4 WEEKS — UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA pra 
Lemonias maxima A. G. Weeks, Jr.’ 
(Plate I, Figure 4.) 
Habitat: Lower California. Expanse: 1.60 inches. 
Front of head covered with white hairs, shading into blackish brown at 
summit; between head and thorax a “collar” of fulvous hairs. Palpi white, 
shading into blackish brown at ends. Antenne blackish, with white annula- 
tions at base of each joint; club blackish, tipped with fulvous. Thorax, above, 
black, covered with blackish brown hairs; beneath white. Abdomen the same 
as thorax. 
Primaries, above, fulvous and dark brown, with white spots; margins dark 
brown. Costa dark brown, with a linear fulvous dash near base. The dark 
brown along hind margins covers marginal area; near hind margin a row of 
seven white spots in interspaces, the upper two elongated, and all bordered 
with a soft dash of blackish brown on basal and outer sides, more apparent 
on basal side. Within these, and one third distance from margin to base, a 
second row of seven white spots, larger than the first and cone-shaped (apex 
outward), bordered with black on basal side only, arranged, the upper three in 
a line at right angle to costa, the next three at right angle with inner margin, 
and the lower one not in line, but placed nearer hind margin; the upper three 
are placed in the dark brown of marginal area, the lower four in the fulvous 
ground color. Above this row and nearly in costal edge, is a small white 
speck; at the end of cell a large white spot edged on each side with black ; 
below this, extending from median nervule to submedian nervure, another 
large white spot, bordered with black on basal side only and irregular in shape; 
between these two, in notch formed by junction of median nervule and median 
nervure, a small blackish brown spot. In centre of cell a round white spot 
bordered with black, and below this, below nervure, another white spot 
bordered with black; between these and base two slight dashes of white; 
nervures and nervules dark brown. Secondaries are marked the same, except 
that in second row of white spots the second two are much elongated, with 
basal ends joining and forming a Y; also, on the costa over centre of cell, a 
larger elongated white spot with no border. 
Wings, beneath, much the same as above, except general coloring is much 
lighter and brighter and there is some lustre. Costa of primaries edged with 
white near base, broader at base, and tapering off to a point half way up the 
wing. White spots more suffused; those forming the Y on the upper side of 
secondaries blended in one irregular spot, and elongated or suffused enough to 
join with white spot in cell. Base of hind wings, and inner margin of same, 
generously dashed with silvery scales. 
Described from two specimens in my collection, taken near 
San José del Cabo, Lower California, by Mr. M. Abbott Frazar. 
1 Entomological News, Vol. II, No. 6. 
