LEPIDOPTERA HETEKOCERA. 693 



white at the tip, with brown and white bands at the base, and with 

 a row of blue spots along each side. Legs brown, with white stripes ; 

 tarsi with white bands. Fore wings with six oblique bands of pale 

 brown ringlets. Length of the body 7—8 lines; of the wings 

 20—22 lines. 



a, b. Nevis. Presented by the Entomological Club, 

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



Var. p. Alee posticce vitta apud marginem interiorem interrupta 

 nigra. 



Hind wings with a black interrupted stripe near the inner 

 border. 



a. Porto Rico. From Mr. Cuming's collection. 



8. ECPANTHERIA DECORA. 



Mas. Alba; thorax ocellis novem cyaneis ; abdomen luteum, e 

 maculis cyaneis bivittatum ; apice album ; alee anticce ocellis 

 plurimis angulisque costalibus nigris, litura discali cyanea ; 

 postice caudis sat longis, vitta apud marginem interiorem in- 

 terrupta nigra. 



Male. White. Head blue about the eyes ; vertex with a black 

 band, which encloses a whitish spot. Palpi and antennae black. 

 Thorax with nine blue ocelli ; two in front, then four in a curved 

 band, and behind them three which form a triangle. Abdomen lu- 

 teous, blue at the base, and with two rows of transverse blue spots ; 

 tip white, with four streaks ; the outer pair black ; the inner pair 

 blue, united hindward. Legs with black stripes and bands ; tarsi 

 blue. Fore wings with numerous black ocelli, which are disposed 

 in six oblique irregular bands ; some angular and incomplete ocelli 

 along the costa, and a blue mark on the discal areolet. Hind wings 

 with a black interrupted stripe along the interior border, which ter- 

 minates in a rather long tail. Length of the body 7 lines ; of the 

 wings 20 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



South America. 



A. Abdomen luteo varium. 

 A. Thorax albus. 



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