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DESCRIPTIONS OP NEW SPECIES OF ABCTIANAE IN 

 THE TRING MUSEUM. 



By the HON. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Pii.D. 



1. Ecpantheria kennedyi spec. uov. 



o. Similar to m>is Obertb. but larger. Differ.s as follows : pectus black, not 

 wbite ; legs deep steel-blue with si.K narrow whitish bands, not white with nine 

 or tea black bauds ; palpi black, not wbite ; head pale grey, not white ; tegulae 

 grey, not white ; two steel-blue lines start from a common point some distance from 

 base forming a V on each tegula, not two widely separated ]iarallel lines starting 

 from base ; j)atagia steel-blue with uiouse-grey borders, not greyish white with 

 two parallel black lines; thorax grey with two steel-blue j)arallel bauds, not 

 greyish-white with four hair lines. Abdomen, basal three segments and anal 



segment white, rest steel-blue. Forewing semihyaline white, basal one-third, 



inner area to vein 2 and costal area pale grey, not white; spots on costal and 

 inner areas larger, grey, not white, with distinct much broader steel-blue borders, 

 not hair-like black ones. Hiudwing white. 



Hah. Preto, Minas Geraes. 



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~. Ecpantheria mus brasiliensis subspec. uov. 



cJ. iSimilar to /«'/.s mi(s, \mi larger, and ground-colour grey, not wbite; mark- 

 ings more prououuced. 



?. Ground-colour of forewiugs mouse-grey, not white. 



Ilab. Castro, Parana, Brazil, July 1897 (Type) (E. U. Joues) ; Sapucay, 

 Paraguay, October l'JU2 (W. Foster); Oorcovado. 



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3. Ecpantheria magdalenae steinbachi subspec. nov. 



<J. Similar to m. ina<fditli'nae but much larger, and the three discal bauds 

 of dark jialches ou forewings closer together, owing to the innermost one being 



farther from the base. Hiudwing more suffused with orange, tail longer ami 



wider. Abdomen much blacker above, owing to the black bands being wider and 

 longer. 



Hab. Buenavista, E. Bolivia (J. Steinbach). 



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4. Ecpantheria burmeisteri spec. uov. 



S. Nearest allied to kinkelini Bnrm. Pectus brown-grey; palpi bntf; frons 

 black; head creamy white; antennae black; thora.x white, a grey-brown dot 

 on tegulae, two grey-brown spots ringed with black on patagia, two blue-black 

 spots at juncture witli abdomen ; abdomen scarlet, two lines of steel-blue dorsal 

 patches, last segment but one dorsally blue-black, anal segment above Iduisli 



brown, basal segment white, centrally brown. Forewing: basal two-thirds white 



with four transverse rows of brown-grey patches ringed with black, outer one-third 



hyaline with two indistinct similar rows. Hiudwing semihyaline white, two 



minute dusky dots at tornus. 



