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This is the most variable species. I have a fine series of no 

 specimens from the same locality in Harris Co., Texas, selected 

 from a lot of 2,000 by Mr. Geo. Franck. This shows all the 

 forms listed above except triajigularis, with nearly all conceiva 

 ble intergrades. I am, therefore, compelled to unite colona and 

 reversa, hitherto held apart. The fulvicosta race in Maryland, 

 to which I referred in Entomological News, really varies as much 

 as the Texan form, but never into bright colors or distinct mark 

 ings. It is an albino race of the same species. 



Prof. Smith's triangular is seems to me but an undersized re- 

 versa with the costal portion of the bands cut through. I have 

 Texan specimens closely approaching it, though larger. It is 

 .doubtless constant in its own locality, but I see no reason for re 

 garding it as a distinct species, unless, indeed, we so regard every 

 colony of Haploa. 



3. H. lecontei Boisd. 



leucomelas H.-S. 



a. militaris Harr. 



b. confinis Walk. 



c. harrisii n. ^'>ar. 



d. dyari Merrick. 



e. vestalis Pack. 



f. smithii n. var. 



In the typical lecontei there are besides the marginal stripes an 

 oblique one from apex to inner margin and three transverse 

 stripes. In militaris the basal transverse stripe is obsolete, the 

 median one broken. In confinis the three transverse stripes are 

 obsolete. In harrisii n. var., the oblique stripe is also broken, 

 leaving only a tooth on the internal margin. In vestalis all the 

 dark marks are obsolete. The variety dyari has the marks of 

 militaris or harrisii, but the ground color of both wings is pale 

 buff, not white. This is possibly the form referred to by Strecker 

 as a $ clymene, which was said to have mated with a cf mili 

 taris, producing "hybrids." 



Var. smithii n. var. Size of lecontei and with the markings 

 of that forrri , but the upper part of the oblique band and the costal 

 edges of the transverse bands are broken through. Smith's 

 figures 14, 15 and 16 (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus.,X, 1887, PL XIV) 

 illustrate it. I am in doubt whether this is a form of lecontei or 

 ofconfusa. Were it not for the size, I should unhesitatingly refer 

 it to the latter species, as there is a persistent projecting patch 

 below the end of the cell which seems easily derivable from the 

 normal markings of confusa, but with difficulty from those of 

 lecontei. 



4. H. confusa Lyman. 

 a. lymani n. 7 ar. 



The typical form is beautifully figured by Lyman (Can. Ent., 

 XIX, 1887, plate, ff. 7, 8 and 9.) 



