2 WEEKS — UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA P.N.E.Z.C. 
Hypolyczena festata A. G. Weeks, Jr.* 
(Plate I, Figures 1 and 2.) 
Habitat: Lower California (San José del Cabo). Expanse: g 
and Q, 1.00 to 1.10 inches. 
Male.— Front and summit of head covered with light gray, nearly white 
hairs, deepening in shade as they approach thorax. Antenne blackish, with 
white annulations at the base of each joint; club blackish brown, tipped with 
orange at base; the white extends nearly half way to apex. Thorax, above, 
presents generally the same color as wings, and is covered with grayish hairs; 
beneath, it is almost pure white. Legs covered with white hairs, shading into 
gray at ends. Abdomen, above, same color as wings, the blue disappearing 
toward end, where it is replaced by deepening gray; underneath, white shad- 
ing into yellowish gray at end. 
Upper side of fore wings a deep rich purplish blue, with some lustre; a large 
discoidal spot of the original ground color but inclining to blackish; the base 
very slightly dusted with blackish gray scales; the costa edged with blackish 
gray, almost linear over discoidal cell, and broadening toward apex, then 
extending down hind margin, of varying width, and covering one third of 
marginal area; inner margin without any border. Hind wings: ground color 
same as fore wings; inner margin light gray; costa and hind margin with a 
linear edge of blackish gray, inside of which, on the hind margin, is a fine 
thread-like line of white, broadening somewhat toward anal angle; inside of 
this is an almost imperceptible shading of dark blackish gray, bordering the 
ground color; two thread-like tails from termination of submedian nervure 
and first median nervule, the former more than thrice the length of the latter, 
blackish gray, very slightly edged and tipped with white; between these tails 
the dark shading inside of white line broadens into a dark spot, and this 
broadening is repeated below the submedian nervure, but in less degree; at 
anal angle is an orange spot of small size, bordered at top with white, and 
bearing a few light blue scales at lower edge. 
Beneath, both wings are light gray with slight intermingling of whitish scales, 
and near base a slight shading of darker gray, which latter is wanting in some 
specimens. The costa of the fore wing is edged with orange near base about 
one quarter the distance to apex; edge of hind margin with a delicate line of 
dark brownish gray; the dark edging which appears on upper side and occupies 
one third of marginal area, manifests itself underneath by a very slight yellow- 
ish tinge, scarcely perceptible on the gray background; on the inner edge of 
this, one sixteenth inch from margin, is a transverse stripe of darkish gray 
elongated streaks extending from the costal border to the lower median 
nervule, bordered on each side with lighter gray, and always very indistinct, 
1 Entomological News, Vol. II, No. 6. 
