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above bright red ; each segment with a deep blue band, which 

 appears deep black in some aspects ; under side with a middle row 

 of transverse black spots, and two lateral rows of black dots. Femora 

 and tibiae with black stripes; tarsi black, with white bands towards 

 the base. Wings slightly tinged with sky-blue. Fore wings with 

 six oblique bands of pale brown ringlets ; the three outer bands 

 much more regular and complete than the three inner bands ; a 

 cruciform mark in the third band composed of four ringlets. Hind 

 wings with some blackish spots along the fore border, and with two 

 or three blackish ringlets on the hind border. Length of the body 

 10 lines ; of the wings 18 lines. 



13. ECPANTHEKIA L&TA. 





Alba ; caput supra f us cum ; palpi et antennae nigra; thorax macu- 

 lis octo cyaneo-fuscis ; pectus cyaneo-nigrum, disco albo ; 

 abdomen cyaneo-nigrum, vittis lateralibus et segmentorum 

 suturis luteis ; pedes cyanei^femoribus subtus albis, tibiis luteo 

 strigatis ; alee antica? fasciis sex fuscis, tribus in terr up tis, sub- 

 tus luteee. Mas. — Alee posticce caudatee, testaceo limpidee, 

 maculis marginalibus fuscis. Foem. — Alee posticee cyaneo- 

 nigree, antice luteo fasciatee, intus vitta lutea, postice luteee 

 maculis nigris. 



Head and thorax white. Head in front brown, and tinged 

 with blue. Proboscis pale testaceous. Palpi black. Antennae 

 black, tinged with blue towards the base. Thorax with eight blue- 

 brown spots, two in front, four elongated lengthwise, and forming a 

 band on the disk, and two behind. Pectus bluish black, with a 

 white disk. Abdomen bluish black ; sutures of the segments and a 

 stripe on each side luteous. Legs dark blue; femora white beneath, 

 and with a white streak near the tips above ; tibiae with luteous 

 streaks. Fore wings white, with three oblique bands, which are 

 interrupted by the white or luteous veins, and are accompanied by 

 three slender irregular and more interrupted bands ; under side 

 mostly luteous. Male. — Spots on the thorax much darker than 

 those of the female. Bands and stripes of the abdomen broader. 

 Bands of the fore wings blackish brown, tinged with blue. Hind 

 wings mostly bare and limpid, testaceous, with brown spots along 

 the lore border, thickly clothed with testaeeous and brown hairs 

 along the inner border, where they are half folded and prolonged 

 into a short tail. Female. — Bands of the fore wings olive-brown. 

 Hind wings black, tinged with blue, with short luteous bands along 



