LEMONIAS I. 
LEMONIAS NAIS. 1-4. 
Lemonias Nais, Edw. (Chrijsophanus Nais), Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., Y., 291, 1876. 
Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. 
Upper side fulvous and dark brown, spotted with black, the disks being fulvous, 
the bases and margins brown ; a fulvous dash on costal margin of primaries at 
base ; hind margins edged by a black line; the narrow brown border is followed 
by a series of rounded black spots, completely crossing both wings; in some 
examples the submarginal fulvous area is broad, in others it is reduced to a series 
of fulvous crenations on the anterior side of the rounded spots; next preceding 
is a common black band made up of narrow confluent spots; a similar band 
crosses the disks, with a sharp bend round the end of cell of primaries; at the 
extremity of each cell a black transverse bar, and three others within, near the 
middle ; also below are three in line with the others ; primaries have a small white 
submarginal spot, and an indistinct whitish or yellowish spot near inner angle; 
fringes alternately, but irregularly, brown and white. 
Under side of primaries orange, except for a little spot of white or buff quite 
at the margin in each interspace, and a dash of same color in subcostal inter¬ 
space ; hind margin edged by a black line ; the whole wing spotted black, rep¬ 
resenting in small the marks of upper side. Secondaries yellow-white or buff, 
with black marginal line, the spots repeated as on primaries; between the two 
outer rows an orange belt, and orange over outer part of cell and in the inter¬ 
spaces below cell. 
Body above, dark brown, below, either white or buff; the abdominal segments 
at their edges, on sides, fulvous; legs, pale orange, the femora white, and the 
first pair (which are aborted in this sex) white; palpi white ; antennas annulated 
black and white ; club black, reddish at tip. (Figs. 1, 2.) 
Female. — Expands from 1.3 to 1.4 inches. 
Marked like the male, but the colors are lighter, and in many examples the 
fulvous area is more extended. (Figs. 3, 4.) 
