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towards tornus ; hind wing white, a greyish streak at middle of 

 vein 1, a fuscous discoidal sp >t an 1 grey fascia in end of cell and 

 from below it to a snbteruainal maculate band conjoined to four 

 terminal spots between veins 7 and 2. 



Hah. Argentina, Tucumin (Steinbaeh), typef c?» 2 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp., 6 52, $ 62 millim. 



1929. Ecpantheria icasia, insert :— 

 Ecpantheria trinitatis, Roths. Xov. Zool. xvii. p. 173 (1910). 



A form from Trinidad ; male with the subdorsal black spots on 

 abdomen replaced by white bars : female without the dark edges to 

 the white bars of abdomen. Type t 3 > $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



*193o a. Ecpantheria oslari. 



Ecpantheria oslari, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 17-t (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. 

 f. 29. 



3-. Head and thorax white, the dorsum of thorax tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi and irons at sides black ; antennae blackish except 

 the shaft above: tegulae, patagia, and pro- and meta thorax with black 

 annuli ; fore femora and tibia? orange on inner side, the tibiae and 

 tarsi with black spots, the fore coxa? with brown spots ; abdomen 

 orange-yellow with dorsal series of small black spots except at 

 middle, lateral series of small black spots, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing white with series of black annuli rilled in with greyish ; 

 a subdorsal series of three annuli from costa to vein 1 ; an ante- 

 medial series of live annuli, conjoined except at submedian fold ; a 

 medial series of six annuli conjoined except at submedian fold, the 

 annuli below the fold being displaced towards base ; a discoidal 

 patch formed of four conjoined annuli. two before and two beyond 

 the discocellulars, the annulus beyond lower angle of cell minute; 

 a postmedial series of nine annuli conjoined in parts, incurved 

 below vein -i and more strongly defined by black at costa ; a 

 subterminal series of ten annuli, the spot at costa rilled in with black; 

 a terminal series of seven annuli. the four towards apex lunula te-. 

 Hind wing white with blackish spot on costa towards apex; the 

 underside with black spots on costa before middle and towards apex, 



//A. U.S.A.. Texas, Brownsville, Esper Ranch, type *~ c in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Exp, dO millim, 



1936. Ecpantheria suffusa, insert (syn.) : — 



Arachnis ■ Stretch. J, NVY-. Ent. Soc. xiv. p. 124-. pi. xii. f-. IS 



(1906>. 

 I .S.A. 



*1937fl-, Ecpantheria melanoleuca. 

 Ecpantheria melanoleuca, Re-ths. Not. Zcok xvii. p. 174 (1910), i: xviii. 

 pi. 3. f. 17. 



3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown, the last with the 

 ventral surface white except at extremity, with black ventral streak 

 on medial segments. Fore wing white with series of dark brown 

 spots defined by black; a basal patch formed by conjoined spots on 



