. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 366 ARCTIAD^. Fore wing tinged with pale yellow-brown, with series of grey black- edged spots; a subbasal series of two spots, four antemedial spots, and a short black streak in cell; six medial spots, the spot in costa irregular, the one in cell elongate and both joined to the discoidal spot; postmedial and subterminal series of eight and nine spots, and a terminal series of nine more or less elongate spots. Hind wing fuscous black, with the base and veins pale
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British Museum. British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Moths; Lepidoptera. 366 ARCTIAD^. Fore wing tinged with pale yellow-brown, with series of grey black- edged spots; a subbasal series of two spots, four antemedial spots, and a short black streak in cell; six medial spots, the spot in costa irregular, the one in cell elongate and both joined to the discoidal spot; postmedial and subterminal series of eight and nine spots, and a terminal series of nine more or less elongate spots. Hind wing fuscous black, with the base and veins paler, some whitish subter- minal marks on the veins. Hah. Brazil, Castro Parana, 1 cS. Exp., S 42, 5 52 millim. 1907. Ecpantheria heterogena. Ecpantheria heterogena, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 15. f. 2 (1881); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. Ecpantheria context a, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 109, pi. 16. f. 2 (1881); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 218. Ecpantheria pellucida, Schaus, P. Z. S. 1892, p. 282; id. Am. Lep. p. 13, pi. 3. ff. 11, 12. S. Head and thorax grey-white ; sides of frons blue-black ; antennae with the branches black ; tegulae and patagia with two black stripes meeting at extremity ; legs banded with black ; abdomen dorsally blue-black except at base and extremity. Fore wing brownish white, hyaline from median nervure before middle to termen at apex and vein 1; five black-edged spots on costa, from. Fig. 160.—Ecpantheria heterogena, (^. \. above vein 1, and four on inner margin ; cilia chequered with black. Hind wing hyaline, the inner area clothed with white hair; a black spot on tornal lobe, and sometimes some points on termen towards apex ; the underside with three black-edged spots on costa; the tornus slightly produced. 5 . Head and thorax whiter, with brown between the black lines; abdomen with the extremity black. Fore wing with series of black-edged brown spots ; two irregular subbasal spots ; an ante- medial series of 6 spots, the spot in cell elongate and connected
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