LEMONIAS I. 
LEMONIAS PALMERII. 6-8. 
Lemonias Palmerii, Edwards, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., III., 189, 1870. 
Male. — Expands about one inch. 
Upper side sepia-brown, with patches of fulvous near base of primaries, and 
along both hind margins; the basal half of costal margin and the whole of cell 
of secondaries also fulvous; spotted with black and white; a common sub-mar¬ 
ginal row of minute white spots, each with a small rounded black spot in its pos¬ 
terior side ; an extra-discal row on primaries, and a discal on secondaries, the 
former zigzag, the latter irregular, a black spot on the basal side of each; at the 
end of each cell a white bar between two black, a similar set of spots near base, 
and others below the cells; fringes white, cut with pale brown at the tips of 
the nervules except at the apices. 
Under side ochraceous, deep colored on disk of primaries ; the white spots 
repeated, enlarged, and the discal row on secondaries confluent, forming a con¬ 
spicuous band; the black sub-marginal points repeated, but mere dots; the other 
black marks represented by ferruginous. 
Body above same color as wings, beneath white, the sides of abdomen yellow¬ 
ish ; legs and palpi white ; antennm annulated white and black, club black tipped 
with orange. 
Female. — Expands 1.2 inch. 
Upper side a shade paler, the fulvous marginal patches more conspicuous, the 
white spots larger. Under side of both wings whitish to the discal bands, beyond 
to base ochraceous. 
Egg. — Button-shaped, higher than JVais, the top elevated to the edge of a 
pan-shaped depression which has sloping sides and flat bottom (Fig. i 2 .) ; surface 
covered by a white vitreous net-work, the meshes larger in proportion than those 
of JSTais, and with a rounded knob at each angle (Fig. i\) ; color whitish-green 
(Fig. i.). Duration of this stage about twelve days. 
