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240a. Apatura clyton proserpina Scudd. is dai-ker with the 

 hind wings much obscured with dusky and the eye spots on both sur- 

 faces nearly obsolete. Habitat of both forms, New York, southward. 

 to the Gulf of Mexico, and westward through the Mississippi Valley 

 into Kansas. 



250. APATURA FLORA. Edw. 



Flora's Gray-wing. 

 ^Nlost like A. clyton, but differs in having both wings more pointed, 

 in being much more reddish orange above, in having the marginal bands 

 wider, the light spot on upper margin of hind wing is absent and the 

 eye spots are larger. Beneath, the colors are clearer and brighter. 

 Expands 1.75 to 2.50, Habitat, Florida and Texas. 



251. APATURA COCLES Lint. 



Blind Gray-wing. 

 Most like A. celtis, but the wings are more pointed than in any 

 known member of the genus. There are two eye spots on fore wing, 

 the lower larger, and the upper has slight indication of a bluish pupil. 

 The central cell has two bars as in A. leilia. Hind wings, with the eve 

 spots larger than in celtis. On fore wings below, are three eye spots, 

 broadly ringed with yellow, but with slightly indicated pupils only. 

 On hind wings the eye spots are large and oval. About the size of A. 

 celtis. Habitat, Texas. 



GENUS XXXV. PAPIIIA. LEAF-WINGS. 



Size, rather large. Colors, orange, or reddish above in- 

 conspicuously banded with darker. Beneath, grayish, band- 

 ed M-ith darker. Antennae, shorter than tlie sliort body, 

 with the club enlarging very gradually. Wings, large and 

 triangular, the apex of fore pair produced into an "acute 

 angle, and there is a tail in the middle of the hind pair, 

 while the inner angle is also ano-ulated. Type, P. troglo- 

 dyta, (Plate VII, 5.). 



252. PAPHIA TROGLODYTA Fab. 

 Orange Leaf-wing. 

 Bright reddish orange above, broadly margined with duskv all 

 around on both wings, excepting lower border of fore pair, There is 



