Publ. 21. VI. 1930. 
CATHARISA; EUBERGIA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
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E. venata Btlr. ( — consularis Burm., tribunalis Burin.) (119 a, b). the reddish flesh-coloured ground venata 
is speckled in variable intensity with blackish-brown longitudinal striae increasing towards the margin; veins 
distinctly black, the median vein being thickest; lower discocellular not marked. Hindwing the same, but 
only speckled in the marginal area, and only here with black veins; a more or less thick round black spot at the 
cell-end. Abdomen deep blackish brown with reddish hair. $: somewhat less intensely speckled. The black 
larva with green branched thorns lives on Eryngium. Argentina, Paraguay. 
27. Genus: Catliarisa Jord. 
Proboscis composed of 2 feeble threads; palpi short, antennal shaft compressed, with long double 
pectinations, also in the $. Anterior tibiae with short apical thorns, posterior tibiae only with terminal spurs. 
Cross-vein less oblique than in Heliconisa. Neuration of hindwing as in Heliconisa, but with a broader cell 
and less oblique cross-vein. Only 1 species. 
C. cerina .Jord. (118 d). Unicoloured pale lemon-yellow, scantily scaled, margins and fringes somewhat cerina. 
more reddish. Pore wing with a tiny discal spot showing through from beneath. Hindwing with a black, 
white-centi’ed ocellus. Paraguay. 
28. Genus: Eubergia Bouv. 
Intermediary between Automeris and Dirphia\ mostly small, rather variegated species with light veins, 
almost nearer to Automeris. Antennae bipectinate, palpi rather well developed. Neuration on the whole same 
as that of Dirphia, on the forewing 6 and 7 arise from the same base, on the hindwing separately, 5 very near 
to 6. The species are also somewhat similar to the following Hemileucinae by the very feeble discocellular; it 
extends less obliquely than in Heliconisa. Epiphysis of anterior tibiae represented by a thin formation encased 
in a cavity of the tibia, not projecting as in Heliconisa. 
Type: E. caisa Berg. 
E. caisa Berg (= caina Ky., radians Dogn.) (118 d) is a small species which is often mistaken. Thorax caisa. 
blackish, abdomen reddish brick-coloured. Costal margin and disc of forewing reddish-grey; veins varying between 
ochreous-red and brick-red, bordered with blackish on both sides, the ground of the wing between them 
creamy white, interrupted by 2 broad yellowish-white rather straight transverse bands extending almost 
vertically to the inner margin. Between them a large roundish oval discal macula with a black centre. Veins 
of hindwing only in the marginal half coloured like those on the forewing, the discal macula larger. Paraguay; 
Argentina. 
E. boetifica Drc. (= bedoci Bouv.) (118 d) is very similar, but at once discernible by the much more boetifica 
oblique course of the white transverse bands, the anterior one of which forms a very acute angle to the lower 
cell-angle above which the punctiform black discal spot is situate before a yellowish-white spot. Costal margin 
of forewing and disc of hindwing yellowish-white, not reddish-grey; thorax above also white and not blackish. 
It was not easy to trace the synonymy from the very insufficient description by Druce who does not even 
mention the transverse bands. Mr. Talbot had the kindness to substantiate the diagnose from the type. 
Paraguay; Argentina; Southern Brazil; Peru. 
E. argyrea Weym. (118 d), described as Automeris, appears to me a doubtful species, since it might, be argyrea. 
merely a $ of caisa with a larger ocellus in the purer pink hindwing, which, in my opinion, is the only mark of 
distinction from the said species. Discal spot of hindwing larger here, a black ring filled with red. All the rest 
corresponds to caisa, though the somewhat narrower transverse bands are described to be silvery white. 
Sergipe, Southern Brazil. 
E. strigosa M. db W. (118 d) is a somewhat larger species with more elongate wings. Ground-colour strigosa. 
whitish-yellow, margins more intensely ochreous than the veins of the marginal area, which are bordered with 
blackish-grey on both sides; a white parallel stripe besides before the margin; the cell and 2 longitudinal stripes 
behind it as well as a broad submedian stripe likewise blackish, finely longitudinally parted by light. Thorax 
blackish, patagia outside yellowish-white. Abdomen ochreous, with black rings. Brazil, exact habitat not 
stated. The type from the Berlin Museum was before me. 
E. bertha Schs. (116 e). This wonderful species has a black thorax with yellow-edged patagia, a red bertha. 
abdomen which is brownish in the §. Forewing dark grey, with orange veins bordered with light yellow and 
yellowish cellular and submedian folds, with a dark red spot bordered with black at the cell-end. Hindwing 
of $ red, at the base with yellow hair, with a black margin interrupted by yellow veins, with a black ocellus 
centred brownish at the cell-end, with a white central streak. In the $ the hindwing is of a duller reddish colour 
warming into grey towards the margin. Castro, Parana. 
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