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Variations. Barring variation in size, the colorings in various 

 specimens seem much the same. The greatest variation, is in the 

 "jutting" of the brown costal area into the creamy white ground 

 area of fore wing, noted above as near end of discoidal space. The 

 density of the brown of marginal border also varies. 



Taken in November, 1899. It resembles quite closely IV. pelops 

 Cram. 



Patnphila chinoba A. G. Weeks, Jr. 1 



(Plate XVII, Figure 2.) 

 Habitat: Suapure, Venezuela. Expanse: 1.12 inches. 



Head, thorax, abdomen, and legs dark brown above ; beneath, gray. Antennae 

 dark brown, with gray on under side at club. 



Upper side of fore wing dark brown, with no markings excepting interspacial 

 dark spots along hind margin. 



Upper side of hind wing the same as fore wing, excepting that the hind mar- 

 ginal interspacial dark spots are more pronounced, and the edge of the margin 

 is a little lighter than ground color. 



Under side of fore wing light brown, close to mouse color. The costal area 

 shows a tendency to some lustre. The hind margin is edged with a black thread 

 and a narrow border of gray. The interspacial dark spots of the upper surface of 

 hind margin are repeated, but not prominently. Inner marginal area grayish. 



Under side of hind wing brownish gray, mottled with slight interspacial 

 streaks of darker color. From the costa near upper angle an irregular dark 

 band runs across to near the centre of inner margin. Another branch of this 

 band extends from the same point on the costa down to the anal angle along the 

 hind margin. Outside of this are repeated the interspacial dark spots of upper 

 surface, being black and very prominent. The inner marginal area is light gray, 

 with slight mottling towards anal angle. The hind margin has a dark thread. 



Variations. In many specimens the marginal interspacial dark 

 spots are practically wanting on upper surface. The hind margin is 

 occasionally well bordered with gray hairs ; also there is a suggestion 

 of three subcostal white spots on the fore wing, but none of the twenty 

 specimens in my collection show them at all conspicuously. The under 

 side shows but little variation except in the distinctness and depth of 

 coloring of the dark bands. 



Taken in August, 1900. 



i Canadian Entomologist, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 5, p. 175, May, 1906. 



