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EXJCEREUM. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
tessellatum. E. tessellatum Schaus likewi.se greatly resembles aeolum, but it is much larger. The colour of the 
anterior body and of the forewings is more lilac-grey, the spots in the neck of a salmon-rosy colour like 
the underside. The hindwings are somewhat darker. Expanse of wings: 38 mm. Costa Rica. 
cimonis. E= cimonis Schaus. Head dark grey, sides of forehead and vertex, below the eyes and collar spotted 
yellow; palpi blackish-brown, at the base yellowish. Thorax olive-brown, striped black. The abdomen is 
above carmine, a large dorsal spot on the 3 first rings, subdorsal rows of spots on the others, broad lateral 
stripes, and the anal segment are black. The venter and hips of a salmon-rosy colour. Wings rosy grey, 
veins and cell-fold light olive-brown, black spots arranged similarly as in latifascia. Hindwings diaphanous 
blackish brown, veins and distal margin darker. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. Costa Rica; Venezuela; Ecuador. 
latifascia. E. latifascia Wkr. (25 a) is a rather large species from Mexico, the whole of Central America, Para 
as far as Peru. — The forewings are brown with black spots; the largest are situate: at the base of vein 1 
and in the surroundings of the cell-end, particularly between the median veins. Postmedian distally long- 
clentate spots above the lower median vein, the middle and upper radial, with whitish diffuse spots between 
them; a submarginal row of oblong spots. Hindwings transparent blackish-grey, at the border darker. 
Abdomen red with a large, triangular, blackish-brown spot at the base and black apex. Single black dorsal 
spots; broad black lateral stripes. Venter yellowish-rosy. 
holer is. E. baleris Dyar differs from the preceding by the much greater extent of the dark spots, so that 
they almost entirely cover the wing and there remain only fine light lines between them. Expanse of wings: 
41 mm. Mexico (Santa Rosa, State of Vera Cruz). 
flemmingi. E. flemmingi Roihsch. differs from latifascia by its unicolorously reddish buff underside, the hips not 
being red, the thorax of a unicolorous timber tint, the abdomen above more scarlet without any dorsal 
spots; the brownish-grey, triangular basal spot extends only across 3 rings; the last ring and sublateral 
stripes are of a timber tint, not black. The forewings are pale timber-tinted, the spots dark brown. Hind¬ 
wings of a monotonous diaphanous brownish-grey with darker veins. Length of forewings: 22 mm. Ecuador. 
pilati. E. pilati Wkr. (= sylvius Sepp, conjunctum Mdschl.) (25 b) likewise greatly resembles latifascia and 
is smaller; the black spots are much smaller and thinner, more like streaks, the thick spots round the lower 
cell-end are absent. The base of the abdomen is less extensively black, the dorsal spots are completely 
present. From Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Surinam. 
crythrolep- E. erytbrolepsis Dyar (25 b) is closely allied to pilati, somewhat smaller, with a paler ground-colour, 
SiS - more grey, all the black spots much smaller, in the shape of streaks, particularly the one between the 
median veins, being very prominent in pilati, is very small. The abdomen does not exhibit any black dorsal 
spots. Known only from Mexico. 
E. obliqisifasda Roihsch. is lighter than pilati (25 b), with larger and more irregular spots on the 
forewings; the black stripe on the upper median vein is absent, but instead a broad, dark brown oblique 
band traverses the wing from the costal centre to the proximal angle. Trinidad. 
E. rmaja Druce (25 b) lias light brown forewings, with darker reddish-brown little strokes and in¬ 
distinct dentate lines and darker spots in the middle of the cell and at the cell-end, the latter with darker 
patches above and below them. Hindwings whitish, veins and margin darker. The abdomen is above carmine, 
beneath whitish with black dorsal and lateral spots. Distributed from Mexico through the whole of Central 
America as far as Guiana; also in Trinidad. 
E. myrtusa Druce (25 a) is a large species from Mexico and Costa Rica with greyish-brown, black-marb¬ 
led forewings; at the base of the proximal margin and below the cell-end there are large black spots. Hindwings 
diaphanous light grey, at the border somewhat darker. Head and thorax of the same colour as the forewings. 
The first and last abdominal segment blackish-brown, abdomen otherwise above carmine with black dorsal 
spots, and with lateral spots being coherent beneath. Venter yellow. 
E. patrona Schaus (25 b) resembles myrtusa, but it is easily recognizable by the broad, blackish-brown 
longitudinal band traversing the whole forewing from the base to the apex, being only shortly before twice 
interrupted. From Mexico (Orizaba, Misantla: May, June, October) and Venezuela. 
E. patulum Dogn. (= patronides Rothsch.) differs from patrona by the carmine-rosy, not yellowish 
underside and hips, and by the deeper black markings on the forewing, being concentrated to larger spots par¬ 
ticularly above the longitudinal stripe in the middle of the cell and at the cell-end, the shape of the wings being 
somewhat broader and the border of the hindwing more convex. Expanse of wings: 45 to 48 mm. Peru. 
E. servator Kaye differs from patrona (25 b) by the hindwings being of a quite unicolorous, diaphanous 
pearl-grey colour. The dark brown abdomen exhibits only the two penultimate rings vermilion, the 4 prece¬ 
ding ones being coloured red only at the sides . Expanse of wings: 44 mm. Venezuela (Caracas). 
ohliquifas- 
cia. 
maf a. 
■myrtusa. 
patrona. 
patulum. 
servator. 
