ECPANTIIETIIA. 375 



Bomhyx cunegimda, Beauv. Ins.^Afr. Am, pi. 22. f. 4 (1824), nee StoU. 

 Eepantheria confluens, Oberth. Ef,. Ent. vi. p. 110, pi. 17. f. 3 (1881). 

 Ecpantheria denudata, Sloss. Ent, Am. iii, p, 212 (1888), 



(S . Head and thorax white ; palpi and frons metallic blue ; 

 antennae black ; tegnlce and patagia with blue-black spots, some- 

 times filled in with white ; pro- meso- and metathorax with paired 

 metallic-blue spots ; pectus metallic blue at sides ; legs white 

 banded with metallic blue ; abdomen metallic blue above, the base 

 brown, dorsal and lateral series of orange spots sometimes connected 

 by slight segmental lines, the ventral surface white with sublateral 

 and ventral series of blue-black points. Fore wing white, with 

 subbasal, anteracdial, medial, postmedial, subterminal, and terminal 

 series of blue -black annuli ; an elongate spot in lower end of cell, a 

 spot just be3'ond discocellulars, and often two beyond lower angle. 

 Hind wing white ; some blackish hair on middle of inner area, and 

 a spot or streak on the tornal lobe, which is large ; often a dis- 

 coidal point and some on termen towards apex and tornus. 



Ab. 1. confiuens. Pore wing with the antemedial and medial 

 series of annuli conjoined, those in cell forming elongate streaks. 



Ab. 2. denudata. Hind wing with the area beyond end of cell 

 hyaline. 



Hah. U.S.A., 2 c^ , 2 5 , New York, 1^,1$, Texas, 1 6 , 

 Georgia, 1 $ . Fxp., S 70, $ 82 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, Can, Ent. xxiii. p. 106 (1891) ; Pack. Ann. N, Y, Acad. Sci. viii. 

 p. 81 (1893), 



Nearly spherical, flattened at base, minutely punctured ; yellowish 

 pearly grey : diam. '8 mm. 



Stage 1. Head light brown, paler in front ; ocelli large, black ; 

 body whitish, somites 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 brownish ; warts concolorous ; 

 bristles black. 



Stage 2. Mouth-parts brown ; body whitish tinged with reddish- 

 brown ; warts i., ii. on somites 4, 5 and 8-10 black ; hair black. 



Stage 3. Head semitransparent brownish ; maxillae reddish ; 

 cervical shield and legs black ; body reddish brown, the dorsal 

 warts on somite 3 and somites 4, 5 and 7-10 in the subdorsal area 

 black ; a white dorsal line ; bristles spiny, black. 



Stage 4. Head brownish, mouth pale ; body reddish orange, with 

 a paler dorsal line ; somites 4, 5 and 8-10 black, the latter on 

 subdorsal area only ; most of the warts black. 



Stages 5-7. Head brown, blackish in front ; ocelli and inner side 

 of jaws black ; labrum and antennae pinkish ; body black, with 

 vermilion bands ; a faint dorsal line. 



Stage 8. Head brownish black, with pale line in suture on vertex 

 and pale lateral spots ; labrum and antennae pinkish ; jaws brown ; 

 cervical shield with pale line ; body velvety black, with vermilion 

 bands between the somites, except thoracic segments ; spiracles 

 dark orange ; bristles spiny, sharp, black : length 85-95 mm. 



Food-plants very various, principally Eupliorhia cyathopliora and 

 Micinus communis. 



Cocoon. A thin network of yellowish silk. 



