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green, above with a golden coppery lustre; the first segment exhibits above in the middle a large, square, white 
spot of a turquoise-blue iridescence, the lateral tubercles are white; the second ring is all white with a more 
or less intense brassy lustre; the 4 first rings are ventrally white. The forewings exhibit a blue lustre in the 
basal halves, distally more green; hindwings in the costal halves brownish-grey, otherwise black, with a bluish- 
green lustre. Beneath all the wings are bluish-green. Described according to 3 $3 from Ecuador. Type in the 
Coll. Seitz. 
E. surinamensis Moschl. (= tractipennis Druce) (20 f) has unicolorously brown forewings. The surinamen- 
abdomen shows dorsal and subdorsal series of copper-coloured spots with a metallic bluish-green lustre. Neck sls - 
and prothorax spotted carmine. Forehips spotted white. The first 4 abdominal rings show sublateral white 
spots. Mexico; Panama; Colombia; Surinam. 
E. phaeoptera Dogn. is allied to the preceding. Black; collar with 2 large, green spots; a similar spot phacoptera. 
near the base of the forewing; thorax metallic green, abdomen with 3 rows of green spots, beneath blackish- 
green with 2 white sublateral spots on the two first segments and a white dot on the 4th segment. Hips 
white. Wings above black with a bottle-green tint. Expanse of wings: 41 mm. Colombia (Canon del Tolima, 
1700 m). 
E. rosenbergi Bothsch. greatly resembles surinamensis , but it is of much brighter colours, chestnut- rosenbergi. 
brown; the spots on the abdomen are of a coppery green, not bluish-green lustre. It forms about the inter¬ 
mediary between the preceding and ustulata. Colombia. 
E. ustulata Fldr. (20 f) differs from the preceding by the abdomen being also laterally and under- usiulcda. 
neath metallic green with a coppery lustre, the sides of the second segment exhibiting a white spot and the 
3 first rings broad, white sublateral stripes, whilst the 4th ring remains green; the antennae are of a deep metallic 
blue, on the shoulders there is a carmine spot. The forewings are yellowish-brown with darker veins, towards 
the margins darkened; the costal part of the black hindwings is whitish. On the under surface the disc of the 
forewing and the costal part of the hindwing are metallic green. Colombia. 
E. albipunctata Lathy (20 g) differs from all the other species by two very small, oblong hyaline albipunc- 
spots of the forewing, one being near the lower cell-end, the other just below it between the median veins; there tata ' 
is often yet a third below the 3rd radial; for the rest the black wings are metallic green at the costal margin 
and in the submedian area, the hindwings are brownish-white in the costal area. The black body is spotted 
white on the collar, shoulders and thorax; the bronze-green abdomen exhibits large white lateral spots on the 
two first rings, white sublateral spots on the 5 first segments. Ecuador. 
93. Genus; Ceramitffa Btlr. 
Chiefly distinguished from the preceding genus by the absence of the lateral hair-tufts at the anus 
and the shorter, somewhat erect palpi. Besides the $ exhibits scent-scales on the undersurface of the costal 
margin, the costa of the hindwing being strongly bent here also covers hair-tufts of the forewing. Of late a 
great number of new species has been described, all of which are very similar, so that it is not easy to discern 
them. 
C. mathani Bothsch. Head and thorax of a bright coppery green, the forehead and thorax yellowish mathani. 
white, the antennae blackish-blue; legs coppery green; neck spotted carmine, shoulder-covers broadly bordered 
with black. The abdomen is above coppery green, beneath white. Forewings oily deep olive-brown, at the 
base and the basal third of the costa with a green lustre. Hindwing in the costal half light grey, otherwise brown¬ 
ish-black. Length of forewings: 20 mm. Amazon (Teffe). 
C. obscura Btlr. (20 g) is well marked by an entirely white ventral side of the abdomen except the obscura. 
last, black segment. Neck spotted red, basal joints of the palpi and hips white; in the $ almost the whole 
palpi and the forehead are white. The wings are dark-brown with a coppery lustre. On the under surface 
the inner-marginal area of the fore- and hindwings of the are white. Amazon. 
C. butleri Moschl. (= eriphia Druce) (20 g) is white on the ventral side of the 3 first, abdominal butteri. 
segments, otherwise copper-coloured. In the neck there is laterally a carmine spot. The black forewings with 
a slight coppery lustre are metallic green in the basal halves. The greyish-black hindwings have a whitish 
costal-marginal area. Guatemala, Panama, Ecuador, Surinam, Para. — viridis Druce (20 g) is probably only viridis. 
to be considered as a form of the preceding with a much more intense and more extensive green metallic lustre, 
more yellowish-red spots in the neck, and mostly of a larger size. From Panama. 
