1864.] 127 



Prothomx white, each half with a hirge round pale slate central spot 

 margined with black. Notum pale slate j patagia margined with black, 

 and a double median black line. 



Primaries pale slate with five very unequal sigmoid dislocated white 

 bands, broadest upon the costa, and margined with black. Third and 

 fourth consist, below the costa, of disconnected dots, and the 5th is en- 

 tirely dislocated on the 5th s. c. Secondaries and abdomen pale Ver- 

 million. The former with three transverse dusky bands of which the 

 inner is the broadest ; the outer consists of four disconnected spots, 

 and the outer margin is lined with dusky cinereous. Primaries beneath 

 with four cost.d yellow spots, of which the second is much the largest. 

 There are two smaller triangular ones on the internal margin, obscurely 

 connected with the costal one by a dark obscure line, the marginal 

 white line is the same as in the upper surface. 



Secondaries : costal half of base yellow, with two costal yellow spots, 

 of which the outer is much the smaller ; the internal half of the base 

 of the wing is pale vermillion, and the wing below the median nervure 

 is slightly tinged with vermillion. Transverse incomplete lines, as on 

 the upper side. 



Legs : femora beneath vermillion, femoral joint and tips of tibiae and 

 tarsi slate and whitish, ringed with black. Abdomen above vermillion, 

 with a dorsal median broad dusky line and a lateral row of small ap- 

 proximate black dots, bounding the pruinose ventral side. 



Length .65. Exp. wings 1.62 inches. 



San Francisco, Cal. (Mus. Comp. Zool. A. Agassiz). 



ECPANTHERIA Hubner. 

 Ecpantheria scribonia Hiibn. 



Fhalcena scribonia StoU, Suppl. Cramer. Pap. Exot. p. 177. PI. 41, fig. 3. (1787). 



oculatissima Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Ga. p. 137. Tab. 69. (1797). 

 Ecpantheria scribonia Hiibn., Verz. jj. 183. (1816). 



Walk., Cat. Lej). B. M. III. p. 689. (185.5). 

 Clem., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 523. (Nov. 1860). 

 Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. Appen., p. 347. (1860). 

 Saunders, Larva. (Descr. and habits.) Proc. Ent. Soc. 

 Phil. ii. p. 28. (1863). Imago, Synopsis Can. Arcti- 

 adaj, p. 22. (1863). 

 Larva, London, Can. W. (Saunders). St. Catharines (Coll. Scudder). 

 N. York (G-rote). Va., Larva. M. C Z. (Lyman). Beaufort, X. C. 

 (Shute). 



