106 [June 



Agassiz). Charleston, S. C. (Scudder). New York (Grote). Md. 

 (Weidemeyer). 



The i^ingle specimen noticed from Texas aflFords indications of a dis- 

 tinct species inhabiting that section. 



After the examination of over fifty specimens of this species, kindly 

 presented me by Mr. Weidemeyer, which were collected in Maryland, 

 I find but slight variation. Some are of richer hues than others; in 

 some the primaries are deeply tinged, while the secondaries are not 

 more pink than usual, or the black border of the hind-wings is remark- 

 ably slight and narrow, and in the others the black border greatly pre- 

 ponderates and sends in broad expansions towards the middle and costa 

 of the wings. In many specimens two minute discal dots are absent 

 on the hind-wings. The fore-wings vary in the relative distances apart 

 of the bands of dots, of the breadth of the white circles around the 

 individual dots, which may be very faint, or stand out conspicuously in 

 the deep orange of the wings. The third band is sometimes inter- 

 I'upted. The accessory short sub-costal branch of the 5th band some- 

 times has the black spots obsolete. On the under side the costal and 

 discal spots of both wings are exposed to considerable variation in 

 their position and disappearance. One % has lemon yellow fore-wings 

 instead of orange, with very minute black dots, often entirely absent. 

 It is in this specimen that the apex of the secondaries are broadly 

 shaded with black, and the discal dot on the hind-wino;s is lar^e and 

 broad. There is no special variation in size, and only that of one line 

 in the expanse of the wings. 



Deiopeia aurea Fitch, Third Rt. Ins. N. Y. p. 168. (1856). 



Morris, Synopsis Lep. N. Amer. p. 251. (1860). 



"Georgia" (Fitch). 



Subfamily ARCTllDiE Leach. 

 CALLIMORPHA Latreille. 

 Hiibner's term Hypercompa was, as he employed it in 1806, (Samm- 

 lung Exot. Schm. Bd. 1.) not a genus, but a group (Stirps) of genera. 

 The type of Latreille's genus was G. Hera which is congeneric with 

 the species enumerated below. In 1816 Hiibner (Verzeichness bek. 

 Schm.), proposed Haploa for C. dt/nip.ae Brown sp. (Illustrations of 

 Zoology) which must be considered as a synonyme of Callimorpha Latr. 



