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CHIONOBAS II. 



CHIONOBAS CALIFORNICA, 3-6. 



Chionolas CaliJ'ornkii, Boisduval, Ann. do la Soo. Ent. de Belfjique, Vol. XII., p. 62, 18C8. 

 Ibid. Lej). de la Calif, p. 62, 1869. 



Primaries in male much produced, costal margin nearly straight ; hind margin.s 

 of primaries in both sexes nearly straight ; the exterior outline of the discal band 

 on under side of secondaries irregularly scalloped. 



Male. — Expands 2.4 inches. 



Upper side brown-orange, nearly as in primaries of Idnna, but uniform on 

 both wings ; hind margins edged by narrow fuscous borders of nearly equal width 

 throughout and extending quite to the apex of primaries ; costal border of 

 primaries dark brown, as is also the base and all of the cell except a stripe at 

 outer angle, where the groimd color is exposed ; the oblique di.scal band scarcely 

 distinguishal)le in color from the darker portion of cell ; primaries have an oval 

 black ocellus on upper discoidal interspace, and a small blind one on second 

 median interspace. Secondaries liave the costal margin flecked with brown, and 

 a small patch of brown scales at outer angle ; on second median interspace a 

 small pupillated ocellus — (probably in a series of specimens the ocelli will be 

 found to vary as in Iduna) ; fringes of both wings alternately fuscous and yellow 

 in equal degree. 



Under side of primaries paler ; costal edge gray, specked and streaked trans- 

 ver.sely witli dark l>rown, next before apex white ; apex gray-brown, shading 

 into brown on hind margin ; the cell next sub-costal nervure slightly sjjecked 

 with brown. Secondaries whitish, washed with pale brown from base to hind 

 margin, but slightly along costal and iimer margins, where the white shade pre- 

 dominates ; the basal area streaked transversely and densely with brown ; the 

 inner margin and costal edge slightly streaked ; the hind margin edged by a 

 narrow brown border ; remainder of wing nearly free from streaks and of a 

 pretty uniform shade of color ; the disk crossed by a broad band the exterior 

 outline of which is irregularly scolloped ; the interior outline sinuous, at first 

 convex toward base of wing, and most advanced on sub-costal nervure, then 



