pierus. 
pieroides. 
stolli. 
meridio¬ 
nal is. 
sangui- 
palpia. 
germana. 
archias. 
albitorna. 
minutum. 
170 EDCEREUM. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
yellowish tinge with darker veins and a marking very much like zonata. Venezuela and North 
Colombia. 
H. pierus Cr. ( =lucis Btlr.) (24 g). This species and the two next ones, being often mixed up with 
each other, form a group of very similar animals. Head and thorax olive-grey, with blackish-brown spots 
and stripes, 2 spots in the neck and hips are carmine. The abdomen is brownish-black with traces of carmine 
segmental lines. Forewings greyish, towards the base with an olive-yellow tinge; at the base short, black 
stripes, the lowest of which is bent and extends ar far as the middle of the proximal margin; a round spot 
in the cell, above it a small stripe at the costa; at the cell-end a transverse stripe and 3 irregular spots 
below it; behind the cell there is a row of spots, containing longer spots between the upper median and 
middle radial vein. An antemarginal macular band extends from the costa to the middle radial, and at the 
margin itself a row of small spots. Hindwings blackish-brown, in the disc diaphanous. Expanse of wings: 
34 mm. Amazon (Rio Jutahi). 
H. pieroides Rotksch. is somewhat larger and differs besides by a more yellow neck, the thorax being 
of a purer drab colour; the whole underside and a basal spot above on the 3 first abdominal rings are 
yellow-reddish; there are not any red segmental lines. The forewings are more whitish-grey with olive-grey 
veins. Amazon (Fonte Boa). 
H. stolli Rothsch. is beneath of a deeper rosy colour; above the vertex and neck are more extensively 
carmine; thorax and abdomen are dark drab, the base of the collar and shoulder-covers more yellowish-grey. 
Hindwings dark sooty-grey without being discally lighter. The forewings are olive-yellow in the larger basal 
parts, sooty-grey in the apical parts with a lighter transverse line in the middle. The spots at the margin 
are obsolete. In the the basal part is of a greyer tint, not so yellow. Amazon (Fonte Boa; Teffe). — 
subsp. meridionalis Rothsch. from San Antonio (Rio Madeira) has a black abdomen, grey thorax, and the 
forewings of a beautiful pearl-grey with bluish-grey veins and spots. 
H. sanguipalpia Hmps. (24 g) is entirely unlike all the other species and looks, owing to the hyaline 
wings, something like a Loxophlebia. The body is black, the palpi, a spot between the antennae, spots on 
the thorax, and the underside of the anal tuft are carmine. The lower half of the forehead, the hips and 
the ventral side are white. Wings hyaline with fine black veins, margins and apical spots. Expanse of wings: 
26 mm. Brazil (Blumenau). 
H. germana Rothsch. The description runs: ,,similar to sericea, but the abdomen above velvety black“, 
but it is not said which sericea it is. Described from Surinam. 
145. Genus: Euceremii Hbn. 
Beside Cosmosoma, this is the most diversified Syntomid genus containing species ranging from small 
sizes to the largest, the wings being mostly brown or grey with various markings, yellow or black spots, 
streaks, dentate lines etc. The abdomen is mostly red or yellow, but also brown. The genus already greatly 
approximates the Arctiids by the presence of a fragment of the costal on the hindwing— The rise of the 
uppermost subcostal vein on the forewing from the cell separates the genus from Hyaleucerea. The middle 
radial vein of the hindwing rises close at the lower and upper median veins or together with them. 
E. archias Stoll (24 g) is not to be mistaken by the long, yellow hair-tufts at the sides of the first 
abdominal ring, arid by the lobularly widened, yellow proximal margin of the hindwing in the $. The 
hindwings are otherwise blackish-brown, the forewings greyish-brownish, with dark brown-spots. Forehips, 
spots on the neck, and abdomen carmine, the anal end black, the venter yellow. Guiana. — The larva is 
light yellow with long white hair-tufts on the anterior and posterior segments, and black dorsal spots on 
the same segments. It lives on Citrus and changes into a grey cocoon. 
E. albitorna Dogn. is much smaller than minutum, the anal angle of the hindwing being still more 
extended. It differs besides by its orange-yellow neck, sometimes also vertex, and brown abdomen on 
which only the anal tuft is ochreous-yellow. The hindwings are entirely black, with a broad whitish proximal 
angle and white fringes. Expanse of wings: 21mm. East Colombia (Medina: 500 m). 
E. minutum Bruce (= drucei Kirby) (24 g) has a reddish-brown body, the 3 last abdominal rings 
are above orange-yellow. Forewings light brownish-grey with darker brown veins and spots; before the 
middle there is an indefinite undulate line; in the middle of the cell and at the end one small dark spot 
each; traces of an oblique, dark discal line; an antemarginal, irregular, dentate line and on the border 
short, small sagittal spots. Hindwings light yellowish-brown; the whitish proximal angle is pointedly pro¬ 
duced, the proximal margin turned over and in this fold roughly scaled. Expanse of wings: 26 mm. Panama. 
