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ARCTIAD^. 



Fore wing tinged with pale yellow-brown, with series of grey black- 

 edged spots ; a subbasal series of two spots, four antemedial spots, 

 and a short black streak in cell ; six medial spots, the spot in costa 

 irregular, the one in cell elongate and both joined to the discoidal spot; 

 postmedial and subterminal series of eight and nine spots, and a 

 terminal series of nine more or less elongate spots. Hind wing 

 fuscous black, with the base and veins paler, some whitish subter- 

 minal marks on the veins. 



Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 cS . Exp., S 42, 5 52 millim. 



1907. Ecpantheria heterogena. 



Ecpantheria heterogena, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 15. f. 2 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. 

 Ecpantheria context a, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 16. f. 2 (1881); Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 218. 

 Ecpantheria pellucida, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 282; id. Am. Lep. p. 13, 



pi. 3. ff. 11, 12. 



S . Head and thorax grey-white ; sides of frons blue-black ; 

 antennae with the branches black ; tegulae and patagia with two 

 black stripes meeting at extremity ; legs banded with black ; 

 abdomen dorsally blue-black except at base and extremity. Fore 

 wing brownish white, hyaline from median nervure before middle 

 to termen at apex and vein 1 ; five black-edged spots on costa, from 



Fig. 160. — Ecpantheria heterogena, (^ . \. 



above vein 1, and four on inner margin ; cilia chequered with black. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the inner area clothed with white hair; a black 

 spot on tornal lobe, and sometimes some points on termen towards 

 apex ; the underside with three black-edged spots on costa ; the 

 tornus slightly produced. 



5 . Head and thorax whiter, with brown between the black lines ; 

 abdomen with the extremity black. Fore wing with series of 

 black-edged brown spots ; two irregular subbasal spots ; an ante- 

 medial series of 6 spots, the spot in cell elongate and connected 

 with the medial series, which has conjoined irregular spots on costa 

 and in and beyond cell, then becoming two series each of five spots ; 

 a subterminal series of nine spots, and a terminal series becoming 

 elongate towards apex. Hind wing fuscous black, the apical area 

 from middle of costa to tornus white, with subterminal series of 

 large fuscous spots and terminal series of small spots. 



Ab. 1. contexta. $ . Fore wing with the spots smaller and well 



