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tawny in its centre at its upper half. Within this is another silvery band with a 

 black border. The very base or shoulder is tawny. The tawny spot at anal 

 angle suffuses in all directions, extending along lower median nervule to the base. 



One specimen of this has been found in the British Museum col- 

 lection without name. 



Ithomia gardneri A. G. Weeks, Jr. 1 



(Plate XL.) 

 Habitat : Bolivia. Expanse : 2.30 inches. 



Head black, with a white spot at centre and a white spot over each eye. 

 Eyes surrounded by a white ring. Thorax, above, black, with a longitudinal 

 white dash ; below, white. Abdomen, above, black ; beneath, white. Antennae, 

 above, black: beneath, white in some lights. Club the same. Legs black 

 above ; white beneath. 



Upper surface generally transparent, with a yellowish tinge. Veins black. 



Costa of fore wing tawny, with a whitish dash on end of discoidal space. 

 Hind margin edged with black, a little more prominent at ends of veins. Inner 

 marginal space black. In some lights there are two dashes of yellowish in 

 interspaces at end of discoidal space, the lower one being nearer hind margin. 

 The interspaces at hind margin also have a dash of the same, and there is 

 another longitudinally across centre of discoidal space. These markings are 

 scarcely visible. 



The hind wing has a marginal border of black somewhat broader than on fore 

 wing, and within this, on hind margin, the yellowish dashes are larger. 



The under side of both wings is the same as upper side, except that the black 

 is replaced by dark tawny brown. 



Described from eight specimens in my collection taken near La 

 Paz, Bolivia, in April, 1899. It is close to /. esula Hew. in its 

 general appearance. 



i Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. XXVII, p. 357, December, 1901. 



