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141. PAMPHILA MESKEI, Edw. 



Expanse of wings from 1.5 to 1.6 inches. 



Male. Upper side dark brown, marked and spotted 

 with reddish fulvous ; three small spots in subcostal in- 

 terspaces of fore wings, two others opposite the cell and 

 towards the outer margin, and in line with these an 

 oblique row crossing the median interspaces, the lower 

 spots merged in the fulvous of disk or cell to base and 

 anteriorly to costa ; the stigma in two sections, the ante- 

 rior one completely crossing the lower median inter- 

 space, a narrow, smooth, black, slightly bent ridge ; the 

 lower one in submedian interspace parallel to the line 

 of the other, short, not reaching either venule; be- 

 hind the stigma is a narrow, blackish, rough patch. 

 The hind wings have the central part obscure fulvous, 

 with an imperfectly denned series of spots between the 

 cell and the outer margin. Fringes of the fore wings 

 fuscous next the margin, whitish outside ; of the hind 

 wings, fuscous next the margin, then fulvous, and out- 

 side whitish. 



Under side of hind wings bright ferruginous, of one 

 shade, and without spots; apex of fore wings bright 

 ferruginous, the outer margin a little obscured, the spots 

 indistinctly repeated, next the base and against the stigma 

 black. 



Female. Color dark brown ; the fore wings have 

 spots placed as in the male, distinctly defined through- 

 out, the basal area being brown, instead of fulvous as in 

 the male. Hind wings as in the male, though the s^ots 

 may be more clearly defined. 



Under side as in the male, but on the disk of the hind 



