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8. Ecpantheria melanoleuca spec. nov. 



d. Pectus, legs, head aud antennae sooty brown; palpi golden buff; tliorax 

 sooty brown, paler margins to tegnlae and patagia ; abdomen sooty brown, a 



testaceous central and orange lateral Viands. ^lAtrewing white, five broad irregular 



transverse bands of sooty brown coalescing blotches, the third and fourth forked 



from vein to costa. Hiudwing white, two dark grey dots at tornus, a subapical 



one, and one in cell. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Bab. Suncho Corral, Santiago del Esterro (J. Steinbach). 



1 <S. 



9. Ecpantheria oslari spec. nov. 



(J. Near albescens Hmpsn. 



Pectus black and white ; inside of tibiae orange ; frons black with central 

 white line ; vertex white ; antennae white above, sooty beneath ; tegnlae white with 

 central black ring ; patagia white with kidney-shaped black ring ; thorax orange 



bull' with central black ring; abdomen orange. Forewing white with seven 



transverse bands of coalescing mouse-grey patches each with a black ring, the 



second and third band from base broken into two just below vein 13. ^Hindwing 



satiny white with a costal band of pale sooty brown to just before termen. 



Length of forewing : 18 mm. 



Hab. Asper Ranch, Brownsville, Texas. 



1 6. 



lu. Apantesis fasciata pyrenaica subspec. nov. 



(J. Differs from fasciata fasciata by its bright crimson pectus and sides of 

 chest and broad crimson collar. The forewing is entirely black except the white 

 basal area, and has four narrow irregular zigzag white bands. The hindwing has 

 the whole inner area yellow, not scarlet as \n fasciata fasciata ; the scarlet border is 

 more than half obliterated, and there is a large extra black patch from costa to 

 vein 2 across centre of wing. 



Hab. Val d'Aras, Spanish Pyrenees, Jnne 1907 (Mousqu^s). 



1 S. 



1 1 . Hypomolis palmeri spec. nov. 



S. Legs sooty grey; pectus scarlet; palpi and frons scarlet; frons, tegnlae, 

 and patagia dark lavender grey ; antennae sooty grey ; thorax dull red in front, rest 



brownisli bronzy olive ; abdomen brick-red. Forewing, costa scarlet with a black 



spot one-fifth from base, pale lavender grey with two black spots along subcostal 

 vein ; a black spot on vein 8 one-sixth from termen, rest of wing bronzy apple green 

 with a brownish lavender grey shade on disc, central two-thirds of inner area to 

 vein 1 plum-black, from this plum-black area an elbowed dark line runs to vein 3 

 from basal end, and two parallel dark lines from apical end to vein 2 ; on the disc 

 is an irregular dark line surrounding the lavender shade. Hindwing salmon- 

 colour. 



Length of forewing : IT mm. 



Hab. San Antonio, West Colombia, 5800 ft., December 1907 (M. G. Palmer). 



2 JcJ, 4 9 ?. 



