W. L. MC ATEE 303 



Other specimens examined include : a female from Onaga, Kan- 

 sas, (F. F. Crevecoeur), [this is labelled Type No. 3440, U. S. N. 

 M. and was part of the type material of Eupteryx flavoscuta Gill- 

 ette]; a male from Plummer's Island, Maryland, March 24, 1907, 

 (W. L. McAtee), [W. L. M.]. The species has been recorded also 

 from Tennessee. 



Erythroneura vitis Harris 



Tcltigonia vitis. Harris T. W. Encyclopedia Americana, viii, 1831, p. 43. 

 It may be well to reproduce the brief original description of this 

 species, as the obsolete work in which it was pultlished is not 

 everywhere available. The description of insect follows: 



"It may be called Uitigonia ritis (Harris). It is, in its perfect state, nearly 

 one tenth of an inch long; of a straw color, with two broad, scarlet bands 

 across the wing cases, one at the base and the other on the middle, and the 

 tips of the \\ing cases are blackish." 



No locality is mentioned, but Harris no doul)t became ac- 

 quainted with the insect in Massachusetts, which state is here 

 designated as the type locality. In the first edition of a Report 

 on the Insects of New England Injin-iousto Vegetation (1841, p. 

 184), Harris slightly amplifies the description of this insect. 

 However, the original description is sufficient for identification 

 as the species is the only one of its size (which alone places it in the 

 Eupterygidae) that has a red band across the bases of the tegmina. 

 Gillette* places vitis Harris as a variety of comes Say, but to the 

 writer these forms do not appear to intergrade. 



The known range of E. vitis extends from Maine, Quel)ec and 

 Wisconsin to the District of Columbia, Mississippi, Kansas and 

 Colorado. 



Key to the Color Varieties 



A. Anterior cross-band extending beyond apex of scutellum at least along 

 costal margin; middle cross-band usually broader, extending to or 

 beyond apex of clavus. 

 B. Middle cross-l)and or saddle-sj^ot t)ounded by nearly or quite unin- 

 terrupted pale bands, like parentheses placed longitudinally on the 



insect var. vitis Harris, p. 304. 



BB. Pale areas bounding middle cro.ss-band in1('rrui)fod or replaced by red 

 markings. 



*Am. Typhlocybinae, 1898, pp. 7(10 to 7()1. 



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