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surprised to find that its relationship to the North-American P. phaon and its allies is 
closer than we are able to trace at present with the scanty material before us. 
We have figured a male from Oaxaca, Mexico. 
12. Phyciodes elada. (Tab. XXI. figg. 6, 7.) 
Eresia elada, Hew. Ex. Butt. Eresia, t. 7. ff. 54, 55°. 
Eresia socia, R. Feld. Verh. k.-k. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1869, p. 470’. 
P. veste et P. boucardi quoad alarum paginam superiorem valde similis, sed subtus valde distinctus, anticis 
fuscis fulvo maculatis, posticis fasciis tribus nigro marginatis, una basali, altera per cellule finem, altera 
lunulosa submarginali, inter has maculis fulvis nigro marginatis ornatis. 
Hab. Muxico 1 (Deppe, Hedemann*), Palmarito (Forrer), Oaxaca (Lenochio). 
Hewitson’s figure of P. elada represents an insect with smaller spots than the 
specimens we attribute to this species, which agree, in fact, with the type of P. socia 2, 
with which we have compared the specimen from Oaxaca we now figure. As some 
variation is present in the specimens in our collection, and as still more may be 
reasonably looked for in a larger series, we are unwilling to admit the distinctness of 
P. socia from P. elada. It remains a question whether P. imitata will not hereafter 
prove to belong to the same species. So few specimens have come into our hands, 
and we have seen so few in other collections, that we hardly feel in a position to speak 
positively on the value of these names. 
13. Phyciodes imitata. (Tab. XXI. figg. 8, 9.) 
Melitea imitata, Strecker, Lep. Rhop.-Het. p. 180°; Cat. Butt. N. Am. p. 189°, 
Melitea ulrica, W. H. Edw. Can. Ent. ix. p. 189°. 
P. elade valde similis, sed maculis omnibus fulvis pagine alarum superioris subequalibus et multo majoribus 
distinguendus. 
Hab. Norra America (Texas }*).—MeExico, Cordova (fide Strecker). 
This species was described by Messrs. Strecker and W. H. Edwards about the same 
time from Texan specimens under different names, their identity being shown by 
Mr. Strecker in the Appendix to his Catalogue of North-American Butterflies!. Our 
acquaintance with the species is due to the kindness of Mr. Strecker, who sent us a 
specimen from Cordova, Mexico, which we now figure. 
P. imitata obviously belongs to the same group as P. elada; and the only doubt we © 
have respecting it is whether it may not prove to be an extreme form of that species. 
A good series of specimens is necessary to determine this point. 
Another near ally of P. elada is P. larunda (Strecker) = P. dymas, W. H. Edwards, 
also a Texan species, of which we have a specimen from Arizona sent us by Mr. Henry 
Edwards. This, too, most probably occurs within our limits. 
It differs from P. elada in having black spots on the basal half of the secondaries 
beneath, as well as other characters. 
