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a blackish-blue, a yolk-coloured abdomen spotted somewhat white. The species is almost everywhere in the 
hilly districts very common from Mexico to Venezuela, and the $$ belong to the most common butterflies 
taken by the lamp. Oberthur introduced a great number of denominations for this, somewhat variable species, 
all of which are cancelled by Hampson as being synonymous, albicollis shows the few rings filled up with white 
and the abdomen orange-yellow in the and 9, with two lines of white spot; the thoracic dorsum has 6 dark rings, 
in muzina only 4, and besides the costa-rings are wider and square, in muzina small and round. ./Brazil". 
thiemei is only a small specimen, and abscondens the £ of it. — depauperata is a distinctly marked $ without 
the nebulous spots before the margin of the hindwing, and garzoni is, on the contrary, a particularly large specimen 
with bright colours and markings. — In xanthonota the costal and antemarginal rings are marked more thickly, 
and yuTcatanensis is the £ fitting to this $ form. —• sennettii Lintner and a part of eridane mentioned by Druce 
in the Biol, of Central America likewise belong here, according to Hampson. 
E. icasia Cr. (= lautanae F., eridane Hbn. nec Cr., obliterate Wkr., simplex Wkr.) (41 a, b) is very icasia. 
closely allied to the preceding, but in the the anal tooth is much shorter, in the $ the ring-marking quite pale, 
and in both sexes the thorax is snow-white, without any markings. From the West Indies, and on the continent 
from Surinam to Chile. —-As guadulpensis Oberthur figures a form from the Island of Guadeloupe, with much fjuadidpen- 
more abundant and distinct ring-markings, in which also the metathorax shows some small white ringlets, sls • 
whereas the collar and prothorax remain unmarked white. — trinitatis Rothsch. is the form from the Isle of trinitatis. 
Trinidad, in which the black of the abdominal dorsum is replaced by white transverse bands; besides the Q 
forewings show duller markings. 
E. eridanus Cr. (41 b) from Colombia and Guiana is quite snow-white with an orange-yellow abdomen eridanus. 
banded white. Only <$<$ seem to be known hitherto. 
E. mus Oberth. (41 b). snow-white, forewings with very few small rings along the costa and proximal mus. 
margin, shoulder-covers with 1 ellipse each. Abdomen snow-white with 2 or 3 blue transverse bands before 
the end; in the $ the abdomen is above black with a white base. Forewings tinged yellowish-brown with rows 
of rings filled up with grey. Castro (Parana), Brazil. — The form brasiliensis Rothsch. has mouse-coloured, bmsUien- 
instead of white ground-colour and distinctly marked it is also found near Rio and in Paraguay. 
E. kennedyi Rothsch. from Minas Geraes (Preto) in Brazil resembles the preceding, but it is larger, kenned yi. 
The chest is white, not black, and the palpi, being white in mus , are here black. Head and tegulae are grey 
instead of white; on the latter there are not 2 parallel dark lines, but they converge to a V. The costal area 
of the semi-transparent forewing is light grey, not white. Hindwings white. Described according to a <$. 
E. oslari Rothsch. (41 b) is the smallest species with chains of rings. The thoracic rings and those oslari. 
of the forewings very small, the chain very regular, the hindwing all white except a preapical costal spot, the 
abdomen yolk-coloured. From Brownsville in Texas. 
E. nigriplaga Wkr. (= obesa Wkr.) (41 b). Large, particularly the $Q. The $ has a broad, large nigriplac/a. 
anal lobe of the hindwing, and punctiform, filled rings; easily recognizable by the crimson abdomen showing 
black transverse bands. Jamaica. 
E. burmeisteri Rothsch. (41 c) by the colouring and marking somewhat recalls the larger kinkelini burmeisteri. 
(41 a), but the abdomen is scarlet, with 2 rows of steel-blue dorsal spots; the anal segment above bluish-brown. 
The G forewing in the disc hyaline. Thorax and wings smaller, and spotted brown not grey. Jose Steinbach 
brought it from Tucuman (North Argentina). 
14. Genus: Ectypia Clem. 
Without a developed proboscis; palpi minute, the 3rd joint stunted; head and thorax not woolly, but 
covered with smooth scales. Spurs of tibiae short. Only 2 almost white butterflies from North America compose 
this genus. 
E. thona Streck. (39 1). We copy Hamp sox’s figure which was copied from a figure by Strecker. thona. 
White, with a very faint reddish-yellow hue; on the median and submedian, as well as at the costa and proximal 
margin dark streaks. Abdomen above yolk-coloured. New Mexico. Apparently very rare. 
E. bivittata Clem. (= nigroflava Graef) is similar, all white, with thicker dark streaks often showing bivittata. 
knobs on the median and submedian, as well as on their branches before the margin. Little larger than the 
preceding. Texas. Likewise rare. 
15. Genus: Iluvei'Sin Neum. A Dyar. 
Different from Seirarctia by the stunted proboscis, but otherwise similar to it in the venation, shape 
and habitus. More in the west of North America. 
