10 ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 



and brown markings of upper surface are repeated, but are all white. The hind 

 margin has a slight whitish line. 



Variatmis. — In some specimens the light brown marginal border 

 or series of interspacial spots noted on upper surface of hind wing is 

 continued upwards across marginal area of fore wing, but it is so vari- 

 able in its definiteness that it may be considered a distinct band in 

 some specimens, or a mere suffusion in others. The small discoidal 

 spot of fore wing is often joined to the larger one in the discoidal 

 space. 



Taken in January, 1900. 



Pythonides hoyti A. G. Weeks, Jr.^ 

 {Plate VI, Figure 2.) 

 Habitat : Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse : i.8o inches. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen above, dark brown, with golden brown hairs ; 

 beneath, light brown. Antennae dark brown. 



Upper side of fore wing brown. Across the discoidal space is a semitrans- 

 parent spot of peculiar shape, straight on its basal side, but forked on its mar- 

 ginal side, forming a figure |>. In the first submedian interspace is another 

 similar spot somewhat nearer the hind margin. Above the upper point of this, 

 in the interspace next above it, is a square spot. In the apical area are three 

 subcostal elongated semitransparent spots, the uppermost and lowest ones being 

 a little nearer hind margin than the central one. Near base, about one-third 

 distance to apex is an indistinct band of dark brown running from costa to 

 inner margin. Another band runs across the two lower interspaces between 

 the first band and hind margin. Below the subcostal spots is a dusting of dark 

 brown. This, with the band last mentioned, suggests a band across the wing 

 broken by the white spots and ground color at central portion of the wing, this 

 partially developed band being continued on hind wing. 



Upper side of hind wing brown, matching fore wing. The wing is crossed 

 from costa to inner margin, by two darker bands, these being continuations of 

 the bands of the fore wing. The basal and anal areas of the wing are covered 

 with brown hairs, causing an apparent suffusion of the bands. 



Both wings have a fringe of the ground color. 



Under side of fore wing very light brown, excepting the costal and apical 

 areas, which are darker. The spots of upper surface are repeated, also the 

 dark bands. 



1 Entomological News, Vol. XVII, No. 6, p. 202, June, 1906. 



