EAGRIS. By Dr. C. Aurivillius. 
nottoana. 
sabadius. 
mauritiana. 
aldabrana. 
astoria. 
decastigma. 
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8. Genus: JEagrls Gn. 
Last palpal joint moderately long or short, coniform. Forewing: vein 2 arises near the base of the cell, 
5 somewhat nearer to 6 than to 4, 11 is quite separate. Hindwing: vein 2 a little behind the centre of the 
cell, 5 distinct. The border of the hindwing is emarginated between the veins 4 and 6. -— E forewing with 
a costal fold. Hind tibiae with hair-pencils. First joint of posterior tarsi above hairy. — $ abdomen with 
anal wool. 
Review of the Species. 
A. Hindwing beneath with a dark brown, yellowish-brown, yellow, or pale yellow (but never white) ground¬ 
colour. 
a. Hindwing without any hyaline spots. 
*. E- Wings on both sides with a blackish-brown ground-colour and rather indistinct black discal 
and median spots. Forewing with but two hyaline dots in 7 and 8. Palpi below of a bright ferru¬ 
ginous colour. — $. Wings above dull pale reddish-brown with black-ringed hyaline spots in nearly 
all the areas. Both wings beneath with a whitish marginal line. E. nottoana. 
**. Forewing with numerous hyaline spots and a brownish-yellow, yellow or grey ground-colour. Wings 
beneath without a whitish marginal line. 
§. Hindwing above at the distal margin as dark as the ground-colour or at least with dark markings, 
o. Hind wing beneath at the costal margin in the areas 7 and 8 coloured like the ground (yellow 
or brownish-yellow), but in 7 with 1 or 2 black spots. 
1. Hindwing beneath with a darker (E) or lighter ($) brownish-yellow ground-colour. -— 
E. Hyaline spots of forewing small or partly absent. E. sabadius. 
2. Hindwing beneath with a pure, light-yellow ground-colour. Hyaline spots of forewing 
in both sexes large and numerous. E. astoria. 
oo. Hindwing beneath at the costal margin irrorated with dark, or with a dark costal-marginal 
band. 
1. Wings above with a dark brown ground-colour. Hindwing beneath with a bright yellow 
ground-colour. E. decastigma. 
2. Wings above brownish-grey, in the centre somewhat lighter yellowish. Hindwing beneath 
with a yellowish-grey ground-colour. E. ochreana. 
§§. Hindwing above at the distal margin between the anal angle and vein 2 (or 3 or 4) broadly 
whitish yellow or greyish yellow without markings. E. denuba. 
(3. Hindwing with a large hyaline spot in the discal cell and smaller hyaline spots in 1 b and 7. E. landbecki. 
B. Hindwing beneath with a pure white ground-colour and dark costal-marginal band, without hyaline spots, 
a. The hyaline spot in area 2 of the forewing is large and oblong, its proximal end is situate right behind 
the second spot of the discal cell. Hindwing above at the margin not or scarcely lighter. E. phyllophila. 
(3. The hyaline spot in area 2 of the fore wing is slantingly transverse and situate much more towards the 
margin than the spots of the discal cell and right behind the spot in 3. Hindwing above at the centre 
of the margin broadly light grey. E. fuscosa. 
E. nottoana Wallengr. (= melancholica Mob.) (76 d) is in the male very dark, and the forewing only 
shows two hyaline dots. The $ which is unknown to me is much lighter and in the review above described 
according to Trimen. Cape Colony to Delagoa Bay. 
E. sabadius Gray (= andracne Bsd., hyalinata Saalm.) (76 c, d). In the E the wings above are almost 
monotonously brown with the same black spots as in the $, though much smaller and more indistinct. The 
hyaline spots of the forewing are also the same as in the but small and punctiform or absent, and only 
represented by their black surroundings. The underside is of a bright brownish-yellow (darker than in the §) 
wijh black discal spots of the hindwing. The marking of the $ is to be seen from the figure. Madagascar. — 
mauritiana Mab. and Boull. only differs in the E exhibiting still smaller hyaline dots of the forewing or 
one at all, and in the black discal spots on the hindwing beneath being likewise minute or absent. Mauritius. 
Madagascar. aldabrana Fryer is somewhat smaller and lighter than the nomenclatural form, but otherwise 
it corresponds with it. Isle of Aldabra. 
E. astoria Holt. ( = epira Karsch, plicat-a Btlr.). Forewing with two, in the E separated, in the $ united 
hyaline spots in the discal cell and hyaline spots in 1 c to 9 and 11; of these spots 2 are in 1 b, being situate 
in a straight line with those in 2 and 3, whilst those in 4 and 5 are minute or sometimes absent. 
E. decastigma Mab. (76 d) is easily recognizable by the description in the review and the figure. Sierra 
Leone to Gabun. 
