62 ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 



The upper side of hind wing is transparent, distinctly yellowish in some 

 lights. The costa is black, and the hind margin has a border of black nearly 

 one-quarter inch wide, covering anal angle and extending along inner margin as 

 a line only. The black of costa extends downward somewhat near end of dis- 

 coidal space. The yellow tinge of transparent portion is more apparent in the 

 basal area. 



The under side of fore wing is the same as upper side, except that in the first 

 four interspaces at apex are four well-defined white spots. 



The under side of hind wing is the same as upper side, except that the upper 

 half of the black border at costa is tawny. The hind marginal border also 

 becomes tawny as it approaches the anal angle. In the interspaces below 

 upper angle, in the centre of the black hind marginal border, are six white 

 spots. 



Taken near Bogota in 1896. 



Niconiades tihoneta A. G. Weeks, Jr. 1 



(Plate XXII, Figure i.) 

 Habitat: Bolivia, near La Paz. Expanse: 1.75 inches. 



Male. Head, palpi, thorax and abdomen, above, black, with brownish hairs ; 

 beneath, black, with red-brown hairs. Antennae, above, black ; beneath, lighter, 

 turning to yellowish white at club. The abdomen has a red-brown end. 



Fore wing, above, blackish brown, with a few lighter hairs in basal area. 

 Near end of discoidal space is a jagged white spot. Midway between this and 

 apex are three subcostal interspacial white dots. On a line drawn from apex 

 down to centre of inner margin is a series of white spots, five in number. The 

 first is scarcely visible, and under it, in next interspace, is a larger spot ; below 

 this and nearer the base is another of about the same size ; below this and nearer 

 the base is another much larger one ; below this and nearer the base, resting on 

 submedian nervure, is another directly under the white discoidal spot. Running 

 from end of discoidal space, starting just inside of the largest white spot, is 

 a distinct white line, ending at submedian nervure and having a background of 

 blackish brown, darker than ground color. The hind margin has a narrow fringe 

 of hairs of ground color, but tawny as it approaches lower angle. The white 

 spots are transparent rather than absolutely white. 



Hind wing, above, blackish brown, with tawnyish hairs covering basal area. 

 On a line drawn from upper angle across to the centre of inner margin are four 

 interspacial elongated transparent white spots, the first under the first subcostal 



1 Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XXXIII, No. 12, p, 323, December, 1901. 



