232 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



There can be no doubt that Herrich-Schaeffer's figure does not repre- 

 sent onagrus as illustrated and described by Guenee. This confusion led 

 me formerly to regard leo and onagrus as varieties of one species, but from 

 my present material I must consider that we have two distinct species. 

 Whether one of these is the leo of Guenee admits of some doubt from his 

 description. But if the species is but slightly variable in the continuation 

 of the two orange lines which break up the mesial blackish stripe, his 

 description will apply. In Herrich-Schaeffer's figure these two lines are, 

 in effect, not continued across the wing, but joined in a sort of horse-shoe 

 mark on internal margin ; but the upper part of the horse-shoe is in reality 

 the continuation of the basal submedian stripe, above which the lines are 

 discontinued. If the outer orange median line alone be continued, then 

 we would have Guenee's spot " tresgrande, en Y plein," which consists 

 of the bent subterminal band joined to the spherical reniform. While I 

 have not before me the exact counterpart of Guenee's description or Her- 

 rich-Schaeffer's figure, I believe it-more reasonable that leo should vary to 

 include both, than that I should suspect a third species in my material. 

 That Herrich-Schaeffer's figure represents an easily understandable variety 

 of my species I have no doubt. 



Spragueia onagrus, Guen., 2, 205, PL 10, fig. 2. 



Fore wings 12-veined, 8 out of 7 a little beyond the extremity of the 

 accessory cell, 9 out of 8, a long furcation to costa. Hind wings 7- 

 veined, cell closed by a weak cross-vein. 



Collected by Mr. Schwarz in Florida. In the character of the fringe 

 of primaries it agrees with leo. It differs by the fusion of veins 8 and 7 

 at base, in which it stands nearest of all the species to Erotyla, but the 

 hind wings are 7 -veined and on primaries vein 9 is longer, as in the other 

 species of the genus. The fore wings are sulphur-yellow at base with a 

 rather broad plumbeous basal streak, a curved line below it above internal 

 margin, which with the rest of the wing is orange, except the sulphur- 

 yellow costal region. The discal spots are distinct, surmounted by three 

 detached costal marks which note the inception of the anterior line, 

 median shade and posterior line. A broad bent dark band on subter- 

 minal space, not continued to costa. A pre-apical costal mark. The 

 first two of the four costal marks nearly fuse with the orbicular. In fresh 

 specimens the colors are very vivid. In colors and ornamentation the 

 species resembles leo. It is distinguished by the absence of the two orange 



