ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. IO3 



Metacharis indissimilis A. G. Weeks, Jr.^ 

 {Plate XLV, Figure i.) 

 Habitat: Colombia, Bogota district. Expanse: 1.25 inches. 



Head, above, black; beneath, light tawny. Antennae black. Legs light 

 tawny. Thorax and abdomen, above, black ; beneath, light tawny. 



General ground color of wings dark grayish brown. 



Costa of fore wing dark grayish brown. Hind margin has a narrow border of 

 i-ust color, scarcely perceptible at lower angle, but broadening toward apex. 

 In each interspace, about one-sixteenth inch from margin, is a black dot. At 

 apex, within the rust-colored tip, is a broad band of tawny color running from 

 costa across apical area toward hind margin, a quarter-inch wide. This is the 

 prominent feature of the wing. The rest of the wing to the base is dark grayish 

 brown, marked with irregular transverse black lines. Three of these lines, 

 equidistant, cross the discoidal space extending downward to submedian 

 nervure. Another borders the outer edge of discoidal space. Another starts at 

 subcostal nervure bordering the tawny space, and then extends downward to 

 submedian nervure and at right angles to it. Outside of this, in the two lower 

 interspaces midway to hind margin, are two black dashes. 



The hind margin of lower wing is rust-colored, but suffused by ground color, 

 rendering it almost imperceptible. The interspacial black dots are present, each 

 surrounded on basal side by a semi-circle of black. The black lines of fore wing 

 are duplicated, but broken, having more the appearance of a series of spots. 



The general coloring of under surface is much brighter, generally tawny. 



The hind margin of fore wing is dark tawny or rust-colored. The interspacial 

 black dots are quite prominent. The tawny band of upper side is repeated, 

 but suffuses downward toward inner margin. The discoidal space is rust color, 

 suffusing into adjoining interspaces. The space from lowest median nervule to 

 inner margin is yellowish gray, except for a small portion bordering lower angle. 

 The black lines of upper surface are duplicated but broken into spots. 



The hind margin of lower wing has a prominent border of rust color one-eighth 

 inch wide. The interspacial black dots are present, bordered on basal side by a 

 bit of light tawny, the black semi-circles of upper side scarcely showing. Rest 

 of wing is yellowish gray, the black lines or spots appearing as on upper side. 



This closely resembles M. lucius Fabr., and several examples are 

 in European collections mixed in with it. 



1 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. XXVII, p. 338, December, 1901. 



