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C. discalis Wkr. (22 a) has no hyaline spot in the cell and only a very minute spot below the rise of 
the 2nd median vein. The blue abdomen exhibits white stripes subdorsally, laterally and on the venter. The 
hyaline hindwings have a rather narrow, bluish-black border. -—• assuta form. nov. : the small hyaline spot is 
larger and extends above beyond the median, and as far as below the rise from the lower median vein; also 
below the base of the cell there appears another small hyaline spot. Amazon. 
C. umbraticola Klages is smaller than discalis which it otherwise greatly resembles in all parts, but 
with a large, triangular hyaline spot expanding in and below the cell, as well as between the median veins. The 
proximal margin of the hindwing is black as far as the base; fringes at the proximal angle white. Expanse 
of wings: 30 to 32 mm. Venezuela. 
120. Genus: Scliasiura Btlr. 
Distinguished from Ixylasia by the unpetioled rise of the upper median and lower radial vein of the 
hindwing; the middle radial vein is absent. 
Sell, mimica Btlr. (22c) looks very much like Ixylasia pyroproctis. Body black. Forehead and palpal 
base white, as well as spots on the shoulders, shoulder-covers, thorax and hips, above and at the sides of the 
1st abdominal ring. The last ring and a spot on the penultimate are carmine. Wings hyaline with black veins, 
margins and cliscal spots. Expanse of wings: 50 mm. Amazon. 
Sch. gymnelioides Zerny has broader, shorter wings and a stouter shape of the body than mimica, 
and much rather resembles a Gymnelia in the habitus. Body black, posteriorly and on the venter with a blue 
lustre. Anterior body spotted and striped orange. The 2nd to 7th abdominal rings are above narrowly, ventrally 
broadly bordered with orange. Wings faintly yellowish hyaline; the costal margin of the forewing of an intenser 
yellow. Veins, the narrow apices of the wings, and an orange-striped inner-marginal longitudinal band black. 
Hindwings with a broad black proximal margin. Expanse of wings: 35 mm. South America (?). 
121. Genus: Eupyra H. Schdff. 
A small group of species greatly reminding us of the genus Chrysocale by their exterior: the structure 
of the body and hairiness, the scheme of colouring and marking are the same. On the forewings the lower radial 
veins rise in common from the lower cell-angle; on the hindwings, with a comparatively long cell, the lower 
median vein rises far before the lower cell-angle, the upper one shortly before it, the middle radial, being well 
developed, rises above it. 
E. distincta Rolhsch. Body black; the chest, a dot on each side behind the eyes, the basal half of 
the shoulder-covers, and a dot at their apex white. The 3 penultimate abdominal rings with a cream-coloured 
transverse band. Forewings black, at the base and between the median and lower radial veins dusted with 
green, 2 hyaline spots in the cell, one below it, one behind it, and on each side of the lower radial vein one. 
Hindwings black with a purple lustre, a hyaline spot in the cell and one below it; costal margin, median, and 
proximal angle are of a billiant metallic blue. Length of forewings: 21 mm. Venezuela. 
E. disticta Hmps. (22 d). Body black, forehead, collar, shoulders and shoulder-covers, metathorax, hips 
and ends of the posterior tibiae spotted bluish-white; abdomen with metallic green subdorsal spots, the middle 
segments on the ventral side white. The forewings, being for the greater part suffused with metallic green, 
show, in the cell-end, a square hyaline spot and a round one above the middle of the lower median vein; the 
hindwings are bluish-black, with white spots above and below the lower median vein. Bolivia. 
E. imperialis H.-Schdff. (= florella Btlr.) (22 d) has black wings suffused with metallic green, and 
with a coppery lustre, which changes into red-violet in the submedian area; black are only the margins and 
the cell-end; in the latter a square hyaline spot; the hindwings, being dusted with green, have likewise a large 
hyaline spot in the cell-end. The body is black, the abdomen with a green lustre. Spots on the collar and sub¬ 
lateral stripes on the abdomen white. Colombia (Bogota), Venezuela, Peru. — In ducalis Maass. the hindwing 
exhibits no hyaline spot, whereas the one on the forewing is larger; the green dusting is more extensive. Found 
in Colombia. 
E. affinis Rothsch. differs from imperialis by the shorter but broader wings, the coppery green, not 
red colour of the forewings, the green, not black costal margin, the green, not black proximal margin with a 
black middle spot, and the disc of the hindwing, being green in the <£, black in the $. Peru and Ecuador. 
E. sages Druce (22 d) differs from the following species by white dorsal spots on the abdomen; the 
forewing, being dusted with green, shows a large, elliptic hyaline spot below the middle of the cell, round hyaline 
spots in the cell-end and above the 1st median and upper radial vein, between the two latter veins small hyaline 
dots. The hindwings show long hyaline spots below the cell and at the proximal margin, one in the cell-end, 
and two small ones behind it. Bolivia. — reducta form. nov. (22 d) lying before me from Colombia, to a certain 
discalis. 
assuta. 
umbrati¬ 
cola. 
mimica. 
(jyumc- 
lioides. 
distincta. 
disticta. 
imperialis. 
ducalis. 
affinis. 
sages. 
reducta. 
