8 WEEKS — UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA me 
Pandora prola Doubl.Hew. 
FEMALE. 
(Plate TV.) 
Habitat: Colombia, Bogota District. Expanse: 3.12 inches. 
Front and summit of head of bluish slate color, with touchings or spottings 
of white bordering the eyes. Antennz black; club black, shading to gray 
at extreme tip. Thorax generally black with a blue-slate lustre, brick-red 
beneath. Palpi black above, white beneath; legs the same. Abdomen, above, 
black with blue-slate lustre, shading to mouse color underneath. 
Upper side of primaries prominently crossed by a band of blue steel color, 
having much lustre, and a third of an inch wide, extending from costa, curv- 
ing outwards and striking inner margin just within the angle. This band 
extends across the secondaries also. Outside of this band, plain soft black 
slightly tinged with blue, excepting that midway between the band and tip of 
wing is another band of blue steel color, rather indistinct, starting in a whitish 
spot on the subcostal vein and extending across to centre of hind margin, and 
then continuing down in an almost imperceptible line to the angle, there join- 
ing the larger band. 
Inside of the large band, the ground color is lustrous deep blue steel color, 
with heavy transverse black lines. Of these lines there are six in the discoidal 
space, equidistant. The first two extend to the submedian vein, the third 
crosses the space only, the fourth continues to the inner margin, the fifth 
crosses the space only, and the sixth extends downward to the inner margin, 
meeting the large band at the second median veinlet, showing considerable 
suffusion then toward the base. The costa is of the same blue steel color, 
tapering to black as it approaches the tip, but crossed by the large band. 
The secondaries have the same general appearance, the large band extending 
to the anal angle, following the curve of the hind margin, one quarter to one 
third of an inch within it. This space or border of the hind margin is plain 
blue-black. ‘he band on the secondaries is more blue, not showing the slight 
greenish lustre of the same band on the primaries. Beginning at the sub- 
costal vein, the band is bordered on the inside by a black line, showing suf- 
fusion toward base and tapering to a thread toward anal angle. The space 
is crossed by two heavy black lines, with a suggestion of another line between 
them. : 
Beneath, the discoidal space of primaries only, shows the blue steel ground. 
At the apex of the space this shades into a band or space of blue-black which 
extends from centre of costa to submedian vein, covering one third of the wing. 
This space of blue-black shades into a band of lustrous silvery white, which 
extends across the tip of the wing from the costa to near the centre of the 
