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clio. E. clio Pack. (41c). Purely white; median and submedian of the forewing distinctly black like the 
ends of the other veins of the forewing. Abdomen above yellow with a row of black punctiform spots. In the 
jessica. southern parts of the Rocky Mountains, in Arizona, Colorado, and South California, rare. — jessica is a form 
with blackened hindwings from the Glenwood Springs in Colorado, described by Babnes in the year 1900. 
mexicana. E. mexicana Dogn. (41 c) is much smaller than clio, only the black ray on the median, and that above 
the proximal margin being distinct: there are hardly any traces to be noticed of the rays on the veins in 
the apical half of the forewing, and the marginal rays of the hindwings are absent altogether; the latter 
are snow-white. Mexico, rare. 
lb. Genus: Heiraretiii Pack. 
Only one conspicuous species; a white butterfly with dark veins, the larva being very variegated. From 
the preceding species it chiefly differs by the strong, active proboscis. The antennae are rather long-combed; 
the anterior tibiae have inside a short nail, outside a long nail. The species lives in the southern parts of the 
United States, being rather rare. Some African species, such as the cinnamon-coloured 8. jacksoni Rothsch., 
which were brought into this genus, may be better inserted elsewhere. 
echo. S. echo 8m. <£• Abb. ( — niobe Streck.) (41c). White, the veins bordered with an ochreous brown; 
abdomen above spotted black, in the $ tinged orange *). — Larva brown with tufts of golden yellow hair. Sides 
and venter golden yellow, head cerise. Across each segment a broad yellowish-red and a narrow whitish transverse 
stripe. On Sabal palmetto Lodd. , that species of Chaemaerops-palms, from the filaments of which the „sombreros“ 
are made. The butterfly is not common; it only occurs in the southern parts of the United States, in Florida, 
Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. 
17. Genus: Caririarctia Pimps. 
The genus was established in 1901 for an antarctic species characterized by its slender structure, narrow 
forewings, not large hindwings, and doubly combed antennae of the $. Proboscis stunted, the abdomen projects 
far beyond the anal angle. The two first subcostal veins rise separately, the footstalk of 3 to 5 emerges from 
the upper cell-angle. 
alhicancel- C. albicancellata Barm. (42 b). Black, the forewings finely marked ochreous-yellow, the hindwings 
Jata - pink, the marking strongly recalling that of numerous Noctuae: the forewing shows an antemedian and a curved 
postmedian transverse line, a ring spot in the cell and a reniform spot behind the cell, as well as light yellowish 
veins. Hindwing with a rosy-red base and cell-end, and with a costally red, anally yellow postmedian line. 
From Argentina. 
18. Genus: C'lilaimlopliora Berg. 
Likewise antarctic; the sole species differs from the preceding by its shorter, less extended abdomen, 
and by the 2nd subcostal vein anastomoses with the footstalk of the 3rd to 5th, forming an areola. Moreover, 
the forehead has in its middle a continuation in the shape of a truncate cone, and the antennae are plain. 
The type is in the Museum of Buenos Ayres. 
pnfagiafa. Ch. patagiata Berg by its marking recalls the preceding species, but it is considerably smaller 
(40 mm), the abdomen with orange bands, not as in Caridarctia only laterally marked yellow. The forewing 
has the whole proximal half white, with a pink tinge, so that only a distal band extending almost to the middle 
of the wing remains black, showing the veins light and besides a fine, light dentate line. Patagonia. 
19. Genus: Parades Wkr. 
The palpi are longer than in the 2 preceding genera, but entirely hidden in the dense, coarse hair of 
the head. Proboscis stunted. The genus differs besides, from the preceding by the antennae being combed 
in both sexes, by the absence of the accessory cell, and by only the 3rd and 4th subcostal vein having a joint 
footstalk. 
contraria. P. contraria Wkr. (42 b) almost looks like a small, dark Antarctia vulpina (41 d). The orange-yellow 
abdomen is laterally black and has such a broad, black dorsal stripe that the volk-coloured ground-colour is 
only yet contained in 2 narrow subdorsal stripes. Forewings like the thorax dark brown, with a creamy- 
white costal-marginal stripe; hindwings dull white, at the costa brown, at the proximal margin tinged yellow, 
Lower Amazon. 
*) In the first figure by Abbott and Smith, on account of the dusted stripes accompanying the veins of the 
forewing having been exaggerated, the exterior of this butterfly is so very much distorted, that Herm. Strecker being 
familiar with these otherwise very well-done figures did not recognize the figure and once more minutely described the species 
in 1884 as a Spilosoma niche: the latter was then enumerated by Kirby, separated afar from Seirarciia, as Estigmene 
with a 
