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E. miniata Rothsch. (31 k). Head, thorax and abdomen are dark olive-brown, beneath lighter and miniata. 
more reddish, very long-haired. Forewing dark brown, at the costal margin carmine. In the cell there is a 
small, white, semidiaphanous spot, and a similar one on each side of the upper median vein. Hindwings vermilion 
with a black base, black veins, discal spot and margin. Length of forewings: 19 mm. Peru. 
E. discalis Schs. (31k). Body black, abdomen above suffused with metallic blue. Forewings brownish- discalis. 
black with interspersed, reddish buff scales; in the middle of the cell there is a square, whitish spot, behind 
the cell a blackish shade. Hindwings orange-red with black margins. Expanse of wings: 31 mm. Peru (Carabaya). 
E. discosticta Hmps. (26 g). Anterior body black, suffused with metallic bluish-green, abdomen black, discosticta. 
curled greenish-blue. The black forewing exhibits at the base below the median an orange-yellow stripe, behind 
the cell an orange-yellow spot. The hindwings are orange with a black proximal and distal margin. Venezuela. 
E. metochria Dogn. ( = drucei Rothsch.) (31 i). $ palpi, head, antennae, patagia, tegulae and thorax metochria. 
black, abdomen black with a blue lustre, venter and legs black, the latter with some bluish hairs. Forewings 
above blackish-brown, beneath black. Hindwings above and beneath black, in the cell, in the postdiscal and 
submedian folds ochreous-yellow, but the veins remain black. Fringes black. 35 mm. Colombia, at an altitude 
of 3200 m. — roseipennis Rothsch. (31 f) differs from metochria by numerous, reddish-yellow scales being inter- roseipennis. 
spersed on the forewings; the hindwings are dark brown, strewn with reddish buff, in the disc rosy-red. The 
species is besides somewhat larger. Length of forewings: 21 mm. Bogota. 
E. laudabilis Druce (26 h) differs from discosticta by the wings being more brownish, by the absence laudabilis. 
of the postdiscal spot, and the yellow basal spot being only short. Bolivia (Rio Songo). 
E. umbrescens Schs. (31 k). Head and thorax dark brown; palpi black, at the base white. Abdomen umbrescens. 
above black, strewn with ochreous-yellow, underneath more light grey. Forehips isabel-yellowish. Forewings 
dark brown, at the cell-end an indistinct dark spot, the proximal margin almost black. Hindwings brown, 
strewn with yellow, preponderantly in the cell; distal margin blackish. Expanse of wings: 30 mm. Peru 
(Carabaya). 
E. innotata Dogn. (31 i) has a black body and uniformly dark brown, long, narrow wings. The forewings innotata. 
are rather densely scaled, the hindwings semidiaphanous except the apex and anal angle. Expanse of wings: 
25 mm. Loja. 
156. Genus: (Philoros Wkr. 
Distinguished from Ctenucha by the upper radial of the forewing rising from the upper cell-angle and 
by the palpi being obliquely erect, the terminal joint being porrect. 
Ph. laura Hmps. (26 h) has a red head and anal apex; moreover, the black body exhibits a deep laura. 
blue lustre, the underside being more or less white. The forewings are black with white fringes at the apex 
and proximal angle; the hindwings blue with broad, white fringes and a white spot at the apex and anal angle. 
Known from Bolivia. — colombina subsp. nov. (26 h) differs by its snow-white costal margin, white spots on cotombina. 
the shoulders, white-striped shoulder-covers, a broad, white longitudinal stripe on the mesothorax and entirely 
white fringes; besides, the white apical spot of the hindwing is much smaller and the yellowish stripe at the 
proximal margin of the forewing is absent altogether. Described according to 2 <$<$ from Colombia (Rio Negro 
and Sosomoco, East Cordilleras, 1200 m). Type in the Coll. Seitz. Perhaps a good species. 
Ph. flora Druce, (31 1). Anterior body black, abdomen bluish-black. Forehead and front of the palpi nora. 
white, so are the border of the collar and the legs; neck red. Forewings black, costal margin white, the proximal 
margin bordered with yellow. Hindwings dark blue, bordered with a bright red from the apex up to the proximal 
margin. Expanse of wings: 40 mm. Peru. 
Ph. rubriceps Wkr. (= scepsiformis Hy. Edw.) (26 li) is an extraordinarily common animal being rubriceps. 
most widely distributed from Mexico to Argentina. It has dark brown forewings and bluish-black hindwings, 
the abdomen being suffused with metallic blue, and scarlet palpi, throat and vertex, which are orange-yellow 
in the form: opaca Bsd. (26 i); in this form occurring in Argentina, Paraguay and South Brazil, the forewings opaca. 
are darker, the hindwings with a deeper blue lustre. — griseatus Rothsch. from Venezuela (Merida) is everywhere griseatus. 
unicolorously drab, except the carmine palpi, throat and vertex. 
Ph. affinis Rothsch. (31 1) from Peru and Colombia has more greyish-brown forewings with black affinis. 
veins, the hindwings have no blue lustre at all. Very widely distributed; Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina 
and Peru. 
Ph. neglectus Bsd. approximates affinis, being somewhat larger, with quite pale brown, sometimes neglectus. 
almost whitish forewings with blackish-brown veins. The hindwings are semidiaphanous. The spots on the 
palpi and head are orange. Expanse of wings: 36—40 mm. Known from Mexico, Brazil, Peru and Argentina. 
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