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the primaries beyond the cell. The white fringe on the under side 

 of the secondaries extends to the apex of the wing. It has a much 

 wider distribution than was formerly supposed. It would be 

 interesting to know its northern limit in California and its relation 

 to tristis from the standpoint of distribution. 



Nisoniades plautus Scudder and Burgess, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Histi, xiii, 

 304, 1870, figs. 16L, 16R, 16LB., 16Rb. 



Type locality. — Florida. From the peculiar construction of the 

 right harpe (fig. 16R) I doubt that this species belongs to the genus 

 Thanaos and at present I have been unable to recognize the species. 



Nisoniades llano Dodge, Can. Ent., xxxv, 78, 1903. 



Dyar (Journ. New York Ent. Soc, xiii, 119, 1905), says he 

 examined the type of llano and the species was Chiomara gesta 

 Herrich-Schaeffer. See Biol. Ceat. Amer., Lepii, ii, 455, t, 91, 

 figs. 7, 8, 9, male. Distribution. — Texas, Mexico, Central America, 

 South America, Cuba, Jamaica. 



Nisoniades protillo Lucas, Sagra, Hist. Cuba, 461, 1856. 

 Doll. Ent. News, xv, 351, 1904. Brownsville, Texas. 



This belongs to the genus Cabares, Biol. Cent. Amer., Lepid., ii, 

 337, t. 80, figs, 24, 25, 26, 1894. Distribution.—Texas, Mexico, 

 Central America, South America, Cuba, Jamaica. 



The species may be listed as follows : 



icelus horatius 



brizo virgilius 



var. somnus petronius 



callidus propertius 



lacustra tibullus 



burgessi clitus 



persius tatius 



var. pernigra terentius 



var. lucilius ovidius 



var. afranius naevius 



martialis funeralis 



aiisonius tristis 



juvenalis lilius 



ennius pacuvius 



scudderi 



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