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and its allies, but with rounder wings, and the spots more evenly distributed over the 
surface of the wings. ‘The colour of the underside of the secondaries is one of the 
chief distinguishing characters of P. boucardi. This is best seen by reference to the 
Plate, where the type is represented. . 
A single example obtained by M. Rébouch at Putla, in Western Mexico, which we 
now figure, was for some time the only one we possessed. Several others have since 
come into our hands from the collection made by Riimeli near Cordova. 
There appears to be great probability that P. bowcardi is a seasonal form of P. vesta, 
as it much resembles the summer form of that species, as represented by Mr. W. H. 
Edwards (Butt. N. Am. Phye. t. 2. figg. 18, 19); but we think it best to keep P. boucardi 
apart for the present, until reared specimens prove its actual position. 
10. Phyciodes vesta. 
Phyciodes vesta, W. H. Edw. Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. ii. p. 871 (1869)’; Butt. N. Am. Phyciodes, 
| t. 2. ff. 18-217, 
Melhtea vesta, Strecker, Cat. Butt. N. Am. p. 120°. 
Eresia graphica, R. Feld. Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1869, p. 470 *. 
P. boucardi persimilis et ejusdem forme, colore magis obscuro posticarum pagine inferioris differt. 
Obs. Forsan forma hiemalis P. boucardi. 
flab. Norta America, Texas!?3.— Mexico, Huahuapan (Hedemann*), Cordova 
(Liimeli); GUATEMALA, San Gerdnimo (Hague). 
Mexican and Guatemalan specimens of this species are rather darker on the upper 
surface than the ordinary Texan examples of it, of which we have a fair series from our 
North-American friends. 
Our single Guatemalan specimen we took to Vienna some years ago, and comparing 
it with the type of P. graphica found them agree, showing that this name and P. vesta 
are synonymous. Which of the two names was first published cannot now readily be 
determined ; but we use Mr. Edwards’s title on account of its having become current in 
the literature of North-American butterflies. 
In Mr. Edwards’s work 2 will be found an excellent account of this species. 
11. Phyciodes pallescens. (Tab. XXI. figg. 18, 19.) 
Eresia pallescens, R. Feld. Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1869, p. 469°. 
P. veste et P. boucardi similis, sed anticis magis elongatis fere sicut in P. pallido, Edw., macula magna 
anticarum extra cellulam costam attingente et iis inter ramos medianos quam relique paulo magis 
flavescentibus; subtus anticis vix nigro maculatis, sed pallide fusco notatis, posticis sordide ochraceis 
fusco indistincte marmoratis. 
Hab. Mexico, Puebla (Hedemann'), Oaxaca (Lenochio). 
We have compared a Mexican specimen in our collection with the type of P. pallescens 
in the Vienna Museum. ‘The species isa somewhat obscure one; and we should not be 
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