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and two wliitish patches. Hind wings, with a buff border on outer 

 third, and there is a sub-terminal row of buff crescents, in a bro-^Ti patch 

 followed by a scries of arrow-shaped marks in brown, and the center of 

 the base is lined with reddish. Expands, 1.40 to 1.00. Habitat, Cu- 

 ba and Key West, Florida. 



200. ERESIA TEXANA Edw. 

 Texas Spotted Butterfly. 

 Blackish brown above : wings mottled with reddish brown at base 

 of both wings, and sprinkled with white dots that form, on fore wings, 

 an interrupted, sub-marginal band of four spots across end of cell, two 

 in cell and two below it. Hind wings have a decided row of white spots 

 across the middle, and a sub-marginal row of faintly defined crescents. 

 Beneath, on fore wings, ochery yellow at base, then dark brown, becom- 

 ing paler on apex and outer margin. There is a sub-marginal row of 

 crescents, and the white spots seen above are larger. Hind wings have 

 the outer margin broadly edged with brownish that contains a sub-mar- 

 ginal row of whitish crescents, the third from the bottom being largest ; 

 a white band crosses the middle of the wing, and within this, the base 

 is buff and white with an intricate pattern of dark lines. Expands, 1. 

 50. Habitat, Texas and Nebraska. 



201. ERESIA PUNCTATA Edw. 

 Punctured Butterfly. 

 Above, reddish orange with a patch on \ippcr border, near apex, of 

 yellow, and a large, j-ellow spot near this, with a smaller spot at its up- 

 per corner ; inside of this, a third spot near the end of the central cell, a 

 fourth below this, a fifth below this, in a line with a bent line that cross- 

 es the cell, all yellow. Hind wings have a double series of sub-margi- 

 nal crescents, preceded by a yellow streak extending from the lower 

 margin to middle of wing. A broad, yellow, central band, narrowest 

 below, crosses the wing. There are indistinct, reddish marks at base, 

 and a white spot in central cell. Expands, 1.20. Habitat, Arizona and 

 New Mexico. 



GENUS XXL 

 SYNCHLOE. PATCHED BUTTEPtFLIES. 



Size, medium. Colors, dark, brown or black, ^\■itll 

 prominent patches of brilliant colors, orange, yellow or 



