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classed as a distinct species, is entirely green, but with the posterior half 

 of the wings sometimes strongly infuscated in the cells. As occurring in 

 the United States, I do not see how the two forms can be specifically 

 separated, as there are no similar distinctions in the very variable male, 

 which is never green, but in which the tegmina may be wholly hyaline 

 except along the costal margin, or they may be flecked with fuscous, or 

 wholly suffused with fuliginous, while the wings vary from wholly hyaline 

 to wholly fuliginous, with a tendency to a greater amount of fuliginous 

 posteriorly. In some specimens from Las Cruces, N. Mex., the base of 

 the wings is feebly violet. The species appears to be even more variable 

 in Mexico, and the South American forms referred to dimidiata seem 

 also to belong here. In the United States it is found (both forms 

 indiscriminately) along the entire southern tier of States and territories 

 from Florida to Arizona (Ft. Buchanan, south of Tucson, and Ft. 

 Whipple, near Prescott), but I have neither seen nor heard of specimens 

 from the Pacific Coast proper. From here it ranges north to Maryland, 

 southern Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and Utah, to judge from specimens 

 seen by me. It is also reported from New Jersey [Smith], Pennsylvania 

 [VVestwood], Kentucky [Garman], and Nebraska [Bruner]. Saussure 

 credits it to Cuba and Bolivar, accordingly, places it in the Cuban list, but 

 says it does not exist in the Gundlach collection. On the other hand, I 

 have received it from Gundlach under the number l^. It is also found at 

 Key West. It is in the highest degree probable that Thomas's Afa?iiis 

 Wheeleri belongs to this species and probably to the form named tolteca 

 by Saussure, which Saussure and Zehntner have separated as a distinct 

 species. It seems to me rather a geographical race. 



6". linibata (viridimargo and cellular is Burm.; longipemiis Sauss.) 

 has never been reported from the United States, but is found on our 

 extreme Southern borders, as I have seen specimens taken at Matamoras, 

 Mex., just over the border, on the Rio Grande ; from the old Ringgold 

 Barracks, on the lower Rio Grande [Schott] ; an unspecified point in 

 Texas, Schaupp [Henshaw] ; Arizona, Morrison [Henshaw] ; and Las 

 Cruces, N. Mex. [Cockerell]. 



GoNATisTA Saussure. 



We have a single species of this genus in the United States, G. 

 grisea (Fabr.). which has many synonyms. It occurs in Cuba and San 

 Domingo, and rarely in the Eastern United States, where it is probably an 

 interloper. I have specimens from Key West and Fernandina, Fla., and 

 from Georgia, and recently Mr. Blatchley sent me a specimen taken in 

 Indiana. It was figured by Glover (pi. i6, figs. 13-15) as from Florida. 



