ECPANTHERIA, 375 



Bomhyx cuncgitnda, Beauv. Tns.^Afr. Am. pi. 22. f. 4 (1824), nee Stoll. 

 Ecpantheria conjluens, Obertb. Er. Ent. vi. p. 110, pi. 17. f. 3 (1881). 

 Ecpantheria denudata, Sloss. Ent. Am. iii. p. 212 (1888). 



S . Head and thorax wlaito ; palpi and frons metallic blue ; 

 antennic black ; tegnla) and patagia with bbic-black spots, some- 

 times filled in with white ; pro- meso- and metathorax with paired 

 metallic-blue spots ; pectus metallic blue at sides ; legs white 

 banded with metallic blue ; abdomen metallic blue above, the base 

 brown, dorsal and lateral series of orange spots sometimes connected 

 by slight segmental lines, the ventral surface white with sublateral 

 and ventral series of blue-black points. Fore wing white, with 

 subbasal, anteraedial, medial, postmedial, subterminal, and terminal 

 series of blue-black annuli ; an elongate spot in lower end of cell, a 

 spot just beyond discocellulars, and often two beyond lower angle. 

 Hind wing white ; some blackish hair on middle of inner area, and 

 a spot or streak on the tornal lobe, which is large ; often a dis- 

 coidal point and some on terraen towards apex and tornus. 



Ab. 1. conjluens. Fore wing with the antemedial and medial 

 series of annuli conjoined, those in cell forming elongate streaks. 



Ab. 2. denudata. Hind wing with the area beyond end of cell 

 h5'aline. 



Hah. U.S.A., 2 J , 2 $ , New York, 1 J , 1 $ , Texas, 1 6 , 

 Georgia, 1 $ . Exp., S TO, $ 82 millim. 



Egg- Dyar, Can. Ent. xxiii. p. 106 (1891) ; Pack. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. riii. 

 p. 8i (1893;. 



Neai'ly spherical, flattened at base, minutely punctured ; yellowish 

 pearly grey : diam. -S mm. 



Stage 1. Head light brown, paler in front ; ocelli large, black ; 

 body whitish, somites 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 brownish ; warts concolorous ; 

 bristles black. 



Stage 2. Mouth-parts brown ; body whitisb tinged with reddish- 

 brown ; warts i., ii. on somites 4, 5. and 8-10 black ; hair black. 



Stage 3. Head semitransparent brownish ; maxillae reddish : 

 cervical shield and legs black ; body reddish brown, the dorsal 

 warts on somite 3 and somites 4, 5 and 7-10 in the subdorsal area 

 black ; a white dorsal line ; bristles spiny, black. 



Stage 4. Head brownish, mouth pale; body reddish orange, with 

 a ])aler dorsal line ; somites 4, 5 and 8-10 black, the latter on 

 subdorsal area only ; most of the warts black. 



Stages 5-7. Head brown, blackish in front ; ocelli and inner side 

 of jaws black ; labrum and antenna) pinkish ; body black, with 

 vermilion bands ; a faint dorsal line. 



Stage 8. Head brownish black, with pale line in suture on vertex 

 and pale lateral spots ; labrum and antenna) pinkish ; jaws brown ; 

 cervical sliield with pale line ; body velvety black, with vermilion 

 bands between the somites, except thoracic segments ; spiracles 

 dark orange ; bristles spiny, sharp, black : length 85-i)5 mm. 



Food-plants very various, principally Eupliorhia cijathoidtora and 

 Ricinus comrmcnis. 



Cocoon. A til in network of yellowish silk. 



