LEMONIAS I. 



LEMONIAS PALMERII. 5-8. 



Lemonias Pabnerii, Edwards, Trans. Aiucr. Eiit. Soc, III., 189, 1870. 



Male. — Expands about one inch. 



Uppci- 8i(le sepia-brown, with patches of fulvous near base of primaries, and 

 along both hind margins ; the basal half of costal margin and the whole of cell 

 of secondaries also fulvous ; spotted with ])lack and white ; a common sub-mar- 

 ginal row of minute white spots, each with a small rounded black spot in its pos- 

 terior side ; an extra-discal row on ])rimaries, and a discal on secondaries, the 

 former zigzag, the latter irregular, a black spot on the basal side of each ; at the 

 end of each cell a white bar between two black, a similar set of spots near base, 

 and others below the cells ; fringes white, cut with pale brown at the tips of 

 the nervules except at the apices. 



Under side ochraceous, deep colored on disk of primaries ; the white spots 

 repeated, enlarged, and the discal I'ow on secondaries continent, forming a con- 

 spicuous band ; the black sub-marginal points repeated, but mere dots; the other 

 black marks represented by ferruginous. 



Body above same color as wings, beneath white, the sides of abdomen yellow- 

 ish ; legs and palpi white ; antennae annulated white and black, club black tipped 

 with orange. 



Female. — Expands 1.2 inch. 



Upper side a shade paler, the fulvous marginal patches more conspicuous, the 

 white spots larger. Under side of both wings whitish to the discal bands, be3-ond 

 to base ochraceous. 



Egg. — Button-shaped, higher than Neds, the top elevated to the edge of a 

 pan-shaped depression which lias sloping sides and flat bottom (Fig. v'.) ; surface 

 covered by a white vitreous net-work, the meshes larger in proportion than those 

 of Neds, and with a rounded knob at each angle (Fig. ?.); color whitish-green 

 (Fig. i.). Duration of this stage about twelve days. 



