1T4 ZYG^NIDTE AND BOMBYCID.E 



BOMBYCIDH. 

 AKCTIIDai. 

 Genus ECPANTHERIA. Hubner. 



" Fore wings about one-third longer than the hind wings, with the 

 subcostal vein having a single marginal branch from the cell, and an- 

 other midway between the post-apical and inferior nervules ; the latter 

 arises a little exterior to the discal vein, and the former midway between 

 the apical nervulet and the second marginal. The median vein is 

 four-branched with the posterior moderately remote from the penulti- 

 mate. Hind wings as long as the abdomen, with the interior some- 

 times dilated and rather caudate, neuration arctiiasform. 



•' Head small, depressed, smooth ; without ocelli. Face moderate, 

 retreating. Eyes rather small. Antennas serrated in the $ , simple in 

 the ? . Labial palpi short, not extending beyond the clypeus, rather 

 stout and porrected ; middle joint short, terminal joint very small. 

 Tongue rather thick, slightly longer than the anterior coxae. 



" Body stout. Thorax globose, smooth with scales. Patagia 

 erected, overlapping the front of the mesothorax, nearly square. Breast 

 and abdomen smooth. Legs thick and smooth, the tibial spur of the 

 fore legs moderate, hind tibiae with two minute apical spurs." 



Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci: Phil., p. 523. (i860.) 



This genus has but one representative in the United States, though 

 it is numerously represented in the more tropical portions of America. 

 It is unknown in Europe. 



l.-ECPANTHERIA SCRIBONIA. (Pi. 7, fig. 20 5 , 21 ? ) 



P/ialcena scriSoma, Stoll, Supp., Cramer, Pap. Exot. , p. 177, p. 41, 



fig- 3- (1787-) 

 Phalmna oadalissima, Smith, N. H. Lep. Ins. Georgia, p. 137. 



tab. 69. (1797-) 

 Bombix cunegunda, De Beauvois, Ins. Afriq. et Amer. (1805.) 

 Ecpantheria scribonia, Hubner, Verz., p. 183. (181 6.) 

 Ardia scribonia, Ins. Inj. Veg., p. 241. (184 1.) 



