376 ARCTIAD^. 



Subsp. quitensis, Oberth. "tt. Ent. vi. p. 110, pi. 17. ff. 1, 2 a881); Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 216. 

 Ecpantheria quitensis, ab. confluens, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. pi. 17. f. 3 (1881). 



Abdomen with hardly a trace of dorsal orange spots ; the spots 

 of thorax filled in with black and also those of fore wing in female. 

 Uab. EcuADOB, Quito, types t J $ in Coll. Oberthiir. 



1919. Ecpantlieria abdominalis. 



ErpaniJieria ahdominalis, Wlk. xxxi. 300 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 216. 

 Ecpantheria jproxima, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 108, pi. 15. f. 9 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria detecta, Obertb. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 15. f. 8 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria detectiva, Oberth. ]&t. Ent. vi. pi. xvii. f. 4 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 216. 

 Ecpantheria annexa, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 108, pi. xiv. f. 4 (1881); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria aramis, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 110, pi. xviii. ff. 2, 3 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 216. 



cj . Head and thorax white ; palpi above, frons, and antennae 

 black ; tegulse, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax with black 

 annuli filled in with greyish ; legs with the fore coxse, ends of 

 femora, and tarsi blue-black ; abdomen blue-black, strongly irrorated 

 with white scales, the hair on dorsum brown and grey, some dorsal 

 orange spots and lateral stripes, the ventral surface white with 

 sublateral and ventral series of black points. Fore wing white, the 

 area from end of cell to termen somewhat hyaline ; subbasal, ante- 

 medial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal series of black-edged 

 greyish annuli, the first three angled on median nervure, the last 

 two bent outwards at vein 5, and the last with the spot above 

 vein 5 elongate ; a terminal series of small black and grey spots. 

 Hind wing semibyaliue white ; a blackish streak on inner area and 

 spot on tornal lobe, which is moderately produced ; some subterminal 

 and terminal black points towards apex ; underside with ante- and 

 postmedial bifid spots on costa. 



Ab. 1. detecta. Hind wing wholly white ; abdomen with pair 

 of orange spots on 3rd segment and irregular dorsal fascia on medial 

 segments with dark spots on it. 



§ . Abdomen with more white irroration on the dark area, 

 a dorsal yellow maculate fascia except at base and extremity, the 

 sublateral and ventral spots in the form of black-edged grey annuli. 

 Pore wing with no hyaline area ; the series of spots much larger; 

 a lunule beyond discocellulars and two spots beyond lower angle 

 of cell ; the subterminal series of spots with their outer half fuscous. 

 Hind wing with fuscous spots in and just beyond the cell, the whole 

 area below the cell fuscous, coalescing with the subterminal series 

 of large conjoined spots ; three small spots on termen between 

 veins 3 and 6. 



Hah. Brazil, Para, Minas Geraes, Eio Janeiro, 1 J , 1 $ type. 

 Exp., (^ 60, 2 78 millim. Types t c? proxima, annexa, detectiva, 

 $ aramis in Coll. Oberthiir ; both specimens figured as aramis being 

 females. 



