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ELYSIUS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
terminal joint. antennae long and densely doubly combed, shorter than those of Ammalo, but longer than 
those of Mazaeras. Body mostly stout, sometimes clumsy, but in the species with large hindwings sometimes 
also slim. Particularly the slender species, deviating considerably from the type, have very long legs. Across 
the base of the abdomen a dense hairy fleece is spread. Forewing with a long cell and an inwardly angled trans¬ 
verse vein, without an areola. Hindwing sometimes with a straight border and a longish anal part. The animals 
keep very much out of the way and are presumably without exception taken at the light. 
ammaloides. E. ammaloides Rothsch. ( ammeloide.s in tab.) (53 i) strongly recalls a small Ammalo helops by its 
colouring, and particularly by the contours of the wings (the border of the forewing being somewhat indented) 
and by the long and strong <$ antennae, but the forewing without the orange spots being often very numerous 
in helops, the abdomen more red than yellow, particularly the base strongly covered with red hair, the abdomen 
otherwise feebler and with duller transverse stripes. Amazon and Peru. 
j ranch I . E. francki Schs. (53 h) is similarly coloured, but of a more clumsy structure, the shape of the wings 
more like that of a Mazaeras, for which reason the species was often described as such a one. Forewing dark 
brown, only at the base of the proximal margin reddish-yellow. Hindwing transparent yellow-reddish, towards 
the margin darker, thinly scaled, but strongly haired; abdominal dorsum in the basal half red-haired, otherwise 
yolk-coloured with black transverse spots. South Brazil, Central Brazil and Bolivia. Bolivians have a darker 
head and already approach the following form. 
soteria. E. soteria Drc. (54 a) is very closely allied to the preceding, of which it is the southern representative, 
from Argentinia; the last 4 joints of the abdomen dark yellowish-brown, the hindwing in the A whiter, only 
the border narrowly yellowish-pink. 
medio fascia. E. mediofascia Joicey. Only the A O known, somewhat larger than the preceding, the forewings red- 
brown, with dark brown and orange transverse striae, at the base of the proximal margin red; below the costa 
near the base an orange spot strewn with red, and one below the middle of the cell, a small one in the cell-end, 
behind the middle of the wing a macular band, and a broad band at the border. Hindwings orange, at the 
costal and proximal margin tinted red. Body orange, head and thorax coloured red, abdomen with a red base 
and black lateral spots. Peru. 
cintjulafa. E. cingulata Wkr. (54 a) is much larger, the thorax spotted black and the abdomen with sharp black 
bands. The orange spots in the forewing are more dispersed, the hindwings of a bright flesh-colour. South 
Brazil (and Jamaica?). 
magnified. E. magnifica Rothsch. (54 a) is still much larger, instead of the orange-yellow spots of the forewing 
there are yellowish-brown shades; hindwings purple; abdomen with such broad black bands, that there only 
remain narrow transverse bands of the ground-colour. Peru. 
proha. E. proba Schs. (54 a). Anterior body and forewings darker, abdomen and hindwings lighter dull 
yellowish-brown; the forewings feebly chased brown. Mexico, Honduras; the figured $ from Misantla. 
pciehi/cera. E. pachycera spec. nov. (54 b) from the Rio Songo in Bolivia is quite unicolorously dark brown, 
only at the cell-end and at the border of the forewing darker shades, the hindwings less yellow, darker brown. 
anschista. E. aeschista Dgn. (54 b) is quite similarly coloured as the preceding, but the body much more slender 
and the antennae much longer, almost to four fifths of the length of the costa, and therefore scarcely congeneric 
with the preceding. Colombia; like pachycera discovered by Fassl. 
hampsoni. E. hampsoni Dgn. (54 e). Forewings of a paler red-brown, with 5 dark transverse bands. Abdomen 
purple pink, its anal part narrowly banded black. Peru. 
superha. E. superba Drc. (54 b). Of the habitus of an Am/a.stus ; forewings similar as in hampsoni, but at the 
base a thick, blackish-brown spot, the abdomen more abundantly and more broadly banded black. Mexico 
and Central America. 
mcridiona- E. nieridiorialis Rothsch. (54 b) resembles the preceding; bands of forewings likewise as in superba, 
but the colouring ochreous-yellow, instead of the black basal spot some dots and the abdomen yellow instead 
of pink, the black bands incomplete. Sao Paulo (Brazil). 
schrus. E. sebrus Drc. (54 b) is much smaller than the preceding, the forewings more dull orange than ochreous- 
yellow, the marginal area proximally bordered by an oblique shade proximally defined by black. Beneath 
the forewings are light yolk-coloured, the marking above only little shining through. South Brazil and Peru. 
liermia. E. hermia Cr. is still smaller (40mm). Forewings yellow, densely speckled brown; a yellow band 
marked with red at the base is connected with a yellow antemedian spot at the proximal margin, distally with 
a crooked brown line; in the cell-end a square spot, a postmedian macular band from the costa to the proximal 
margin before the anal angle; in the distal area some isolated spots and in the apex 2 coherent spots. Hindwings 
semi-diaphanous, the proximal area and marginal band rosy-red. Colombia and Surinam to South Brazil. 
