LEMONIAS I. 



LEMONIAS NAIS. 1-4. 



Lemonias Nain, Eiiw. (Chri/sophanus Nais), Trans. Ainer. Ent. Soc, V., '2!)1, 1876. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. 



Upper side fulvou,s and dark brown, spotted with black, the disks being fulvous, 

 the bases and margins brown ; a fulvous dash on costal margin of primaries at 

 base ; hind margins edged by a black line ; the narrow brown border is followed 

 by a series of rounded black spots, completely crossing both' wings ; in some 

 examples the submarginal fulvous area is broad, in others it is reduced to a series 

 of fulvous crenations on the anterior side of the rounded spots ; next preceding 

 is a common black band made up of narrow confluent spots; a similar band 

 crosses the disks, witli a .sharp bend round the end of cell of primaries ; at the 

 extremity of each cell a black transverse bar, and three others within, near the 

 middle ; also below are three in line with the others ; primaries have a small white 

 submarginal spot, and an indistinct whitish or yellowish spot near inner angle ; 

 fringes alternately, but irregularly, l)rown and white. 



Under side of primaries orange, except for a little spot of white or buff quite 

 at the margin in each interspace, and a dash of same color in subcostal inter- 

 space ; hind margin edged by a black line ; the whole wing spotted Ijlack, rep- 

 resenting in small the marks of upper side. Secondaries yellow-white or buff, 

 with black marginal line, the spots repeated as on primaries ; between the two 

 outer rows an orange belt, and orange over outer part of cell and in the inter- 

 spaces below cell. 



Body above, dark brown, below, either white or buff; the abdominal segments 

 at their edges, on sides, fulvous ; legs, pale orange, the femora white, and the 

 first pair (which are aborted in this sex) white; palpi white ; antennse annulated 

 black and white ; club black, reddish at tip. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands from 1.3 to 1.4 inches. 



Marked like the male, but the colors are lighter, and in many examples the 

 fulvous area is moi'e extended. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



