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Perhaps this may be identical with E. Rermas Hewitson, but as he 

 has not figured the upper side, and described it very vaguely, it is com- 

 paratively impossible to determine anything from his diagnosis. It is 

 only, however, in the outline of the marking that it seems to resemble 

 that species. Their difference in color, and some variations upon the 

 fore wings, have induced me to consider it specifically distinct. 



Eresia Smerdis Hewits. must give place to E. (Melitsea') Texana 

 Edwards, Mr. Edwards having described it in July, 1863; the former, 

 in April, 1864. E. Gijges^ of the same' author, is a synonym o^ E. 

 Frisia Poey, the two being precisely similar. 



4. Eresia Batesii, nov. sp. 



Male. — Fore wings black ; two transverse, maculate, fulvous bands, 

 arising nearly at the costa, and converging to the inner margin ; the 

 cell contains three or four abbreviated bars, none of them extending 

 below the median vein ; the basal half of the area below this nervure 

 is deep black, rarely containing a narrow fulvous streak; a spot of the 

 same color opposite the middle of the outer margin. 



Secondaries black; the two fulvous bands of the fore wings are conti- 

 nued nearly to anal margin, the separating line very much attenuated in 

 the middle; the posterior contains a rounded black spot between each 

 nervule, and beyond these an indistinct row of connected lunules; two 

 fulvous spots within the cell, preceding the first transverse band, the inner 

 semi-encircled by the outer. Fringe white, or whitish, sometimes lightly 

 cut with black at the extremities of the veins. Exp. l.'.^5 — 1.50 inch. 



Under side of the primaries fulvous; a large triangular black patch 

 arising from the middle of the inner margin is connected at its apex 

 with an irreirular, dilating bar runniii<r thence to the middle of the costa; 

 a short bar on the costa between this and the apex ; three connected black 

 lunules, the central much the widest, run from beyond the middle of 

 the innner margin to the third median vein ; sometimes this line is 

 prolonged by the addition ol one or two more very delicate crescents. 



Secondaries ochrey-yellow; indistinct pale fulvous lines near the base, 

 and a row of rounded dots, followed by pale lunules of the same color 

 near the outer margin ; rarely, one of these last is bright ferruginous. 



Body, &c., as in the allied species. 



Female, similar on the upper surface; underneath the reticulations 

 are plainer. Expanse 1.63 inches. 



Ilab. — Winchester, Va. ; Gloucester, N. J. (In my Collection.) 



I take pleasure in dedicating this species to my friend, Mr. II. W. 

 Bates, of London. 



