ILLUSTRATIONS OF HITHERTO UNFIGtJRED 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY A. G. WEEKS, JR. 



Eresia klagesii A. G. Weeks, Jr. 1 



(Plate 7.) 

 Habitat: Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse: 2.10 inches. 



Head above black, with a white dot above each eye and one betwixt the 

 bases of the antennae. Antennae black. Club black above, beneath brown, 

 with tawny tip. Thorax and abdomen black or very dark brown above, 

 beneath tawny brown. 



Upper side of fore wing tawny brown, with black markings. Costa black. 

 Half way up the costa a black band runs downward, across the end of the dis- 

 coidal space to the first submedian nervule, where it suffuses toward hind 

 margin. Beyond this, on apical side, is an area of ground color of the same 

 width. The apical area, representing one-fourth of the total wing area, is 

 black, with a tawny brown dash in its central portion. In some specimens, 

 owing to lack of any suffusion, this dash may be called a well-defined spot. The 

 hind margin is bordered with black from apex down to the second submedian 

 nervule, and in some specimens this extends to lower angle. The inner mar- 

 ginal area is dashed with black. The median nervure is heavily black from the 

 base up to the second submedian nervule. 



Upper side of lower wing tawny brown, with black markings. A black line 

 one-sixteenth of an inch wide extends from the base of the wing along the costa 

 nearly to the upper angle. The hind margin is slightly dentated or wavy, and 

 has a black border one-sixteenth of an inch wide, broadening somewhat toward 

 anal angle. From the inner margin near the base of the wing a line of inter- 

 spacial black spots extends across the wing, curving upward to the upper angle. 

 These are, in some specimens, quite indistinct, owing to being dusted with 

 tawny scales. 



Under side of fore wing is governed by the markings of the upper surface. 

 The black portions are not so dense and suffuse into the ground color. The 

 band of ground color running from costa to hind margin is more yellow, and 

 the apical area is tawny brown. At the apex is a patch of dull yellow, crossed 



1 Entomological News, Vol. XVII, No.' 6, p. 195, June, 1906. 



