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except at the base and at the tip ; fore borders of the segments fer- 

 ruginous. Femora and fore tibiae blackish above ; femora broadly- 

 fringed; tarsi brown. Fore wings with a diffuse yellow streak, 

 extending in the disk from the base to two-thirds of the length. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



Closely allied to A. simplex, but without submarginal streaks 

 on the fore wings. 



a. Sierra Leone. From Mr. Foxcroft's collection. 

 Genus ECPANTHERIA. 



ECPANTHERIA CYANEATOR. 



Foem. Alba; caput antice cyaneum; thorax anmdis quatuor 

 lituraque vacua angulosa spatioque poslico nigris ; abdomen 

 cyaneum, ochraceo bilineatum, subtus album e guttis cyaneis 

 trilineatum ; pedes cyaneo vittati ; alee semi hyalince ; anticce 

 fasciis sex obliquis e annulis connexis nigris, 4a 5aque valde 

 fiexis, lunula discali nigro-cyanea ; posticce basi nigro-fuscce, 

 lunula discali diffusa fasciisque duabus exterior ibus macu- 

 laribus nigris. 



Female. White, very stout. Head in front and antennae deep 

 blue. Thorax with a black line round the disk of each of the four 

 tegulse, and with a black angular line enclosing a scutcheon-shaped 

 space on the disk ; hind part black, tinged with blue. Abdomen 

 deep blue, with an ochraceous line on each side; base black, partly 

 tinged with blue; under side white, with three incomplete lines of 

 deep blue dots. Legs with deep blue bands ; tarsi and fore femora 

 nearly wholly deep blue. Wings semihyaline. Fore wings with six 

 oblique bands composed of connected black ringlets ; fourth and 

 fifth bands much bent ; a blackish blue lunule in the disk. Hind 

 wings blackish brown towards the base, with two exterior black 

 bands ; first band submarginal, composed of spots and lunules ; 

 second marginal, composed of six dots ; a diffuse black lunule in 

 the disk. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



The markings on the thorax, the connected ringlets of the fore 

 wings, and the dark colour of the hind wings, distinguish this 

 species from E. scribonia. 



a. Bogota. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b. New Grenada. From the Entomological Society's collection. 



