170 INSECUTOR INSCITI^ MENSTRUUS 



Halisidota costistrigata, new species. 



Male. — Palpi scarlet with black spots at base of second and 

 third joints. Head, collar, and throat scarlet; patagia black 

 with a central white line extending over shoulders. Abdomen 

 black ; a dorsal scarlet tuft at base ; last three segments pale 

 scarlet the first crossed by a black line; a lateral white line. 

 Legs black with broad scarlet bands; tarsi scarlet with black 

 rings. Wings black faintly tinged with blue; cilia tipped with 

 white; fore wings with a short white line below costal vein 

 at base. Wings underneath duller, without the white costal 

 line. 



Expanse 36 mm. 



Habitat. — Caldas, Province Minas, Brazil. 



Type.— Cat. No. 24916, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



Veins 6 and 7 on hind wings stalked. 



Very much like H. diikinfieldia Schaus which has no white 

 streak at base of costa and also has veins 6 and 7 on hind 

 wing from upper angle of cell. 



Ecpantheria jaguarina, new species. 



Male. — Palpi blue black, fringed with white below. Frons 

 fuscous blue, vertex white. Collar white with large gray 

 spots edged with black. Thorax white with paired black-blue 

 lines in front, and similar spots posteriorly, also a medial 

 dorsal spot ; patagia whitish gray suffused with fuscous in 

 front, outlined with blue black and with long white fringe. 

 Abdomen above blue black, underneath white with black 

 transverse line at base and terminally ; a broad dark orange 

 lateral line edged below with blue black. Fore wings white, 

 the spots where not otherwise stated gray edged with black ; 

 a subbasal quadrate spot on costa, and an obliquely ovate spot 

 below cell ; an antemedial spot on costa oblique and outangled, 

 its edging inangled suffusing with a very oblique outbent line 

 in cell which in turn connects with the uppermost of three 

 antemedial spots inbent to inner margin ; a medial triangular 

 spot on costa, its apex entirely blue black in end of cell above 

 a thick black horizontal streak ; four medial quadrate spots 

 from below streak inbent to inner margin; discocellular in- 



