Genus Synchloe 
which, if correct, will force us, according to the law of priority, 
to substitute the name given by Bates for that given by Edwards, 
Genus SYNCHLOE, Boisduval 
(The Patched Butterflies) 
Butterfly.— Medium-sized or small butterflies, rather gaily 
colored, although the species found in the United States are not 
very brilliant. They may be distinguished structurally from the 
butterflies of the two preceding genera not 
only by their larger size and the spindle- 
formed third article of the palpi, which in 
the genera Eresia and Phyciodes is thin and 
pointed like a needle, but also by the fact 
that the lower discocellular vein of the fore 
wings is generally quite straight and not 
bowed or angled as in the before-mentioned 
genera. 
Egg. —Similar in appearance to the eggs 
of the genus Phyciodes: obovoid, truncated FiG.94.—Neurationof 
and slightly depressed at top, rounded at the the genus Synchloe , en- 
bottom; the lower three fifths with shallow larged ‘ 
depressions ; the upper part with about twenty-four light blunt- 
edged ribs. The eggs are laid in clusters upon the leaves of 
Helianthus. 
Caterpillar Varying in color, generally black or some shade 
of red or brown, covered with spines which are arranged as in 
the genus Melitcea and are thickly beset with diverging bristles. 
The caterpillar moults four times. 
Chrysalis. —Shaped as in the genus Melitcea, light in color, 
blotched with dark-brown or black spots and lines. 
The genus is well represented in Central and South America. 
Some of the species are polymorphic, many varieties being pro¬ 
duced from a single batch of eggs. The result has been con¬ 
siderable confusion in the specific nomenclature. 
(1) Synchloe janais, Drury, Plate XVIII, Fig. 10, 6 (The 
Crimson-patch). 
Butterfly.—Fore, wings black above, spotted with white; 
hind wings black above, marked in the center with a broad band 
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