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205. SYNCIILOE ERODYLE Bates. 

 Bates' Patched Butterfly. 

 Black above, fore wings -svith seven white spots of various sizes, 

 arranged in a rude circle at end of cell, and a curved row of six similar 

 spots, but of more uniform size, between these and the outer margin, 

 and two near base. Hind wings, with a sub-basal, yellow patch, divided 

 by the black veins and by two small, black spots entering within the 

 central cell. There are two red spots near outer, lower angle. Beneath, 

 similar, but spots at apex of fore wings are yellow, and a vermillion streak 

 on upper margin of base, and the yellow patch at base of hind wing, are 

 more divided by the black spots, and there are additional red spots in cen- 

 ter of wing, and a sub-marginal row of yellow; one yellow spot between, 

 the two pairs of red; two above the middle pair, and a row of yellow 

 spots between these and the yellow base. Expands, 2.00. Habitat, 

 Texas and southward. 



200. SYNCHLOE CROCALE Edw. 



Wiiite-baxded Butterfly. 

 Black above, fringed with white, interrupted at veins. A sub-mar- 

 ginal row of dots on fore wings, four large spots on end of central cell, 

 a dot outside the lowest, two dots below it, and a spot near middle of 

 loAver border, with a dot above it, all white. There is a band of seven 

 spots crossing middle of hind wings, Fig.ol, i. Beneath, also black, 

 spots on fore wings repeated, with an additional marginal row of crescents 

 and a spot within the larger one on lower border, and basal portion of 

 upper border, reddish. Band on middle of hind wing enlarged and yel- 

 lowish, and the spots are confluent; spot outside of band, near border, 

 and a basal line yellowish, and a submarginal band of yellowish crescents. 

 Female with the spot on lower border of hind wing reddish, and there 

 are two rather indistinct bars of reddish between the basal and central 

 bands. Habitat, Arizona. 



GENUS XXII. CYSTINEURA. 

 SHORT-BODIED BUTTERFLIES. 

 Size, small. Colors, pale reddish or j-eRowish, with- 

 out prominent markings. Antennae, not half as long as 

 fore wing. Fore wings, elongated and triangnlar. Hind 

 wings, short and trianonlar. Tvpi:, C. amymone. (Plate 

 V, 4.) 



