. (55 a) also closely resembles the preceding, but is larger and has wider wings. The 
brown colour is paler, more reddish, centre of costa white with a small reddish spot from which a nebulous line 
extends to lower angle of cell. The white inner marginal spot is considerably larger and approximately quadrate. 
The transverse lines are more distinct and purer white. The black postmedian spot is much longer and extends 
from 5 down to 2, where it merges in the yellowish grey subterminal band; its white edge upwards and in¬ 
wardly consequently forms a long hooked line, not a short crescent as in abscondens. The white anterior trans¬ 
verse line forms a sharp angle on median nervure and distinctly extends to costa, whilst in abscondens it ter¬ 
minates in a rounded arch on the median nervure. Hindwings as the preceding species. Mexico (Zacualpan). 
Type in the collection of Draudt. 
E. pompejana sp. n. (55 a) most resembles abscondens , but the ground colour is a rich pompeian red. 
there is no white colour except for a white lineolet at the upper edge of the arch of the small black-brown 
ocellus that only extends from 5 to 4. The white striations on the veins are completely absent, the inner marginal 
triangle is yellow-grey, the distal round yellow spot is absent, the transverse lines are extinct except for short 
rudiments at inner margin. Apex and fringes are dark mouse-grey, the bluish area above the inner marginal 
spot is deeper slate-grey. The distinct white inner edge of the narrow, in this case dark red marginal area 
below apex of forewing is absent hei’e. Hindwings transparent white with wide black marginal band without 
the white anal streak, with deeply dark fuscous fringes. Described from 1 $ from Zacualpan (Mexico), captured 
in June. Type in the collection of Draudt. 
E. blandula H.-S. (= caustiplaga Hmps.) (55 a) is another similar species, the representative on the 
Island of Cuba. Forewings fuscous admixed with grey, median nervure and its branches are white. Trans¬ 
verse lines are inclined to grey, not pure white; posterior to the very oblique anterior transverse line there is 
a grey-white band from costa to the lower angle of cell. The chocolate-brown oblique band before the centre 
of inner margin is narrower and darker than in the preceding species, the pale triangular spot distally inclines 
to yellow-grey. Otherwise the remaining markings are very similar to those of the preceding species. Only 
known to occur in Cuba. 
E. jaguaria Jones. Body pale reddish, admixed with purplish brown. Forewings reddish, anterior to 
the blackish antemedian from costa to vein 1 grey-brown, a dark shade in median area. The reddish reniform 
stigma is outlined by yellowish lines and is somewhat excurved distally. The posterior undulate transverse 
line is obtusely angulated on the discal fold and extends then obliquely inwards to inner margin. The wide 
post median area is pale reddish to the subterminal line that is undulate. Anteriorly there is the usual dark 
subapical triangular spot. Marginal area grey-brown. Hindwings white suffused with grey-brown in marginal 
half with traces of a postmedian and a subterminal line; on underside with a grey-brown discal spot. Wing 
expanse: 32 mm. Jaguariahyva (Parana). 
E. ablatrix Gn. (= rufatrix Wkr. ) (55 b) differs from the preceding by a much darker red-brown ground 
colour, which is suffused with blackish in basal costal half and in the oblique band before the centre of inner 
margin; the distal half of inner margin beyond is transparent whitish, intersected by dark oblique lines. The 
dark white edged subterminal spot is completely absent. The grey apical spot is small. Hindwings transparent 
white with wide blackish red marginal band. The $ is a still darker pompeian red, the transparent inner 
