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A. bituminosa Dyar (40 a, b). Wings without any red, unicolorously grey; in the $ the abdomen is biluminosa. 
above of a bright red with small black dorsal spots. Mexico. — It was considered to be an extreme form of the 
preceding, but the <$ has more pointed wings, the $ a more obtuse body. 
A. pompeia Drc. is almost exactly like aulaea, but the thorax is not marked grey, but unicolorously pompeia. 
dark brown, also on the wings the brownish-grey colour is increased, so that the forewings show much less white 
spots, the hindwings much less red spots. Mexico. 
A. picta Pack. (40b) was discovered by Bruce in West Colorado at an altitude of 6000 ft. Likewise picia. 
very similar to aulaea. but the white spotting of the forewings rather increased, hindwings with narrower and 
lighter dark bands. The under surface of the wings only pale pink or yellow, spotted light red, not dark red. 
— citra Neum. & Dyar (40 b) from Colorado shows the forewings spotted lighter. The hindwings without any extra. 
black bands, quite pink or also (in the g) somewhat transparent. — In hampsoni Dyar the under surface of hampsoni. 
the basal area is red, spotted yellow at the costa; from New Mexico and Colorado. — In perotensis Schs. (40 b) perotensis. 
from Mexico the brown colour of the forewing is increased, and the hindwing of the A is quite transparent except 
faint spotting at the costa. — maja Ottolengui from Colorado, on the contrary, has the white spotting of the maja. 
forewing increased and the $ has a hyaline patch in the cell of the hindwing. Larva on Lupinus. Colorado 
and California to Mexico; the typical form is common, maja and citra rarer. 
A. dilecta Bsd. (= sanguinea Oberth.) (40 c). Forewings earth-coloured with large, irregular, white dilecta. 
spots surrounded by black; on the under surface in the cell a red, longitudinal, diffuse spot. The $ has light 
red hindwings, in which the dark bands, only commenced at the costa in the G, extend through the whole wing 
as far as the proximal margin. Mexico, to the south as far as Honduras. 
A. zuni Neum. (40 e) resembles dilecta, but the white spots of the forewing are smaller, those in the zuni. 
disc partly only in the shape of dots; hindwings in the semi-transparent, only the margins light red; in the 
$ with the 3 bands passing quite through. 
A. martina Drc. (40 c). Forewings greyish-brown with sparse, light reddish-grey, small spots sur- martina. 
rounded by dark, particularly at the costa and margin; hindwings in the middle transparent, the margins sooty 
brown. Abdomen red with a black dorsal stripe. Mexico. 
A. mishma Drc. (40 c). Larger than martina ; $ hindwings entirely transparent, forewings only in mishma. 
the distal halves. Abdomen red with a black dorsal stripe. Mexico. 
A. albescens Bmps. (40 c). Dirty white, the spots almost extinct and only recognizable by the ring- albescens. 
like enclosures; abdomen yolk-coloured. Very much like some Ecpantheria. Guatemala. — semiclara Stretch semiclara. 
is perhaps the normal $, perhaps also a form of Ecpantheria, allied to suffusa ; it shows the forewing with 6 
rows of dark spots on a whitish ground. 
13. Genus: Kejiaiitlteria Hbn. 
Nearly all the species of this multiform genus have purely or dull white forewings marked with rows 
of dark rings, the hindwings of the dd sometimes extended like a tooth in the anal part, the abdomen being 
variegated (sometimes metallic). The shape is clumsy, the head of the $ sometimes lowered so much that it 
can scarcely be seen from above. Proboscis absent, palpi small, antennae in the £ so short-combed that they 
look like plain bristles. The larvae have coarse, dense, prickly hair; they are very stout, on being disturbed 
they roll together like most of the hairy earth-caterpillars do, and are fond of wet places (flooded meadows, 
water-ditches, pools etc.). About 40 forms are known, partly differing very much and having received more 
than 70 names. The range extends from Texas to Argentina, only one species (E. deflorata) goes as far as New 
England in the north. They all like to come to the lamp, whilst in day-time they are not easily discovered. 
I. Forewings b 1 a c k w i t h s p arse white s p o t s. 
E. andromela Dyar (40 c). This species and the following are rather unlike the genus not only by andromela. 
their colouring and marking, but the $ is also without the tooth at the anal angle of the hindwing. They may 
not belong to the genus, but approximate the Turuptiana. Black, forewings with few white spots, hindwings 
quite blackish-grey. Thoracic dorsum black, only the shoulder-covers white; abdomen posteriorly golden 
yellow. Mexico. 
E. atra Oberth. (40 c). The white spots of the forewings in the A smaller, only that near the base of atra. 
the wing larger. Thoracic dorsum white, abdomen only laterally yellow. $ white, the forewings densely spotted 
black, almost like in Turuptiana permaculata (39 i). — In the form eminens H. Ediv. (he forehead, thorax, and eminens. 
forewings are tinged yellow. — Mexico. 
II. Forewings not b 1 a c k , w i t h cl ark small spots or rings a r r a n g e cl in ro w s. 
a) Ground-colour of the forewings greyish or brownish. 
E. indecisa Wkr. (_= degenera Wkr., annulifascia Wkr., bonariensis Bsd.) (40 d). Wings brownish indecisa. 
hgth grey, so that the chains of spots and rings are noticeable only by their contours. Abdomen also grey, above 
