692 CATALOGUE OF 



White, stout. Proboscis testaceous. Antennae black beneath. 

 Abdomen above luteous, with two rows of white spots ; base and tip 

 white. Femora and tibiae with luteous stripes ; ungues black. 

 Fore wings with four oblique bands of connected testaceous ringlets. 

 Hind wings with three more indistinct bands of the same ; their 

 hind borders slightly emarginate and undulating, with the inner 

 angle somewhat dilated. Length of the body 9 — 10 lines ; of the 

 wings 30 — 32 lines. 



a. Nevis. West Indies. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b, c. West Indies ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



6. ECPANTHERIA NIGRIPLAGA. 



Alba ; antenna nigrce ; thorax ocellis viridi aut cyaneo-nigris ; 

 abdomen cyaneum, coceineo fasciatum ; tibia nigro fasciatm ; 

 tarsi nigri ; alee anticce maculis albidis viridi-nigro margina- 

 tis ; posticce maculis duabus nigris costalibus, postice caudatis 

 nigroque unimaculatis. 



White. Proboscis testaceous. Antennae black. Thorax with 

 greenish or bluish black ringlets. Abdomen dark metallic blue, 

 with crimson bands, clothed with blackish brown hairs at the base ; 

 tip with white hairs on each side ; under side with tawny hairs at 

 the tip. Tibiae with black bands ; tarsi black, partly white at the 

 base. Fore wings with greenish or bluish black ringlets, whose 

 disks are grayish or dingy white; these are largest on the borders, 

 very small on the disk or towards the tips of the wings. Hind 

 wings with two large black spots on the fore border, hairy, vaulted 

 cylindrically, and each including a tuft along the abdomen, their 

 tails reaching to the tip of the abdomen, and each with a large black 

 elliptical spot. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosse's collection. 



7. ECPANTHERIA SIMPLEX. 



Mas. Alba ; caput antice et subtus palpique nigro-fusca ; antenna 

 nigro-fuscce, subpectinatce ; thoracis discus ocellis nigro-fus- 

 cis ; abdomen supra ochraceum, fasciis basalibus fuscis 

 albisque, lateribus cyaneo maculatis, apice albo ; pedes fusci, 

 albo vittati, tarsis fasciis albis ; alee anticce fasciis sex ocella- 

 ribus fuscis. 



Male. White. Head in front and beneath and palpi blackish 

 brown. Proboscis testaceous. Antennae blackish brown, minutely 

 pectinated, white above. Disk of the thorax with blackish brown 

 ringlets, which vary in size and number. Abdomen orange above, 



