. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ECPANTDEEIA. 3G9 tuffc at extremity ; pectus fuscous and blue at sides ; legs white banded with black, fore eox;o with blue patches ; abdomen crimson banded with blue-black, the Ist segment brown, lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface white with sublateral and ventral black spots, anal tuft yellowish, blue at middle and black at sides above. Fore wing white, tinged with pale brown ; curved subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, subterminal, and almost terminal series of small black spots; three spots just beyond
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ECPANTDEEIA. 3G9 tuffc at extremity ; pectus fuscous and blue at sides ; legs white banded with black, fore eox;o with blue patches ; abdomen crimson banded with blue-black, the Ist segment brown, lateral series of black spots, the ventral surface white with sublateral and ventral black spots, anal tuft yellowish, blue at middle and black at sides above. Fore wing white, tinged with pale brown ; curved subbasal, antemedial, medial, postmedial, subterminal, and almost terminal series of small black spots; three spots just beyond the cell. Hind wing brownish white, with two black spots on costa, small discoidal and subapical spots, and black patches on inner area near base and on tornal lobe, which is very large. 2 . Wings rather darker; fore wing with whitish centres to the spots ; hind wing with subterminal series of whitish-centred spots. ITab. Jamaica (Gosse), 4 S type, 1 5 type obesa. Exp., J 46, 2 80 millim. 1909. Ecpantheria laeta. Ecpaniheria lata, Wlk. iii. 696 (1855); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217. Ecpantheria braziliensis, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. Ill, pi. 19. ff. 2, 3, 6 (1881). Ecpantheriapreeclara, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. Ill, pi. 19. f. 1 (1881); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 217. S . Head and thorax white ; palpi, frons, and antennae blue- black ; neck yellow ; tegulae, patagia, meso- and metathorax with black patches, elongate on patagia and mesothorax ; pectus black at sides ; fore coxse and bands on legs blue-black ; abdomen orange, with doi'sal series of blue-black bands and lateral series of spots, the ventral surface white with ventral black points and bands at base and extremity. Eore wing white, with two subbasal black-edged. Fig. 161.—K'panthcria Iwta, (^, \. olive-brown spots ; an antemedial curved series of small spots ; a medial series of large spots, slightly angled in cell; a discoidal bar ; a postmedial series of small , the one on costa larger, angled at vein 4, tlicn incurved ;
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