450 LITHOSIADJE. 



the patagia with similar wedge-shaped patches, the pro- and meso- 

 thorax with similar oblique bars and the metathorax with blackish 

 spots ; pectus and legs white with brown stripes at sides, the fore 

 and mid tibiae barred with black, the tarsi blue-black, the hind legs 

 with the femoro-tibial joint black; abdomen blue-black, brown 

 towards base, the 4th segment with pair of oblique dorsal yellow 

 streaks dilated in front, the two following segments with V-shaped 

 marks, a yellow lateral stripe, the ventral surface white. Fore wing 

 white with series of annulate black spots rilled in with brownish, 

 the terminal half semihyaline excer.t on inner area ; a subbasal 

 brown spot on costa and oblique mark below the cell ; an ante- 

 medial brown spot on costa and series of four annuli, oblique below 

 the cell ; a medial brown spot on costa, small annulus in upper part 

 of cell, elongate mark in lower angle and oblique series of four 

 annuli below the cell; a dark discoidal mark with white striga 

 on it; oblique postmedial and subterminal series of annuli, almost 

 obsolete on the hyaline area and rilled in with brown at costa. the 

 subterminal spot in discal fold elongate; a terminal series of 

 annuli, obsolescent on inner side. Hind wing white, semihyaline 

 except at margin ; ante- and postmedial brown bars from costa 

 and spot near apex, a streak on inner area to beyond middle and 

 subterminal spot on vein 1. 



$ . Thorax with the annuli not filled in with brown, the meta- 

 thorax with annuli; abdomen without the yellow dorsal marks; 

 fore wing with the terminal area not hyaline and with the annuli 

 well developed, the spots on costa not filled in with brown, a wedge- 

 shaped annulus beyond lower angle of cell, the postmedial series 

 irregular and the spots between veins 5 and 3 displaced outwards; 

 hind wing with the inner half mostly suffused with fuscous, a sub- 

 terminal series of annuli with points below vein 7 and spots on 

 termen between veins 7 and 3. 



Hub. BBAZII., Rio Janeiro, type t 6 in Coll. Rothschild, Petro- 

 polis, typet 2- E*P-> cJ 00, 2 78 millim. 



*1926«. Ecpantheria testacea. (Plate LXIII. figs. 7 d, 8 $.) 



Ecpantheria testacea, Roths. Nov. Zool. svii. p. 173 (1910). 



d . Head and thorax ochreous white ; frons and antenna' except 

 at base black ; patagia with black annuli, the pro-, meso-, and meta- 

 thorax with pairs of small black spots; extremities of tibia? and 

 the tarsi blackish; abdomen blue-black Lrrorated with white, the base 



brownish white, the extremity and ventral surface white, a dorsal 

 series of vellow spots on medial segments. Fore wing ochreous 

 white with series of black annuli, the terminal area stun, what semi- 

 hvaline except towards inner margin with the annuli obsolescent; 

 subbasal annuli below costa and cell ; a curved anteinedial series of 

 nnuli ; a blackish discoidal spot with annulus above it on costa 

 and oblique series of four annuli below it; a postmedial series of 

 nine annuli, oblique below vein 4; a subterminal series of nine 

 annuli, the annulus in discal fold elongate ; a terminal series of 



