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E. ochreator Fldr. (40 f) is perhaps only an aberrative form of the $ of trebula ; forewings more uchrealor. 
densely and larger spotted black, but the hindwings golden yellow, with chains of black spots; f only know 
Felder’s figure (Novara, t. 101, fig. 2). 
E. cotyora Drc. (40 f) likewise greatly resembles laeta, but the $ has not the long tooth at the anal cotyora. 
part'of the hindwing, which is neither sooty black at the proximal margin; in the 2 also the hindwings are 
often intermixed with light spots. Costa Rica and Panama; numbers of it were taken by Fassl near Orosi, 
on the Volcano Irazu, in Costa Rica. 
E. euripides Dyar is allied to cotyora (40 f), the markings are blacker, more angular and differently euripides. 
arranged, the hindwings yellow and the anal angle more pointedly extended. Thorax blackish-green, the patagia 
bordered with orange. Abdomen orange, on the dorsum 2 rows of small black spots. Forewings of a creamy 
colour, the spots jet-black. 50 mm. Mexico. Type in the National Museum of Washington. 
E. extrema Wkr. (40 f). Rather small, the without the anal tooth of the hindwing. The forewing extrema. 
white with very numerous thick and fine dots; the antemedian and median rows sharply angular, those in the 
distal part of the wing irregular, sometimes confluent ; hindwings whitish, the inner-marginal part and an 
antemarginal row of spots blackish. Mexico and Central America. — chilensis Oberth. is much larger, and the chilensis. 
median row consists of larger spots. According to OberthTr from Chile. 
E. quitensis Oberth. (40 f). A large, clumsy species with purely white forewings with roundish black quitensis. 
spots, the hindwings with sparse marginal spots, the thorax dotted black, and the dorsum of the abdomen 
metallic blue. — From Quito; according to H amp sox a form of the widely distributed deflorata. 
E. persola Mschlr. (41 c) from Jamaica has the purely white forewings scantily though distinctly per sola. 
spotted blackish-blue. Abdomen and hindwings orange-yellow, spotted black, so that it somewhat resembles 
an Estigm. acraea (39 c). 
2. Fo rewings white, i n t e r m i x e d w i t h chains of d a r k rings. 
E. deflorata F. (-- scribonia Stoll, oculatissima Sm. db Abb., chryseis Oliv. , cunigunda Beauv. nee deflorata. 
Stoll) (40 g). One of the large species, A and $-forewings densely covered with large, thick black rings; hindwing 
with a black diffuse patch on the submedian fold and sparse marginal spots. Abdomen stout, above quite 
blackish-blue or with only scanty yellow spots on the abdomen and sides. — In ab. confluens Oberth. (40 g) confluens. 
the two middle rows of rings are flown together to one, thereby containing very long-stretched rings. — In 
ab. denudata Sloss. the hindwing is hyaline in the apical half. —- Larva, when grown up, blackish-brown, with denudata. 
similar tubercles, and dense tufts of thick, stiff bristles of a blackish lustre. Head black with brown sutures. 
Before each segmental indentation a dark purple transverse band, of the same colour are the ventral feet and 
stigmata. It attains a length of 7 or 8 cm, being 12 mm thick. On Plantago, Polymnia tetragonothea, Ricinus 
communis, and Euphorbia cyathophora, but also on numerous other low plants, on Helianthus, willows, accor¬ 
ding to reports also on cotton and coffee. It prefers particularly wet, sometimes flooded places; the butter¬ 
flies are fond of the light, where they may sometimes be met with together with the AS of Zeuzera pyrina being 
of a somewhat similar exterior. From New York to the south through the eastern states as far as Texas and 
Mexico; in most of the habitats not rare. 
E. ocularia F. (= cyaneator Wkr. , columbina Oberth.) (40 g). Like the preceding with a black, ocularia. 
lustrous blue dorsum of the abdomen, but the rings on the forewing larger and more regular, in the A those 
in the marginal third obsolete; those in the $ are so large that they leave but very little space between. 
Hindwings in the $ half blackened.— Inab.distans Oberth. the ring-markings of the thorax have disappeared, distcms. 
the wings are partly tinged brown. — Colombia. 
E. robusta Dogn. Abdominal dorsum like in the preceding with a blue reflection, but with transverse robusta. 
golden bands on the middle segments; in the the apical half of the forewing is unmarked, hyaline like in 
nmzinci, but the former has a large orange spot on the greyish-brown abdominal dorsum exhibiting a faint 
smalt reflection. Ecuador: Loja. 
E. dognini Rothsch. resembles robusta , but it is smaller, the with a white, not blackish-blue, dog aim. 
chest; forehead and palpi brown, not blue; the thoracic spots grey, not white, as in robusta ; and whereas 
in robusta the 1st abdominal ring is grey, spotted steel-blue, it is brown in dognini', the forewings of the q 
are less hyaline and the hindwings not at all. Near Rio de Janeiro and in the Organ Mountains. Rare. 
E. caudata Wkr. (= mexicana Oberth.) (40 h). Lbidoubtedly the southern representative of deflorata, caudata. 
the ring-markings sparser, finer and lighter, the markings on the thorax somewhat different (shoulder-covers 
with 2 rings each, instead of 1 ellipse). — bolivar Oberth. from Colombia has in the A an almost quite golden bolivar. 
yellow abdomen with fine dark bands, and the markings of the forewing behind the cell have died away. Mexico 
to Costa Rica. 
