ECPANTHERIA HALESIDOTA. 347 



Var. Primaries almost wholly brown. Secondaries with a broad 

 blackish submarginal stripe. 



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ECPANTHERIA WALKER. 



Body stout. Proboscis moderately long. Palpi very short ; 

 third joint acuminated, small. Abdomen extending more or less 

 beyond the hind wings. Legs stout ; hind tibia? with minute 

 apical spurs. Wings moderately broad. Primaries much longer 

 than secondaries. Male, Antenna? serrated ; secondaries short. 

 Female. Antenua3 simple, not serrated. 



1. E. scribonia Stall. Macularia Fab., Cram. Ocutatissima Sm. Abb. 

 Chryseis, Grodt. Figured in Stoll. Supp. Cram. V, pi. 41 ; Sm. Abb. 

 pi. 69 ; Nat. Lib. vol. 37. 



Antenna? black ; head white, with a black point on each side 

 near the antenna?. Thorax with ten or twelve black spots, with 

 a pale bluish-white centre, making them appear annular ; the two 

 hinder spots largest and somewhat curved. Ground color of the 

 wings white, the surface of the superiors variegated with black 

 spots, most of which are ocular, placed irregularly towards the 

 base, but having a tendency to form transverse rows externally ; 

 inferiors white, with a few faint black spots behind. Abdomen 

 blue-black, variegated on the back and sides with orange-yellow ; 

 legs white, the extremities with black rings. 



Larva brownish-black, with an orange-red band along each side. 

 The hairs are placed on tubercles alternately nearer the anterior 

 edges of each segment, so that they form a pretty broad band and 

 leave the rest of the body naked. 



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HALESIDOTA WALKER. Lophocampa Har. 



Body stout. Proboscis long. Palpi stout, porrect, not long ; 

 second joint much longer than the first ; third conical, very minute. 

 Abdomen extending for about one-third of its length beyond the 

 secondaries. Legs stout; hind tibia? with four moderately long 



