EPIA. By Dr. W. Schaus. 
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E. picta Schs. (89 a). Male: Body rufous; palpi in front yellow on second joint; antennae light brown, picla. 
the shaft irrorated with white; collar mottled behind with white hairs; a few white irrorations on tegulae. 
Forewings: base of costa rufous, below it a lilacine shade mottled with brown; basal half of inner margin light 
brown; a yellowish streak below cell and vein 2 to near termen cut by the rufous lines; a rufous streak below 
this broadening to inner margin on outer half; a dark brown shade in cell antemedially, extending as a dull 
grey shade between veins 2 and 3 to termen; above this in cell and between veins 3 and 4 a lilacine grey shade 
suffusing with a similar broad outer shade fi’om costa, leaving a triangular brownish shade on costa within the 
postmedial line; antemedial line outcurved, wavy, dark red; a dark medial line below vein 2; post-medial 
slightly lunular, dark red from veins 5 to 7, and below vein 2 fine, greyish and hardly perceptible on the pale 
portion of wing; a fine deeply lunular outer dark grey line; some subterminal rufous spots, and a small white 
spot between veins 2 and 3; termen shaded with dark grey from below vein 6; the tornus rufous. Hind wings 
rufous brown, becoming dark red at anal angle; the two outer lines fine, fuscous, separated by a yellow shade 
near inner margin; inner margin fuscous brown with white irrorations. Forewings below pale reddish, the inner 
margin broadly yellowish white; the costa ochreous yellow; postmedial line straight, fuscous brown and thick, 
from costa to vein 4; outer line finer, lunulate; apex yellow; termen dark rufous. Hindwing below purplish, 
the base and costal margin rufous; postmedial line almost straight, the outer line finer, lunular. Female: Body 
and wings paler rufous; abdomen with darker subdorsal lines. Fore wings: a greyish purple shade between 
veins 2 and 4 from cell to termen; white irrorations on costal margin and broadly at apex; costa ochreous 
yellow; a faint fuscous postmedial line, finely lunular and hardly inbent. Hindwings: anal angle broadly dark 
red; fuscous lines only visible near inner margin; whitish shadings medially on inner margin. Forewings below 
dark grey, becoming brownish yellow at apex and terminally; the costa dark ochreous yellow; traces of a fine 
dark postmedial line; outer line fine, lunular, well defined to near inner margin. Hindwings below dark brown, 
the basal half shading to light brown terminally, the disc heavily irrorated with white: postmedial line very 
faint; outer line fine, lunular, well defined. Expanse: Male, 45mm; female, 60 mm. Antioquia, Colombia 
(elevation, 5 000 feet). 
E. madeira Schs. (89 a). Near vulnerata. Male: Head reddish brown; palpi in front buff. Thorax madeirci. 
lilacine brown. Abdomen reddish brown. Forewings chiefly grey, the inner margin below vein 2 pale reddish 
brown; costa reddish brown streaked with white; a yellowish white space at base limited by a reddish brown 
line, from costa at base to vein 2 near cell, sharply angled and inbent to submedian; basal third of inner margin 
below submedian yellow; geminate medial and postmedial fine lines from vein 2 to inner margin; a black line 
on discocellular followed by a similar oblique streak to costa, edged anteriorly by an olive buff shade; a fine 
dark outer dentate line being part of the geminate postmedial line; faint subapical yellowish shading; a sub¬ 
terminal white spot between veins 3 and 4, and a similar point below veins 3. Hindwings pale reddish forming 
a darker subterminal shade, which is more pronounced and reaches termen from vein 2 to inner margin; a fine 
fuscous outer line shaded on either side with yellow. Forewings below pale roseate buff, the costa and space 
above vein 4 reddish brown, crossed by a short black streak on discocellular; a postmedial inbent black line 
and a lunular outer line; the subterminal white spots as above. Hindwings below roseate, the costal margin 
reddish brown; the postmedial and outer lines faint; a dark streak below cell and vein 2 from base to postmedial 
line. Expanse : 38 mm. Rio Madeira, Brazil. 
E. intricata Drc. * ‘Male: Head, antennae, collar, tegulae, thorax, and abdomen pale olivebrown. Forewings intricalu. 
pale olive-brown, crossed from the costal to the inner margin by two rather wide dark olive-brown bands, which 
are united just below the cell; the base and the apex of the wing olive-brown; a greyish-white marking on the 
outer margin above the anal angle and a black dot at the end of the cell; the cilia yellowish brown: hindwings 
pale yellowish fawn colour, with some dark markings on the inner margin. Expanse: l 3 / 4 inch. S. E. Peru: 
Santo Domingo, 6 000 feet.” 
E. casnorsia Drc. (89 a). Male: Head light vinaceous cinnamon. Collar pale greenish buff. Thorax dark casnonia. 
olive buff. Abdomen above vinaceous fawn. Forewing cream buff; inner margin except at base suffused with 
fawn colour to median and vein 3; lines army brown; antemedial outcurved, vertical below vein 2; a faint- 
paler parallel medial line bifurcating below vein 2 and enclosing a round spot of ground colour, its outer edge 
really part of inner postmedial line; postmedial double, vertical; termen with dark suffusions especially between 
veins 4 and 5. Hindwing cinnamon buff with a greenish tinge, almost cinnamon at anal angle; medial line 
vertical, faint, inbent at inner margin, the postmedial parallel with it, army brown well defined. Wings below 
largely isabella colour, the outer lines well marked, wider apart; anal space of hindwing partly white. Female: 
Forewing to postmedial, also apex, orange cinnamon; antemedial and postmedial lines hardly traceable, between 
them below cell a dark purple shade; termen from vein 6 to inner margin, also space between postmedial lines, 
suffused with dark purple; small cream coloured spots on outer edge of line between veins 3 and 4, and 5 and 6. 
Hindwing orange cinnamon, the lines black. There is considerable variation especially in the male which 
sometimes has the forewing drab grey. Expanse: Male 34 mm; female 44 mm. Guatemala to Costa Rica. 
E. lebethra Drc. Male: Forewing: costal margin to postmedial olivaceous, below it from base of inner Icbelhra. 
margin a broad creamy white fascia, also to postmedial, edged behind by a fuscous line, the triangular space 
