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2 . Abdomen with more prominent dorsal bands often filled in 

 with grey ; hind wing with diffused fuscous antemedial band and 

 medial and postmcdial series of conjoined black-edged grey spots. 



Hah. Mexico, Morelos (II. II. Smith), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll., 

 Vera Cruz, type fm Coll. Schaus, Jalapa (Schaus), 1 c? , Guadalajara. 

 E.vp., d 42, 2 '^4 millim. 



Egg. Dyar, Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 308 (1894). 



l^early spherical with flattened base ; diam. '6 mm. ; yellowish 

 with a pearly blue gloss, the surface showing under the microscope 

 Idrge shallow pits. 



Larva. Young : head yellowish, shining ; ocelli black, mouth 

 brown ; warts large, concolorous, the hair-bearing tubercles black ; 

 colour greenish, yellow with faint white dorsal line ; cervical shield 

 small, lens-shaped, brownish ; warts ii. and iii. on somites 3, 4, and 

 12 tinged with orange ; hair fine, brownish. 



Stage 3. Traces of a black subdorsal line ; hair more abundant, 

 mostly short, white, mixed with a few long hairs some of which 

 are black. 



Stage 4. Head bilobed ; the thoracic somites and an area round 

 wart iii. on somite 12 shaded with orange ; feet and ventral surface 

 whitish ; narrow dorsal, lateral, and substigmatal white lines, the 

 last with blackish shade and irroration above and below it ; warts 

 large, the hair-granules black; hair long, stiff, fine spinulose, white 

 and black mixed. 



Stage 5. Head concealed below 1st somite ; pale brownish ; 

 dorsal area whitish grey, dorsal line white ; lateral area dark greenish 

 grey ; ventral area greenish with white substigmatal line ; warts 

 large, pale, the hair-granules black, series iv. tinged with orange. 



Stage 6. Head orange-ochreous, labium and base of antennae 

 yellow ; body grey, mottled with fine white streaks and black dots ; 

 subdorsal line obsolete but the area below it darker ; warts i.-iii. 

 pearly grey, iv. orange ; a broad yellow substigmatal line ; wart v. 

 tinged with orange ; vi. whitish with yellow base ; hair dense, of 

 even length, pointed, bristly, spinulate ; a few long white hairs 

 from thoracic somites. 



Cocoon slight. 



1937. Ecpantheria amulaensis. 



Ecpantheria amulaensis, Druce, A. M.N. H. (6) iv. p. 87 (1889) ; id. Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 378, pi. 75. f. 4 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217. 



S . White ; palpi, frons, and antennae black ; tegulae, base and 

 extremity of patagia and meso- and metathorax with black spots ; 

 pectus and legs black ; abdomen black, with slight dorsal segmental 

 orange lines and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface yellowish 

 with sublateral and ventral black spots. Fore wing with two 

 black spots on basal part of costa, the outer with oblique series of 

 three spots from it to vein 1 ; an antemedial oblique series of three 

 spots from median nervure to inner margin ; a medial band with 

 irregularly sinuous edges strongly angled on median nervure ; two 



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