ECPANTHERIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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and laterally with golden yellow spots being confluent in the <$. The figured specimens come from the district 
of Tucuman; from the environs of Buenos Ayres have a much lighter, almost chalky white ground-colour 
of the forewings. Common. 
albiscripta. E. albiscripta Drc. (40 d). The rings and dentate markings of the forewings are white on a yellowish- 
grey ground. Hindwings in the A white, in the $ greyish-brown with a white, undulate, postmedian marking. 
Body like in indecisa. South Brazil; Rio Grande do Sul. 
nnomala. E. anoniala Burm. Pale olive, thorax marked white, abdomen laterally yellow, beneath white. Fore¬ 
wings with darker veins. At the costal margin and in the cell dull white and dark spots. Hindwings with white 
marginal clots, whitish streaks at the base of the costa, in and behind the cell. Somewhat larger than the 
preceding, Entre Rios (Argentina). 
stiffusa. E. suffusa Schs. (40 d). Size of the preceding; forewings quite light whitish-grey. Forewings with 
very dense chain-markings; hindwings white, in the with sparse black spots, in the $ with distorted rings 
filled up with grey. Abdomen golden yellow with black dorsal spots. — Larva grey, when grown up with a 
yellow head, with white striation and dark dotting, below the indistinct subdorsal line darker. Above the stigmata 
a broad, yellow lateral stripe; hair pointed and bristly, in dense tufts, on the first rings some long, white hairs. 
Mexico, common; the figured specimens from Misantla (,J) and Guerrero ($). 
confusa. E. confusa Drc. resembles suffusa in the colouring, size, shape, and marking, but the hindwings are 
less spotted, those of the $ in the basal halves all white, and the abdomen is above not spotted dark. Mexico. 
icstacca. E. testacea Rothsch. The species is easily discernible by the greyish-brown ground-colour covering 
the body and wings. Thorax with dark rings, abdomen blackish-blue, the base light yellowish-brown; forewings 
light cinnamon-coloured, with rows of dark rings, hindwings whitish, the inner-marginal area smoky brown. 
Peru. 
b) Ground-colour of the wings purely white, only rarely with some yellowish tint. 
1. Forewings traversed by rows of spots, not by ring’s. 
oh tecta. E. obtecta Dogn. is a very small species, based upon a $ of only 35 mm. Head and thorax brown, 
the latter above mixed with lighter hairs. Abdomen brown with yellow skies and white underside. Forewing 
with 5 transverse chains; the basal one extends to the submedian; the next has 1 costal spot and 3 dots between 
the median and the proximal margin. The middle chain, being doubled, composed of dissimilar internerval 
spots, followed by some smaller dots. The 4th, subterminal chain is likewise double; finally the terminal row. 
All the small spots are brown encircled by black. Fringes white. Tucuman (North Argentina). 
niclanolcu- E. melanoleuca Rothsch. (41 a). Likewise small, the brown spots are much denser, so that they are 
ca - confluent and form bands in the middle of the wing and at the margin of the forewing. Hindwings yellowish- 
white, almost unspotted. North Argentina (Santiago del Esterro). 
miajdalcnae. E. magdalenae Oberth. (40d,e). Through the middle of the forewing a broad chain of spots, in the 
i another one through the marginal third; between, as well as at the distal and costal margins small dark spots. 
Hindwings in the $ white, with a sooty black proximal margin, in the $ grey, the margin marked yellow. 
stcinbachi. Colombia; the figured $ I obtained from Rio de Janeiro, where it was reported to have been captured. — - stein- 
bachi Rothsch. is larger, the proximal chain of spots of the forewing more remote from the base, so that the 3 
bands of the forewing are closer together, the anal tooth of the longer; Bolivia. 
laclu. E. laeta Wfcr. (40 e) is very closely allied to magdalenae, but the forewing shows also in the A 2 broad 
chains of spots, in the hindwings the whole inner-marginal half and besides the apex are sooty. The $ scarcely 
differs from the preceding species, but it shows the chains of spots somewhat torn, and on the dark hindwings 
praedara. mostly also light cell-end spots. — - praeclara Oberth. (40 e) has diaphanous pale yellow A hindwings with 
brazlliensis. an ochreous tinge at the proximal margin. Venezuela and Colombia. —- braziliensis Oberth. (40 e) has the 
hindwings diaphanous white, only the anal tooth being sooty, and the distal chain of spots of the forewing 
being composed of smaller spots. The author mentions ,,Brazil 1 ' as its habitat; probably it is meant to the 
north of it. 
theophila. E. theophila Dogn. has yellowish wings, the forewings being marked almost exactly like in laeta, 
the subterminal row of dots does not reach the border at the proximal angle. Hindwings with long j^ellow 
hair, 3 costal spots, and one small subcostal spot close before the apex. The $ has more white than yellow 
forewings, and the hindwings are almost quite black with a yellow subterminal line; at the margin some spots. 
A little larger than the preceding; from Popayan (Colombia). 
leucarctioi- E. leucarctioides Grt. <£• R. (= tenella H. Edw.) (40 e). The chains of spots of the forewings much 
dc,s ' narrower than in laeta, and in the A often entirely interrupted in the middle of the forewing. Hindwing at the 
trebuilt, proximal margin yellow, only the small apex of the anal tooth black. Mexico. — In the form trebula Drc. from 
Guatemala the forewings, particularly in the <j>,. are intensely suffused with yellow. 
