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g. Ecpantheria Sennettii, n. sp. 



Female: wings white with brown markings, ol which four suboval 

 ones rest on the costa— the first three being white interiorly; four oval 

 yellow-brown rings behind the internal vein; two double rows of four 

 each in the median interspace, preceded by a large basilar spot; three 

 in the following space — cell 3, and two each in cells 4 to 7; hind wings 

 with a few dusky spots upon their outer margin. 



Head: lower portion of front white, with two confiuent brown spots 

 above it below the antennal bases; collar with two broadly oval rings 

 in yellow-brown; thorax white, superiorly with two markings in some- 

 what of an hour-glass form, not four as usually in Scribonia; posteriorly 

 with two round rings; shoulder-covers each with a marking like the 

 sole of a shoe — all of these in a yellow-brown. 



Abdomen orange above, brown beneath, with a black lateral band, 

 two subdorsal rows of subtriangular white spots anteriorly bordered 

 with black, resting on the posterior margin of the segment and nearly 

 reaching to the anterior; segments fringed with white scales behind 

 these spots and intermediate to them. The long hairs at the basal 

 segment are white laterally and pale brown centrally. Legs white; 

 anterior pair with femora brown on their anterior lower half, tibiae lined 

 with brown interiorly, with a purplish reflection, broadly widening 

 toward the tarsi (broken from the specimen); middle pair with a brown 

 triangular spot on the lower part of the tibia, tarsi brown; hind pair 

 with the upper part of each tarsus above marked with brown. 



Expanse of wings 2.20 inches. 



One example in coll. of 1878. 



Named in recognition of the scientific labors of Mr. Geo. B. Sennett. 



Although with but a single specimen, and that in poor condition, I 

 do not hesitate to separate it from any species known to me, in con- 

 sideration of the yellow-brown markings of the wings and thorax, and 

 the yellow abdomen without the dorsal blue-black spots so conspicuous 

 in Scribonia. 



The Catalogue of Diuristal Lepidoplera by Wm. H. Ed- 

 wards, of Coalburgh, W. Va., is now ready for distribution. It is in 

 many ways a superior work to the same author's Catalogue of 1877. 

 Those wishing to procure the work (no Lepidopterist can afford to do 

 without it) will do well to send their orders at once to Mr. E. T. Cres- 

 son. Box 1577, Philadelphia, Pa. Comparatively few separates have 

 been printed; when they are sold the Catalogue can only be obtained 

 by purchasing the entire volume of the Transactions. 



