690 CATALOGUE OF 



brown ringlets, some of which are tinged with pale metallic blue 

 or green. Abdomen red, clothed with testaceous hairs at the base ; 

 dorsal segments with broad blue bands, which are partly interrupted 

 in the middle, and wholly interrupted on each side. Knees and tarsi 

 beneath metallic blue. Fore wings with five or six oblique bands 

 of small separate brown ringlets; those along the costa are larger 

 and with broader borders, and nearly subquadrate. Hind wings 

 with the inner angle prolonged into a short tail. Length of the body 

 9 lines ; of the wings 25 lines. 



This species much resembles E. cyaneipes, but the spots on 

 the thorax are very different, and the tails of the hind wings are 

 longer and without black spots. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



3. ECPANTHERIA INCARNATA. 



Cinerea ; caput fascia arcuata alba-nigro marginata, palpi rufi, 

 subtus albi ; antennce nigra; thorax vittis quinque nigris 

 duabusque albis ; pectus album ; abdomen cyaneum, rufo 

 bivittatum, subtus testaceum nigro vittatum ; femora vittis 

 rufis nigro marginatis ; tibia albo vittatce; tarsi rufo fasciati ; 

 alee anticce strigis variis irregularibus albis nigro marginatis ; 

 postica basi rufce fasciisque duabus coccineis macularibus 

 obliquis. 



Gray. Head with a curved white black-bordered band in 

 front of the antennae, and with a black border on each side, behind, 

 and towards the mouth. Proboscis pale testaceous. Palpi red, 

 white beneath. Antenna? black, white at the base. Thorax with 

 fi^e. slender black stripes, the middle one and the inner pair abbre- 

 viated in front, accompanied with some white and red hairs behind ; 

 a white stripe on each side widening from the head to the fore 

 wings. Pectus mostly white. Abdomen dark blue, with a red 

 stripe on each side ; under side testaceous, with a black stripe. 

 Femora with red black-bordered stripes ; tibiae with white stripes; 

 tarsi with red bands. Fore wings with various irregular white 

 black-bordered streaks, which are broadest and most oblique along 

 the costa, where the black hind border of them is dilated, and forms 

 a discal mark; these streaks are mostly red on the under side. 

 Hind wings red at the base and with two crimson macular oblique 

 bands, which on the under side towards the costa are white with 

 black borders. Length of the body 7i lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Mexico. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



