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*1923. Ecpantheria robusta. 



Ecpantheria robusfa, Dognin, Lep. Loja, p. 50, pi. 4. f. 10 (1801) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. pp. 215, 907. 



J . Head and thorax white ; palpi and frons blue, the latter 

 white below ; antennae blue-black ; tegulae, patagia, and pro- and 

 mesothorax with large, paired, black-edged marks ; metathorax 

 with black-edged blue spots ; legs white spotted with black, the 

 tarsi black ; fore coxae blue ; abdomen with the first two segments 

 black edged with blue, the other segments brilliant blue with 

 dorsal orange bands except towards extremity and oblique lateral 

 marks, the anal tuft white, the ventral surface white with series 

 of black spots. Pore wing white, with the area from middle of cell 

 to apex and tornus hyaline ; black and blue marks at base ; subbasal 

 black-edged wedge-shaped marks on costa and below cell; an ante- 

 medial series of lunules, the one in cell small ; two pairs of medial 

 lunules on inner area ; medial and postmedial black spots on costa 

 and a short streak on inner margin near tornus. Hind wing hyaline, 

 the inner area below vein 2 white with a diffused black fascia on it 

 joined by a patch below origin of vein 2 ; a patch on lobe at tornus, 

 which is slightly produced. 



Hab. EcuADOK, Loja. E.vp. 76 millim. Type f in Coll. Dognin. 



1924. Ecpantheria caudata. 



Ecpantheria caudata, Wlk. iii. 689 (1855) ; Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. 



i. p. 96 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215. 

 Ecpantheria bolivar, Obertb. Et. Ent. vi. p. 107, pi. 13. f. 1 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 214. 

 Ecpantheria mexicana, Oberth. Et. Ent. \^i. p. 109, pi. 15. ff. 1, 3 (1881). 



S . Head and thorax white ; palpi above, at sides, and a bar above 

 frons blue-black ; antennae black ; tegulae, patagia, and thorax with 

 black-edged annulate spots; legs banded with black; abdomen blue- 

 black with brown and white hair at base, a dorsal series of more or 

 less developed orange bands often conjoined to the lateral fascia, 

 ventral surface white. Fore wing white, the area from origin of 

 vein 2 to termen, on which it extends from apex to tornus, hyaline ; 

 subbasal black-edged annulate spots on costa and below cell, a curved 

 antemedial series and medial, postmedial, and subterminal series 

 interrupted on the hyaline area ; cilia chequered black and white. 

 Hind wing hyaline, the inner area white ; the tornal lobe well- 

 developed. 



$ . Abdomen with dorsal series of orange spots and sublateral and 

 ventral series of black spots ending in streaks. Pore wing without 

 the hyaline area, the series of spots complete, three small spots 

 beyond the cell and a terminal series. Hind wing white, with, 

 blackish streak on inner area and spot on lobe, terminal black spots 

 from apex to below vein 3 and a subterminal spot below vein 2. 

 Hah. Mexico, 1 S type {Hoege),! $, Coatepec (Brooks), 1 d 'y 



