PHYCIODES. 191 
however, which have a rounded margin to the primaries, are of southern range; but 
we have as yet failed to find characters by which to separate them from the P. tharos 
section, with which we here associate them. 
Though our classification must thus be considered tentative, we believe our determi- 
nation of the following forty-one species to be correct, so many of the types being in 
our possession, or having been examined by us at various times. 
a. Outer margin of primaries rounded in a simple curve, and without tooth-like 
projection near the anal angle. 
P. cyneas group. A series of yellow spots in a dark band across the secondaries 
beneath beyond the cell. 
1. Phyciodes cyneas. (Tab. XXI. figg. 10, 11.) 
Phyciodes cyneas, Godm. & Salv. P. Z.8. 1878, p. 269°. 
Alis fuscis, anticis macula cellulari, altera infra eam et seriebus duabus margine externo subparallelis flavis ; 
maculis duabus ad marginis externi medium ferrugineis; posticis fasciis macularum flavarum duabus 
transvittatis, una per cellule finem, altera ultra eam, maculis sex submarginalibus ferrugincis: subtus 
anticis pallide ferrugineis et sicut in pagina superiore flavo maculatis serie autem apicali addenda; posticis 
flavis, venis et fascia transversa (maculas sex flavas includente) nigris. 
Q. Mari similis, sed major et maculis alarum ferrugineis, majoribus inter fascias flavas quoque ferrugineo 
notatis. 
Hab. Mrxico, Oaxaca (Fenochio '). 
This species and the next belong to a group of Phyciodes represented in North 
America by P. leanira(Feld.) and P. fulvia (Edw.), one of the distinguishing characters 
of which is a dark band across the secondaries, in which is a series of yellow spots *. 
From P. leanira the present species differs in having a well-defined row of red spots on 
the secondaries. The bases of the wings are spotless; the costa, too, of the primaries 
is dark brown, and not rufous as in P. leanira. Beneath, the dark marks across the 
cell of the secondaries are wanting. PP. fulvia has more elongated primaries than 
P. cyneas, and much more of the rusty-coloured marking on the distal half of the wings. 
We know but little of this species: the type, a male which we now figure, from 
Oaxaca, and two females from some other part of Mexico, are all we have seen. 
2. Phyciodes cynisca, sp.n. (Tab. XXI. fig. 12.) 
P. cynee affinis, sed maculis supra ferrugineis nullis, fascia posticarum per cellule finem flava multo latiore, et 
subtus anticarum basi eb maculis submarginalibus tantum rufis distinguendus. 
Hab. Muxico, Orizaba (Sallé), Jalapa (Hoge). 
We have four specimens of this species which, agreeing with one another, differ in 
many respects from P. cyneas, as shown above. It is, however, nearly allied to that 
species and to P. leanira of California. 
* This group, with P. theona and P. ezra, would go into Mr. Scudder’s genus Thessalia (Bull. Buff. Soc. 
N. H. ii. p. 265), 
