Cat. lep. Ph. Brit. Mus. Suppl. 1


1102 6. Eucerecn decora. (Plate XIX. fig. 3.)
Eucereon decorum, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vi. p. 193 (1910).
Head and thorax fuscous; palpi orange at base and with white
ring at base of 8rd joint; sides of frons with white spots; -back of
head orange; patagia and vertex of thorax with paired whitish
stripes, the metathorax with whitish patch; femora and fore tibize
with whitish streaks; abdomen fuscous, the extremity orange,
sublateral series of white patches. Fore wing whitish tinged with
ochreous brown to the postmedial line, the veins, discal and submedian
folds with blackish streaks ; antemedial line blackish,
excurved in cell and slightly in submedian interspace; discocellulars
black ; postimedial line blackish, slightly exeurved below costa
and at middle and ineurved at diseal fold, below vem 4 bent
inwards to submedian fold below origin of vein 2, then shghtly
sinuous ; subterminal line blackish, excurved and forming a spot
below vein 7, excurved at middle, incurved between veins 3 and 2
and ending at tornus; a fine black terminal line. Hind wing
whitish, the veins streaked with fuscous, the terminal area suffused
with fuscous.
Hab. Costa Rica, Sitio (Schaus), 13, Tuis (Schaus), 1 9;
CoromBia, 1 S$. Kxp. 48 millim.