448 litmus ia mi:. 



white; two narrow antemedial creamy white bands, the 1st curved, 



the 2nd slightly angled on median nervure and bent outwards to 

 inner margin ; a slight streak in end of cell and discoidal striga ; 

 ;i patch on costa above end of cell with a narrow band arising from 

 it, incurved below lower angle of cell, closely followed by a narrow 

 postmedial band incurved below vein 4 ; a narrow subteriuinal band 

 from costa to below vein 5, emitting streaks to termen in the inter- 

 spaces and an oblique line from the postmedial band at vein 3 to 

 termen at vein 2. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a blackish discoidal 

 bar and small postmedial and subteriuinal spots on costa and in 

 suhmedian fold. 



Hah. Mexico {Richie). Exp. 50 niillim. This species is 

 unknown to me, figured from a drawing from type in the U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. 



1911. Ecpantheria niagdalenas, insert: — 



Subsp. 1. 5 . Fore wing with the postmedial series of small spots 

 complete; hind wing with the costal area yellow to beyond the 

 eell interrupted by a dark discoidal bar, a yellow postmedial patch 

 below vein 2 with a curved dark line on it, the yellow terminal 

 band extending to apex with dark spots on termen from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, Tijuca (Wagner), 1 $. 



Subsp. 2. steinbachi, Botlis. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 172 (1910). 



6 • Fore wing with the series of spots more developed and larger, 

 especially the antemedial and postmedial series. 



5- Hind wing with the costal area yellow to beyond the eell 

 where it expands into an oblique irregular wedge-shaped patch 

 with an oblique dark bar on it, a clavate yellow streak in submedian 

 [old, the terminal dark band extending to apex with dark spots on 

 termen from apex to vein 2 varying in size. 



Hah. Peru, El Porvenir 1 §; Bolivia, Buenavista (Stein- 

 bach), type t 6 in Coll. Kothschild. 



1913 a. Ecpantheria pevplexa. (Plate LXIII. fig. 3.) 

 Ecpantheria pevplexa, Sehaus, A. M. N. H. (8) vii. p. 186 (11)11). 



<$ . Head and thorax white, the tegulse, patagia, and metathorax 

 with annulate black marks, those on patagia wedge-shaped; lower 

 part of irons and antenna' Mark ; the t'einoro-tibial joints, extremity 

 of fore tibiae, and the fore and mid tarsi black, the hind tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen blue-black, the base brown with dorsal 

 white streak, the 3rd segment with orange dorsal hand followed by 

 spots on next four segments, lateral orange streaks except at base, 

 the anal tuft and ventral surface white with small sublateral black 

 spots on medial segments and ventral black bars on two terminal 

 segments. Fore wing white with series of black annuli; a subbasal 

 annulus on costa and annulus further from base below the cell ; 

 an antemedial series of four annuli, the one on costa almost Idled 



