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band above it; black ; tegula), patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax 

 with black-edged greyish patches ; legs with bluish-tinged brown 

 patches ; abdomen blue-black, strongly irrorated with white scaler, 

 the hair at base brown and white, dorsal yellow spots on medial 

 segments and a lateral series, the extremity and ventral surface 

 white, some sublateral and ventral dark spots. Fore wing white, 

 the area between end of cell and termen semihyaline ; subbasal, 

 antemedial, medial, postmedial, and subterminal series of greyish 

 black-edged annuli, the spots on costa filled in with black, and the 

 two last series smaller ; a terminal series of small black spots. 

 Hind wing semihyaline white, with blackish fascia on inner area 

 and spot on tornal lobe, which is large ; underside with ante- and 

 postmedial spots on costa. 



2 . Abdomen sometimes with the orange spots expanding laterally 

 into dorsal bands. Fore wing without the semihyaline area ; the 

 spots much larger, the spots on costa not filled in with black ; the 

 subterminal spots large, elongate towards costa, and conjoined in 

 places to the terminal series of large spots. Hind wing with some 

 fuscous below end of cell and spots in and beyond the cell, a sub- 

 terminal series of spots, large towards tornus, and the four below 

 costa with spots beyond them on termen. 



Ab. 1. duhiosa. Hind wing with the whole inner area fuscous, 

 extending into the cell, the subterminal spots filled in with fuscous. 



Hah. Cayenne, type f $ hari in Coll. Oberthiir ; Brazil, Eio 

 Janeiro (DoJirn), 2 c? , 3 $ . E.%y., d 64, 2 '^^ miUim. 



*1927. Ecpantheria orsa. 



Noctua orsa, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 143, F (1777) ; Kii'by, Cat. Het. 

 p. 215. 



c? . White ; antennae blackish ; tegulse, patagia, and thorax with 

 brown annuli, the tegulse orange in front ; abdomen orange with 

 blackish bands, the last two segments with the ground-colour white. 

 Fore wing with subbasal brown- edged annulus on costa and two 

 obliquely placed on inner area ; an antemedial annulus on costa 

 filled in with brown and three annuli on inner area; three conjoined 

 annuli filled in with brown on discocellulars, with a short streak on 

 costa above them, and four annuli below end of cell ; a short post- 

 medial streak on costa, and a curved series of six annuli between 

 veins 6 and 1 ; three subterminal annuli between costa and vein 4 and 

 three points between vein 3 and inner margin ; a series of points 

 on termen. Hind wing with a dark streak on inner margin ; the 

 tornus moderately produced. 



Hah. Surinam. Exy. 50 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



1928. Ecpantheria muzina. 



Ecpantheria, muzina, Oberth. Et. Eut. vi. p. 105, pi. 12. f. 4 (1881) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 214. 

 Ecpantheria alhicolUs, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 105, pi. 12. f. 5 (1881) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 214. 



