ECPANTHERIA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
cunigunda. 
cayennen- 
sis. 
decipiens. 
heterogena. 
bahiensis. 
decora. 
cretacea. 
Lari. 
orbiculata. 
dubiosa. 
abdomina¬ 
lis. 
detect iva. 
detecta. 
aramis. 
annexa. 
kinkelini. 
alpha. 
albicornis. 
peruvensis. 
muzina. 
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E. cunigunda Stoll (= ganglio Oberth.) (40 h). Very abundant ring-markings. On the thorax 4 
ellipses, 2 more on the shoulder-covers, 5 rows of rings through the forewing and cell, the margins of the forewing 
densely covered with rings. Abdomen blackish-brown, with golden yellow bands. — In cayennensis the mar¬ 
kings of the wings are duller, the abdomen is golden yellow with very narrow transverse bands being almost 
interrupted in the middle of the dorsum. —- In decipiens Oberth. they are in fact interrupted and stunted to very 
fine, small stripes, the ring-markings are still duller, and in the $ extinct behind the cell. — From Guiana to 
South Brazil; not rare. 
E. heterogena Oberth. (= contexta Oberth., pellucida Sells.) (40 h). From the preceding distinguished 
by the thoracic marking consisting of parallel longitudinal lines, instead of rings. Distal half of the A forewing 
unmarked, hyaline. Abdomen above blackish-blue. — bahiensis Oberth. (= boisduvali Oberth.) (40 h) is much 
smaller, in both sexes with abundant ring-markings (partly distorted), but easily discernible by the dark longi¬ 
tudinal lines of the thorax. — Brazil: Rio de Janeiro; bahiensis from Bahia. 
E. decora Wkr. (— cyaneicornis Grt., haitensis Oberth.) (40 h) is recognizable by the bright yellow 
abdomen being spotted white at the base and decorated with 2 parallel rows of blackish-blue transverse spots. 
Hindwing in the d with a black spot in the anal tooth, in the $ with a subterminal row of rings. Mexico and 
the Antilles. 
E. cretacea Dogn. From the Eastern Cordilleras from Colombia (Medina) there is a species before 
me, particularly distinguished from decora by the G macular chains of the forewings being of a more uniform 
course, and by the yellow abdomen showing only on some segments black transverse bands of a blue reflection. 
As Dognin describes his cretacea from Medina, it may be it. But as he does not state whereby his cretacea differs 
from the other similar Ecpantheria and as his description is applicable for different species, this question cannot 
be decided here. 
E. bari Oberth. (40 i). A rather large form, recognizable by the thoracic marking, consisting of 2 
crescents on the thoracic dorsum, touching each other with the convexities. Abdomen blackish-blue, scantily 
spotted yellow. In the typical form from Cayenne the rows of rings of the forewing are rather dense, and the 
hindwing has, beside an inner-marginal wedge, only some dispersed dark spots and rings. -—- In orbiculata 
Oberth. from Rio de Janeiro the rings at the margin of the forewing are somewhat expanded, and the spotting 
of the hinclwing is somewhat denser, whereas in ab. dubiosa Oberth., likewise from Cayenne, the whole basal 
half of the hindwing is shaded with grey. 
E. abdominalis Wkr. (— proxima Oberth.) (40 i). The abdomen being banded blue and yellow strongly 
recalls decora, the thoracic marking being similar, too. But the hindwing has a much shorter, obtuser anal 
tooth of the d, and not only in the tooth itself a black shade, but the latter extends as a long diffuse patch to the 
base of the wing, and the distorted ring-spots at the costa and margin of the forewing are not hollow, but filled 
up with blackish; from Brazil. — detectiva Oberth. (40 i) has in the d forewing only very fine, small marginal 
dots, but an almost quite blue abdomen with but faint traces of yellow spots. — detecta Oberth. from Para has 
likewise only marginal dots on the forewings and entirely white hindwings, but the costal rings of the male 
forewings are not filled up with dark, much rather those in the basal part and disc. — In aramis Oberth. (40 i), 
being probably the $ to it, all the rings of the forewings are filled up with a bright greyish-brown, and also 
the hindwings are abundantly spotted sooty-brown. Likewise described from Brazil (Minas-Geraes). - annexa 
Oberth. has a yellow abdomen with dark bluish-black bands, like the typical form, but all the rings of the forewings 
are filled up with white, and the hindwing has, beside a diffuse spot before the proximal margin, blackish spots 
along the anal half of the margin. - kinkelini Bunn. (41 a) finally, denominated according to the Franefort 
paleontologist Kinkelix and considered to be a distinct species by Oberthur and Hampson, differs but slightly 
from aramis ; it has also the markings of the forewing filled up with grey, but the prothorax and the basal part 
of the forewing is sometimes slightly tinged rosy. All the forms of abdominalis originate from Brazil: kinkelini 
presumably also occurs in North Argentina, but scarcely in Buenos Ayres itself, as Oberthur states. 
E. alpha Oberth. (= orbiculata Brc. nec Oberth.) (40 i). This species greatly resembles the typical 
abdominalis, exhibiting the costal rings of the d forewing also filled up blackish, and the long inner-marginal 
diffuse spot of the hindwing, but the abdomen is blackish-blue, very little spotted yellow, the rings of the fore¬ 
wings being somewhat differently arranged, and particularly the tooth of the hindwing much longer. Mexico. 
E. albicornis Grt. from Cuba is easily recognizable by the antennae being white above. Considerably 
smaller than alpha. Thorax above with brown rings, abdominal dorsum blackish-blue. The rings of the forewing 
are arranged in G rows, and rather small; the disc also in the d not hyaline. Hindwings with some rings near 
the costa, otherwise few small black spots. Very rare, unless it be an insular aberration of another species. 
E. peruvensis Hmps. (41 b). Taken by Simons in Peru at an altitude of 1200 ft., known to me only 
from Hampson’s figure copied here, is larger than the preceding species and above all discernible by almost 
all the markings being extinct on the distal area of the forewing. 
E. muzina Oberth. (41 a), d wings hyaline in the whole distal areas, only at the base, costa and proximal 
margin sparse rings partly filled up with dark. The <j> recalls a heterogena (40 b), but it has, instead of 
