g6 ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 



Phyciodes nortbrundii A. G. Weeks, Jr.^ 



{Plate XLII, Figure i.) 



Habitat: Bolivia, Cochabamba district. Expanse: 1.45 inches. 



Head and palpi black. Collar black, with a dark fulvous spot at each 

 shoulder. Antennae dark brownish black, with a slightly darker annulation at 

 base of each joint. Thorax black above and below, with a dark fulvous spot 

 at joint of fore wing below. Abdomen, above, black; below, grayish. 



Ground color of wings black or dark brownish black, with dark fulvous 

 markings. 



Costa of fore wing black, with a dash of dark fulvous extending from joint. 

 One-third distance from apex to base, is a series of dark fulvous interspacial 

 dashes, five in number, extending at right angles to costa down through the 

 next lower interspaces, forming a fulvous band across apical portion of wing. 

 Discoidal space dark fulvous, with a black dash crossing the centre trans- 

 versely. The dark fulvous extends into the three lower interspaces one-half 

 distance to hind margin. Hind margin black. 



Hind wing black, with dark fulvous centre ; the fulvous centre being interspa- 

 cial, most extensive in discoidal space and encroached upon in each interspace 

 by a black pointed dash extending inward from the black background of outer 

 third of wing. 



Under side of fore wing the same as upper side, except that the dark fulvous 

 band across apical area is somewhat broadened and extends down on hind 

 margin to inner margin, and the apical area is fulvous, with a black thread 

 along centre of each interspace. Nervules black. 



Under side of hind wing has a border of dark brownish fulvous covering one- 

 third of wing. Within this and shading into it, is a narrow portion of light ful- 

 vous. Basal portion dark fulvous, the discoidal space being crossed by a black 

 line. In each interspace, extending from hind margin to centre of wing, is a 

 black line. Nervules and nervures black. Inner margin light fulvous. 



Described from four specimens taken north of Cochabamba August 

 25, 1899. 



1 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. XXVII, p. 359, December, 1901. 



