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with black small spots being arranged similarly as in arenosum. Fringes speckled black. Hindwings black, 
towards the base more grey. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Trinidad. 
E. rufidorsale Eothsch. is dark grey on the head and thorax, in the neck orange. The abdomen rufidorule. 
is unicolorously scarlet, with a grey anal apex. The underside is yellowish light rosy. The forewings are 
in the basal half of a pure white, at the base there is a black spot with a grey one below it, before the 
middle a transverse line, behind it one being broken up into grey spots. The distal half of the wing is 
white with yellow veins; across the cell-end runs a broad band, being composed of irregular, grey, confluent 
spots, extending from the costa to the proximal angle; before the apex we notice a dark grey band from 
the costa to the middle radial; the apex and a series of spots in front of the margin are likewise dark grey. 
Hindwings diaphanous drab. Length of forewings: 17mm. Ecuador. 
E. formosum Dogn. Head and thorax white with black dots, collar anteriorly somewhat bordered formosum. 
with rosy. Abdomen rosy with one dorsal, 2 lateral and one ventral, black macular stripe, the last ring all black. 
Legs black, white and rosy. Forewings milky white with small black spots round which the white is some¬ 
what brownish: 5 at the costal margin at equal distances, one in the middle of the cell, and one more towards 
the base, 2 each before and behind the transverse vein; behind them 4 more, then 6 before the margin 
and 3 more at the proximal margin. Fringes white. Hindwings somewhat smoke-coloured. Expanse of wings: 
44 mm. South East Peru. — dognini Eothsch. from Mexico and Costa Rica has a dirty yellowish grey- dognini. 
white ground-colour of the forewings and more brownish-grey hindwings. 
E. rtifkollis Lathy differs from Hel. balia (24 g) by its carmine neck and orange-yellow' ventral ruficollis. 
side. Venezuela. 
E. leria Druce (24 k) has white forewings with very irregular, blackish-brown spots bordered with term. 
yellow, with grey dusting between them; hindwings light grey, at the border somewhat darker. Head and 
thorax white, spotted grey and black, neck red. Abdomen with black lateral spots and a blackish-brown 
anal apex. Ventral side yellowish, the segments margined with reel. Palpi and legs spotted black and white, 
forehips inside red. — Mexico, Panama, Ecuador and Bolivia. — Occurs also with a yellow abdomen and 
neck: lerioides Schaus. lerioides. 
E. dilutius Eothsch. differs from leria (24 k) by its somewhat larger size, the spots on the forewings dilutius. 
being much larger, though not so confluent and partly obsolete; besides the veins and margins of the spots 
are much more extensively orange-yellow. Length of forewings: 21 mm. Minas Geraes; Sa. Marta. 
E. tarona Hmps. (24 k) is considerably larger than the preceding species, but otherwise it greatly tarona. 
resembles them; it differs by the vertex being almost entirely black and the colours on the forewing being 
more clearly distributed; the black spots are more brightly bordered with orange. Mexico (Misantla), Panama, 
Brazil (Sao Paulo). 
E. cofispicuum Eothsch. is a very beautiful, large species from Costa Rica and Ecuador, being allied conspi- 
to the following. The head and palpi are quite yellow, the thorax velvety black with a large yellow spot cuum. 
on the metatliorax and a yellow proximal half of the collar. The abdomen is in the $ carmine like the 
whole underside, in the $ golden orange, the 1st and last segment and series of dorsal spots dark sooty 
grey. Forewings in the £ yellowish olive-grey, in the $ of a purer yellow. The veins, a spot near the base 
with an undulate line behind it, a spot at the costa and in the cell, a very large discal spot, an undulate 
postmedian line, a spot from the costa to the middle radial, a series of antemarginal spots, and a marginal 
line are velvety black. Hindwings whitish diaphanous, veins brown and margins grey. Length of forewings: 
26 mm. Costa Rica; Ecuador. 
E. giganteum Druce. Head black, neck carmine; collar and thorax black, with yellowish-brown giganteum. 
stripes, and a large yellow spot on the metathorax. Abdomen black, above with carmine bands, the last- 
rings all red. Forewings brownish - black with light yellowish veins; at the cell-end there is a brownish white 
spot, behind it a band of a similar colour; a light brownish antemarginal line extends from the apex to 
the proximal angle. Hindwings white, broadly bordered with black, with black veins. Expanse of wings: 
58 mm. Colombia. 
E. punctatum Guer. (== mitigata Wkr., cribrum Mdschl., zamorae Dogn., reticulatum Btlr., areno- punctutum. 
sum Druce) (24 k). Head and thorax brownish-grey, spotted black, in the neck yellow and red. Abdomen 
red with a black terminal segment and lateral rows of black spots. Fore wings whitish with grey veins and 
between them oblong, blackish-brown spots. Hindwings blackish-brown with a whitish diffuse patch below 
the cell. Distributed from Guatemala as far as Paraguay. 
E. buchwaldi Eothsch. Closely allied to punctatum and discernible by the yellowish grey-white, not buchwaldi. 
dark grey underside, by dark grey markings on the thorax, by a series of dark grey dorsal spots on the 
abdomen and by irregular, often sagittal spots and stripes oig the forewing in the place of regular oval spots. 
West Ecuador (Quevedo). 
E. hyalin urn Kaye (24 k). Anterior body ochreous-brownish, marked black; neck yellowish-red, collar hyalinum. 
black; on the metathorax a yellow spot. Abdomen black with subdorsal, almost contiguous, carmine spots 
