Cat. lep. Brit. Mus. Vol. 3

1925. Ecpantheria cunigunda.
Bombyx cunigunda, Stoll, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 844, D, E (1781) ; Kirby, Cat.
Het. p. 215.
Ecpantheria ganglio, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. p. 107, pl. 13. f. 5 (1881) ; Kirby,
Cat. Het. p. 215.
Ecpantheria cayennensis, Oberth. Et, Ent. vi. p. 107, pl. 14. ff. 1, 3 (1881) ;
Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 215.
Ecpantheria cayennensis, var. decipiens, Oberth. Et. Ent. vi. pl. 15. f. 6
(1881).

Male: Head and thorax white; palpi above, a spot on frons, and
antennz black; tegule, patagia, pro- meso- and metathorax, and
, legs with annulate black marks; abdomen orange with the 1st
segment brown, dorsal blue-black bands conjoined by subdorsal
expansions enclosing dorsal orange spots, lateral blue-black fascie,
the ventral surface white with small sublateral black annuli on
terminal segments, anal tuft white. Fore wing white, with blackedged
subbasal annuli on costa and below cell; antemedial, medial,
postmedial, and subterminal series of annuli, the spots towards costa
filled in with black, the postmedial series bent outwards below vein
5; a lunule just beyond discocellulars ; a terminal series of small
spots. Hind wing white, with fuscous streak on vein 1 and spot
on tornal lobe, which is well developed.


Female: Abdomen with the dorsal bands not conjoined, streaks on
subterminal segment uniting in a patch on terminal. Fore wing
with the spots larger, annulate towards costa and on termen, two
spots beyond lower angle of cell. Hind wing with black-edged
greyish medial band from costa to median nervure, where it is conjoined
to a streak in lower end of cell and discoidal lunule ; a postmedial
spot on costa; more or less developed black diffused markings
on inner area ; typically some small spots beyond lower angle of cell
and a subterminal series small towards costa or reduced to spots
-between vein 3 and tornus; four small terminal spots between apex
and vein 3.
Ab. 1. decipiens. Abdomen with the dorsal bands reduced to
subdorsal patches, the subterminal streaks reduced.
Hab. Cayenne; Surtnam; Brazit, Rio Janeiro, Rio Grande do
Sul (Lhering), 1 9, St. Catherina. Hwp., ¢ 50, 2 82 millim.