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over the veins beyond the cell open to costa, along which the yellow color 

 spreads towards the base. Hind wings bright purple with a very broad 

 yellow central fascia tapering inferiorly, edged with brown or black lines. 

 Fringes pale. Beneath paler, but as above ; base of hind wings entirely 

 yellowish. Thorax brownish purple ; beneath body and legs whitish. 



Expanse 20 mil. Hab. Marengo Co., Ala., coll. Grote. 



So brightly colored and distinctly marked that it can be mistaken for 

 no other species. The fine dark lines edging the yellow patches on 

 primaries may be taken for the ordinary lines and the annuli of the purple 

 stigmata. 



Eurycreon anartalis, n. s. 



Size of sticlicalis and cereralis, but resembling a species of Anarta in 

 color. Fore wings blackish, somewhat grayish about the exterior line, 

 which is broken and fragmentary. Two black discal stains and a black 

 curved streak below submedian vein all faintly visible. Hind wings yel- 

 lowish white, blackish at base, with broad black borders ; before the black 

 borders a curved line of black points. Beneath this curved line is 

 repeated on the yellowish white color which extends to the base of the 

 wing, relieving a rather long curved linear discal streak, the black border 

 as above, interlineated with pale at anal angle. Primaries blackish, with 

 an extra median pale shade. Abdomen yellowish white beneath, blackish 

 above, annulated with white. Clypeus tuberculate. 



Expanse 22 mil. Soda Springs, Cal., Mr. Jas. Behrens, two males. 



Eurycreon ccnnmunis Grote. 



Mr. Belfrage has sent this variable species under the Nos. 372, 373 

 and 375. This latter number covers specimen which, from Lederer's 

 Taf. 12, fig. 3, I take to be rantalis. ^ Under the name communis I have 

 originally described paler, more yellowish specimens (373 of Belfrage) 

 of this same species. They are not ainitalis Led., Taf. 12, fig. 2, for they 

 have the interiorline present as in the typical form figured by Lederer 

 of rantalis. Perhaps Walker has described communis under the name 

 crinisalis, as he gives the interior line present, and crinitalis Led. Zell., 

 which I do not know, may be a different species. Again, it seems to be 

 doubtful whether the Texan species is really the rantalis of Guenee. On 

 page 106 of this volume, line 3, read "a paler form than rantalis" for 



