Pull. 11. TIT. 1925. 
EPHESTRIS; CYANOHYPSA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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quadrima- 
culatu. 
melanch- 
roia. 
maculi- 
frons. 
tanmra. 
albvplaga. 
C. dioptis Fldr. (60 g). For this species Felder established the genus Chamesthema. 3 similar to dioplis. 
those of the preceding species, abdomen above with a white longitudinal line and below with broad whitish 
curls; head and patagia partly white. Forewing with a white longitudinal area behind the cell and a wedge- 
shaped longitudinal stripe in the cell. Hindwing with a white, black-veined central area, which may be very 
much darkened. Discernible from the GS of C. collaris Drury (60 h), in which also the forewing may be brightened 
up behind the cell, by the white dorsal abdominal line. From Venezuela to Brazil and Bolivia. 
C. quadrimaculata sp. nov. (60 h). $ body as in albiapex, wings varying from black to brown, all the 
fringes white. The apices of all the wings with a white semicircular spot. Sometimes above indistinctly, beneath 
more distinctly a white postcellular spot on the forewing. Type in the Berlin Museum. Bolivia (type); Venezuela; 
Rio. The species very much resembles the Geometrid Mdanchroia cephise Cr. 
C. melancliroia Bsd. (61 a). Body black, head cprite ochreous, thorax only in front. Wings bluish 
black, in each cell with white marginal spots growing longer towards the costa of the forewing. Mexico to 
Panama. 
C. maculifrons Wkr. (61 a). Body above yellow, beneath white. Wings orange or yellow, the forewing 
with a black apical area in which there is a light spot behind the discal cell. Costal and distal margins of the 
hindwing black. All the wings with white longitudinal streaks at the margin. Mexico to Panama. 
C. tamara sp. n. (61 a). $ more darkened than the preceding, the white marginal streaks are absent, 
the slanting subapical spot of the forewing is larger, all the veins broadly marked black. Type in the Berlin 
Museum. Upper Amazon River (Pebas; Sao Paulo de Olivenca). 
C. albiplaga sp. n. (61 a). Body black with an intense blue lustre, head laterally and collar partly 
with dispersed ochreous or red scales. Wings black, with a blue reflection, the forewing with a large hyaline- 
white subapical spot showing the veins in the finely, in the $ more broadly marked with black. Hindwing 
with traces of a corresponding spot, particularly beneath. Type (<$ and $) in the Berlin Museum, $ in the 
Tring Museum. Colombia. —• In the habitus it reminds one of the form alicia Bat. of the Erycinid Esthemopsis 
clonius (Vol. V, p. 673). 
C. eucyanoides sp. n. (61 a). In the habitus similar to Esthema. Body black with a blue lustre, dots 
on the head and thorax, two lateral lines and the ventral side of the abdomen bluish-white. Wings bluish- 
black, the forewing with a whitish hyaline subapical band of 4 or 5 spots, on the centre of the proximal margin 
anteriorly as far as the cell four similar longitudinal streaks above each other. Hindwing with a white, black- 
veined central area extending to the anal margin. Type (3 and $) in the Berlin Museum. Upper Amazon River 
(Pebas, Sao Paulo de Olivenca). 
C. approximata sp. n. $ similar to eucyanoides , abdomen beneath only with the last three rings white. 
The forewing only with a subapical band the anterior spots of which are larger than those behind. Traces of 
white longitudinal lines above the tornus. Hindwing uni-coloured, with lighter internerval stripes which terminate 
before the margin and are almost bluish-white there. Beneath these stripes are more distinct. Type (d) in 
the Berlin Museum. Cayenne. 
C. uraneides Btlr. (61 c) resembles the Erycinid Tmetoglene dodone G. & S. (Vol. V, p. 654). In its uraneides. 
size, wing-contours and scheme of marking like approximata, but all the above-mentioned internerval stripes 
are bluish-white: in the forewing two longitudinal stripes in the cell, two longer ones and a shorter one behind 
the cell. Hindwing all white, except the veins, costal and distal margins being black. Abdomen above with 
a white dorsal line, beneath all white. French Guiana. It strikingly resembles the Erycinid Uraneis hyalina Btlr. 
(Vol. V, t, 138 e). 
eucycinoi- 
des. 
approxima¬ 
ta. 
10. Genus: Epkestris Hbn . 
Veins chiefly agreeing with those of Calodesma, but the 1st radial of the forewing rises before the centre 
of the distance between the 1st and 2nd cubitus; the latter two veins converge from their origin towards the 
margin. Only one black and yellow species: 
E. melaxantha Hbn. (61 b). Both sexes agreeing in colour and marking which is to be seen from the melaxantln 
figure. Brazil. 
11. Genus: Cyanohypsa Giac. 
On the whole in the veins similar to the two last genera, distinguished from them and all the ether 
Pericopinae by the 2nd median branch in the hindwing rising midway between the 1st and 3rd, scarcely nearing 
the 3rd. 
C. stefanelH Giac. (61 a) is bluish-black, the collar, terminal tufts of the thorax and abdominal stefanelli. 
apex ochreous-yellow. Wings steel-blue, the forewing in the centre with two round white spots below each 
other. Peru, Argentina, Paraguay. 
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