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tufb at extremity ; pectus fuscous and blue at sides ; le^s white 

 banded with black, fore coxae with blue patches ; abdomen crimson 

 banded with blue-black, the 1st segment brown, lateral series of 

 black spots, the ventral surface white with sublateral and ventral 

 black spots, anal tuft yellowish, blue at middle and black at sides 

 above. Eore wing white, tinged with pale brown ; curved subbasal, 

 antemedial, medial, postmedial, subterminal, and almost terminal 

 series of small black spots; three spots just beyond the cell. Hind 

 wing brownish white, with two black spots on costa, small discoidal 

 and subapical spots, and black patches on inner area near base and 

 on tornal lobe, which is very large. 



$ . Wings rather darker ; fore wing with whitish centres to 

 the spots ; hind wing with subterminal series of whitish-centred 

 spots. 



Hah. Jamaica (Oosse), 4 cS type, 1 $ type ohesa. Exp., d 46, 

 2 80 millim. 



1909. Ecpantheria laeta. 



Ecpaniheria lata, Wlk. iii. 696 (1855) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217. 

 Ecpantheria hraziliensis, Oberth. Et. Ent, m\. p. Ill, pi. 19. ff. 2, 3, 6 



(1881). 

 Ecpantheria prcsclara, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. Ill, pi. 19. f. 1 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 217. 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and antennae blue- 

 black ; neck yellow ; tegulse, patagia, meso- and metathorax with 

 black patches, elongate on patagia and mesothorax ; pectus black at 

 sides ; fore coxae and bands on legs blue-black ; abdomen orange, 

 with dorsal series of blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, the 

 ventral surface white with ventral black points and bands at base 

 and extremity. Tore wing white, with two subbasal black-edged 



Fig. 161. — Ecpantheria Iceta, c^. \. 



olive-brown spots ; an antemedial curved series of small spots ; a 

 medial series of large spots, slightly angled in cell ; a discoidal bar ; 

 a postmedial series of small spots, the one on costa larger, angled at 

 vein 4, then incurved ; a subterminal series of large irregular spots, 

 those above veins 3 and 4 smaller, the one below vein 2 conjoined 

 to one of the terminal series which towards apex form short streaks 

 on each side of the veins. Hind wing : costal area white and 



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