378 AECTIAD^. 



a postmedial series of small spots angled at vein 4, then incurved, 

 a curved subterminal series of annuli and a terminal series between 

 veins 7 and 3 ; male sometimes with the marks obsolete except on 

 costa and termen ; the tornus slightly produced. 



Hah. Cuba. Exp.^ cS 40, $ 50 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



1 922. Ecpantheria ocularia. 



Bomhyx ocularia, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 564 (1775) ; Xirby, Cat. Het, p. 216 



(part). 

 Ecpantheria cyaneator, Wlk. xxxi.,299 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria columhina, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 110, pi. 16. fF. 3, 4, 7 



(1881). 

 Ecpantheria distans, Oberth. Et. Eut. vi. pi. 17. f. 6 (1881) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 216. 



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

 neck yellow ; tegulae, patagia, and thorax with paired black-edged 

 annulate marks sometimes with greyish centres ; metathorax with 

 pair of blue-black points ; pectus at sides and bands on legs blue- 

 black ; abdomen black, shot with brilliant blue, sometimes with 

 slight orange dorsal segmental lines, lateral series of oblique orange 

 striae, the anal tuft and ventral surface white, with sublateral and 

 ventral series of black points. Fore wing white, the area from end 

 of cell to apex and tornus hyaline with short black streaks on the 

 veins ; large subbasal black-edged greyish spots on costa and below 

 the cell ; antemedial and medial curved series of similar spots and 

 postmedial and subterminal spots on costal and inner areas ; cilia 

 with black striae. Hind wing hyaline, the costal and inner areas 

 white ; three black-edged greyish annuli on costa and usually a 

 black spot on tornal lobe, which is moderately developed. 



2 . Thorax with the blue spots replaced by ocellate spots. Fore 

 wing without the hyaline area; a black-edged discoidal lunule, the 

 postmedial and subterminal series of spots complete, the former 

 bent outwards at vein 5, the latter with wedge-shaped spot above 

 vein 5 ; a terminal series of annuli, the spots above veins 5 and 6 

 elongate and irregular. Hind wing white, with diffused black fasciae 

 in and below cell and on inner area, a subterminal series of greyish 

 black-edged annuli larger towards tornus, six black spots on 

 termen between veins 2 and 7. 



Ab. 1. S • Mesothorax with blue between the annuli; fore wing 

 with slight traces of the hyaline area ; the series of spots smaller, 

 complete postmedial, subterminal, and terminal series. 



5 . Abdomen with dorsal series of orange points ; fore wing with 

 the series of spots reduced ; hind wing with the fuscous streaks 

 below the cell and on inner area much reduced. 



Hah. Colombia, Bogota (Stevens), 1 c? , 2 $ type cyaneator, {Buck- 

 ley) 1 $ . Eccp., d 66, $ 86 millim. Type f $ distans in Coll. 

 Oberthiir. 



