382 guxdlach's work on the odoxata of cuba 



Width of the black mid-dorsal thoracic stripe .33-.63, of pale antelmmeral 

 .42-. 63, of black humeral, from a mere line to .14 mm. 



Second lateral thoracic suture with a black stripe on its uppermost fourth 

 or fifth onl}-. 



Black on dorsum of abdominal segment nine narrowing caudad, reaching or 

 not reaching the hind margin of the segment. 



Abdomen c? 24-28.5, 9 24-28; hind wing d" 15.5-18, 9 18-19; costal edge 

 of stigma, front wing, cf.46-.7, 9 .7-.84 mm. 



Variations. The extent of black and of yellow (or orange) on the iiasics 

 varies greath', even in specimens taken at the same locality on the same day. 

 Thus, all tbe patterns shown in figures 3, 8 to 11, plate XXXIII, are represented 

 in the males from Black Lake, New York. August 2, 1898, while still another male 

 from the same place and date has the basal black line broken into a median 

 and two lateral pieces, the median piece connected by a very fine black line 

 with the submarginal black stripe. The single males from Toronto, Ontario, 

 and from Palm Beach, Florida, have the nasal and frontal patterns very nearly 

 as in figure 9. The male from Simonton Lake, Indiana, has the nasus similar 

 to figure 9, except that the submarginal black stripe is asymmetricalh' divided 

 into two short stripes. One Bluffton male has the basal black line represented 

 by three dots, the two lateral dots each connected narrowly with the sub- 

 marginal black stripe, which latter consists of a median dot and a lateral streak 

 each side; the other Bluffton males have the nasal pattern as in figures 3, 8 

 and 9. The submarginal black is broken into three sections in the male from 

 Rome City, Indiana, and one from Clemen ton. New Jersey; in them the basal 

 black stripe is continuous and is connected with the respective lateral sections 

 of the submarginal black stripe. In the four Bluffton females, the nasal 

 pattern is as in figures 3, 9 or 10, in the three females from Pemigewassett 

 Pond, New Hampshire, as in figure 3. 



The most frequent /ro«Ya/ pattern in the males is that of figure 3. It also 

 varies in the same locality, e. q.. Black Lake (c/. plate XXXIII, figures 8 to 11). 

 The pale color of the anterior frontal surface may reach the yellow spot in 

 front of the median ocellus on one side onh^ (right — Oklahoma, left^ — one 

 Bluffton) and not on the other; in one instance in which it reaches the spot 

 on both sides, the transverse line which remains is broken into two short iso- 

 lated black lines (one Bluffton male). The most frequent frontal pattern in 

 the females is that of figure 10. 



The pale spot lying immediateh^ anterior to each lateral ocellus (<•/. figure 3) 

 varies from complete absence (one male, Hurdstown River) to a size greater 

 in diameter than that of an ocellus. 



The dorso-latcral pale spot on the disk of the middle prothoracic lobe is 

 sometimes confluent with the pale color of the lateral surface (Simonton 

 Lake cf, 4c?', 3 9 Bluffton, Rome City 9, Sawkill Pond cf, 1 d^ Clementon, 

 1 cf Black Lake), or confluent with the pale submedian stripes (Rome City cf , 

 Oklahoma (J", Angola 9). The pale submedian stripes may be absent (3 6^ 

 Pemigewas.sett, 1 c?' Clementon, River Styx cf, 2 6^ Hurdstown River, 1 cf 

 Black Lake). 



The black eighth abdominal segment of tlie male frequently has its hind 

 margin, caudad of the anteapical spinules, narrowly l)lu('. Tlic lilue ninth 



