302 MALE GENITALIA OF NORTH AMERICAN HESPBRIIDAE 



The seaphium is well developed; the ventral lobe of the valve 

 ends in a serrate, truncate pocket with some stout teeth; the 

 dorsal lobe carries a rod with fine teeth at its apex; the aedoeagus 

 is bent sharply upwards beyond the middle and carries a strong 

 tooth with several points. 



Records: Texas, Corpus Christi (Aaron); Mexico, Alta 

 Mira, Tamaulipas, October; Brazil, Chapada. 



26. Ephyriades brunnea Herrich-Schaeffer (Fig. 26.) 



This species has the costal fold but lacks the tibial tuft. 



It is a West Indian species, reported from Sugar Loaf Key, 

 Florida. R. C. Williams caught a female in Miami, Florida, 

 February 25, 1913. The male is figured by Lindsey.^" Our 

 female has nine hyaline spots on the primaries, seven of which 

 correspond to those on the male of brunnea, and in addition, 

 one minute one on the costa and, one, a streak, below the cell. 

 There are two bands and a basal spot on the primaries of a 

 violet tinge, and an indistinct band, lighter than the brown 

 ground (^olor, on the secondaries. 



We have quite a series of hrannea males, and the females 

 associated with them from lo(;alities in the records given below. 

 We believe the identification is correct, but attention is called 

 to the fact that it is difficult to separate these females from those 

 which have been ascribed to areas Drury (flyas Cramer, veJasquez 

 Lucas) i. e. otreus Cramer {zephodes Hiibner). 



Gundhwdi-^ separates the females by the size of the hyaline 

 spots, stating that those of areas are larger and that the lower or 

 sub-cellular one in brunnea is a line, and in areas is triangular 

 or subquadrate. He further states that he had the originals 

 of zephodes Hiibner, and observed females of this form in coitus 

 with brunnea in Cuba, and his friend Klug observed the same in 

 Porto llico. 



The Cramer figures of jhjas and otreus appear on the same 

 plate, and the habitat in each case is given as Surinam, — cir- 

 cumstantial evidence that they may have come from (he same 

 catch and may be male and female of one specnes. 



There are intergradations, however, in our owji siM'ies, so, 

 against this hypothesis tliat hriiiuica and (ircas^ two very distinct 



»«ri. I, fig. 10. 



"Cont. Ent. Cuba, p. 142, (18SI). 



