380 AECTIAD^. 



Costa Rica (Undenvood), 2 J; Hondukas (Blancaneaux), 1 c? ; 

 Nicaragua (Belt), 1 d , Godman-Salvia Coll. ; Colombia, 1 c? . 

 E^j)., (S 56, 2 86 millim. 



1925. Ecpantheria cunigunda. 



Bomhyx cunigunda, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 344, D, E (1781) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria ganglio, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 107, pi. 13. f. 5 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 EcpantlLcria cayennensis, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 107, pi. 14. ff. 1, 3 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria cayennensis, var. decipiens, Oberth. Et. Ent. tI. pi. 15. f. 6 



(1881). 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi above, a spot on frons, and 

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

 legs with annulate black marks ; abdomen orange with the 1st 

 segment brown, dorsal blue-black bands conjoined by subdorsal 

 expansions enclosing dorsal orange spots, lateral blue-black fascice, 

 the ventral surface white with small sublateral black annuli on 

 terminal segments, anal tuft white. Pore wing white, with black- 

 edged subbasal annuli on costa and below cell ; antemedial, medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal series of annuli, the spots towards costa 

 tilled in with black, the postmedial series bent outwards below vein 

 5 ; a lunule just beyond discocellulars ; a terminal series of small 

 spots. Hind wing white, with fuscous streak on vein 1 and spot 

 on tornal lobe, which is well developed. 



$ . Abdomen with the dorsal bands not conjoined, streaks on 

 subterminal segment uniting in a patch on terminal. Fore wing 

 with the spots larger, annulate towards costa and on termen, two 

 spots beyond lower angle of cell. Hind wing with black-edged 

 greyish medial band from costa to median nervure, where it is con- 

 joined to a streak in lower end of cell and discoidal lunule ; a post- 

 medial spot on costa ; more or less developed black diffused markings 

 on inner area ; typically some small spots beyond lower angle of cell 

 and a subterminal series small towards costa or reduced to spots 

 between vein 3 and tornus; four small terminal spots between apex 

 and vein 3. 



Ab. 1. decipiens. Abdomen with the dorsal bands reduced to 

 subdorsal patches, the subterminal streaks reduced. 



Hah. Cayenne; Surinam; Brazil, Uio Janeiro, Eio Grande do 

 Sul (Ihering), 1 $ , St. Catherina. Exp., cJ 50, $ 82 millim. 



1926. Ecpantheria hari. 



Ecpantheria bari, Oberth. t.t. Ent. vi. p. 108, pi. 14. f. 5 (1881); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria orhicidata, Oberth. tx. Ent. vi. p. 108, pi. 14. f. 7 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria duhiosa, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 108, pi. 14. f. 6 (1881) ; Kirby 



Cat. Het. p. 216. 



d . Head and thorax white ; palpi above, sides of frons, and a 



