372 ARCTIIDJD. 



1913. Ecpantheria decora. 



Ecpantheria decora. Wlk. iii. 693 (1855) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. i. 



p. 97, pi. 10. f. 6 (1884) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria cyaneicornis, Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. vi. p. 314 (1867) ; 



Kirby, Oat. Het. p. 217. 

 Ecpantheria haitensis, Oberth. Et. Ent. Ti. p. 109, pi. 15. ff. 5, 7 (1881). 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi above, sides of f rons, and a bar 

 above it blue-black ; antennse black ; tegulae, patagia, pro- and 

 metathorax with small paired annuli, mesothorax with dorsal an- 

 uulus ; fore coxae, femora above, hind tibite, and the tarsi black, fore 

 and mid tibi?e with annulate marks ; abdomen orange, the ] st 

 segment brown and white, subdorsal blue-black bars conjoined 

 by white lines on dorsum, the anal tuft white with medial and 

 lateral stripes, a lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface 

 white with ventral series of black points. Fore wing with 

 black-edged subbasal spots on costa and below cell, antemedial, 

 medial, postmedial, and subterminal series of spots, the spots on 

 costa rather triangular, the antemedial series curved, the medial 

 series with small spot at upper angle of cell and elongate spot at 

 lower angle with some metallic blue on them, the postmedial and 

 subterminal series excurved at vein 5 ; a termiiial series of small 

 spots, those below apex and above veins 5 and 1 reduced to points. 

 Hind wing white, with blue-black fascia on inner area and patch on 

 tornal lobe, which is large ; underside with triangular black medial 

 and postmedial spots on costa and small spots at base and diseoidal 

 lunule. 



5 . Fore wing with the series of spots larger ; hind wing with 

 four small annuli beyond lower angle of cell ; some small subter- 

 minal ocelli on costal half and four larger ones towards tornua; 

 four small spots on termen between vein 3 and apex. 



Hah. Mexico, Jalapa (Hoege), 1 d" , Godman-Salvin Coll. ; Cuba ; 

 Haiti (Tiveedie), 1 S type. Exp., d" 54, $ 62 millim. 



1914. Ecpantheria persola, 



Ecpantheria persola, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. siv. p. 33, f. 15 (1886) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 217. 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi and frons blue-black, the 

 former white below ; antennae black ; mesothorax with a pair fol- 

 lowed by a single blue-black spot, metathorax with a pair of larger 

 spots ; pectus and fore coxae with blue- black patches ; legs banded 

 with blue-black, the tarsi black with white spots ; abdomen yellow 

 with black at base and sides and on dorsum from 3rd to terminal 

 segment, a ventral series of small spots. Fore wing white, with 

 blue-black subbasal spots on costa and below cell ; an antemedial 

 series angled on median nervure, the spot on costa larger and a pair 

 of points above vein 1 ; a medial series with bar-shaped spot from 

 costa and wedge-shaped spot in lower angle of cell, the series then 

 oblique ; a spot beyond discocellulars ; a postmedial series with 



