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the basal area greyish-brown and with a similarly coloured zigzag-shaped band ending at the upper radial 
vein and being on both sides bordered by a light line, and with 2 brown spots. Abdomen greyish behind, but 
with a whitish anal brush. Expanse of wings: $ 27, $ 33 mm. Alu (Salomons). 
E. fulvistriata Swh. (44 f). Both sexes bright orange-ochreous, with darker, orange, internerval streaks, julvistricrfa. 
light yellow veins and two indistinct light yellow transverse lines, both of which are distally convex. Abdomen 
with white segmental lines, the last segment all white, anal brush grey. Legs with whitish tarsi. Under surface 
of wings uni-coloured light ochreous. Expanse of wings: 32, $ 39 mm. St. Aignan Island, Louisiads. -— It 
also occurs in the Key Islands and has sometimes an expanse of only 26 mm. 
E. arclada Swh. (44 c). $: much larger and darker than E. fvlvistriata, the anal apex of the abdomen arclada. 
is narrow white, the legs are orange-ochreous without white tarsi; the orange streaks of the forewings are similar, 
but the hindwings are much darker than the forewings, of a vermilion-orange colour. Expanse of wings: 54 mm. 
Woodlark Island. 
E. faventia Dree. body and legs dark brown, abdomen black with a white anal brush. Forewing faveniia. 
uni-coloured dark brown, hindwing chrome-yellow with a black base. Expanse of wings: 43 mm. Fergusson 
Island. 
E. ochreata Wkr. <$: yellow. Forewing for the greatest part ochreoiis with a deep ochreous spot near odire.aia. 
the base of the posterior margin. Hindwing towards the posterior margin with long hair. Expanse of wings: 
31 to 41 mm. Ceram. 
E. rnirma Druce. Body and extremities brown. Forewing light brownish, somewhat doe-coloured; mirma. 
black are: a spot near the base, and one at the end of the cell, as well as two curved transverse lines. Hindwing 
yellowish-white. Expanse of wings: 37 mm. Timor. Certainly closely allied with E. servilis Wkr. 
E. drucei Swh. (titania Druce nom. praeocc.) (44 i). light yellow, forewing with 3 sinuate chrome- drucei. 
yellow bands. darker and without the transverse bands. Expanse of wings: <$ 24%, $ 34 mm. Trobriand 
Island, Kiriwini. 
E. leptotypa A. J. Trnr. White, palpi of A and anal brush of $ ochreous. Forewing with a narrow, lepMypa. 
interrupted, ochreous-brownish, curved band from 5 / 6 of the costal margin to 5 / 6 of the posterior margin, which 
is almost entirely blurred in the $. A 23, $ 32 mm. North Queensland, in July; larva on Acacia aulococarpa. 
E. ericydes A. J. Trnr. $: head, thorax and palpi light ochreous, antennae dark; abdomen black, ericydes. 
anal brush whitish ochreous. Legs ochreous. Forewing black with a light yellow apical patch, where also the 
otherwise black fringes are yellow. Hindwing light ochreous, in the basal third black. $ 46 mm. North Queens¬ 
land, in May. 
E. deficita Wkr. (43 d). Both sexes light doe-coloured, beneath lightest. Thorax with long erect deficita. 
hair. Abdomen black, in the $ with an ochreous, in the $ with a whitish anal brush. Forewing with a small, 
indistinct, whitish cliscocellular spot. Hindwing with a brownish hue not extending to the margin; costal 
band and fringes sometimes yellowish. Expanse of wings: 57 to 65 mm. Australia: Queensland. 
E. epaxia Trnr. (J: 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous. Antennae ochreous-whitish. Abdomen epaxia. 
whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish; anterior tibiae and tarsi densely covered with long, ochreous hair. Forewing 
triangular, costal margin very much curved, apex rounded, margin curved and oblique; light ochreous, speckled 
with a brighter ochreous tint except two broad bands which are speckled with dark brown scales; the first 
of these bands at 1 / i of the length of the forewing and not quite reaching the costal margin nor the posterior 
margin, the second being subterminal and ending in the anal angle, but not' quite reaching the costal 
margin; fringes ochreous. Hindwing with a roundish margin, light ochreous, of which colour are also the fringes. 
[Type a little rubbed off!]. North Queensland: Kuranda; in July. 
E. epidela Trnr. (45 h). $ 25, $ 35 to 45 mm. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen ochreous. Antennae epidela. 
light ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewing triangular, in the $ more long-stretching. Costal margin 
very much curved with a rounded apex and an obliquely rounded margin; bright ochreous, in the $ ochreous 
or pale ochreous; a pale transverse line near the base; a broader, distally curved transverse line at 1 / s and 
a similar line at 3 / 5 of the length of the wing, which lines are extinct in the $ (45 h); fringes uni-coloured. 
Hindwing with a rounded margin, light ochreous, in the $ coloured like the forewing; fringes coloured the same. 
North Queensland, Kuranda; in August-October and April-May. — Allied to E. varians Wkr. 
E. euryzona Loiver. rf: dark ochreous-orange. Antennal pinnae darker. Forewing speckled with euryzona. 
fine ochreous-whitish scales, costal margin lighter ochreous, two transverse bands one of which is antemedian, 
