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GENUS LXV. ERYCIDES. GREEN SKIPPERS. 

 Size, large. Colors, dark, usually marked with green- 

 ish. Form quite similar to that of the large species of Eu- 

 damus. Type E. urania. (Plate X, 12.) 



605. ERYCIDES URANIA West-Hewt. 

 Clear-spotted Green-wing. 

 Blackish above, white-fringed ; a sub-marginal row of metallic green- 

 ish spots on both wings, and witliin them are long green lines in each 

 interspace. On fore wings are three spots in a band, two outside them, 

 and a triangular cluster of five in apex, all perfectly transparent. Be- 

 neath, spots repeated on fore wings, but with less greenish. ; darker on 

 hind pair where the green is intensified and condensed into four bands 

 of spots. Expands 2.2o. Habitat, Texas and Southward. 



606. ERYCIDES TEXANA Scud. 

 Texas Green-wing. 

 Similar to E. urania, but lacks the green markings of upper sur- 

 face of fore wings and the green of hind wings is lighter. Expands 

 2.25. Habitat, Texas. 



607. ERYCIDES SANGUINEA Scud. 

 Red-spotted Green-wing. 

 Blackish above ; in cell of fore wing is a blood red spot and another 

 smaller, above it ; base of fore wings streaked with metallic blue ; white- 

 fringed on both wings. Lower surface, similar. Expands 2.10. Hab- 

 itat, Texas. 



608. ERYCIDES BATABANO Lef 

 Bluish Green-wing. 

 Above, smoky brown strongly violet-tinted, fore wings without mark- 

 ings ; hind wings with a sub-marginal series of elongated bluish green 

 spots. Beneath, on fore wings paler, purplish-tinted, a little greenish 

 along upper margin and on base : hind wings similar to above, but deep- 

 er in color. Expands 2.30 to 2.60. Habitat, Florida and Cuba. 



eOf). ERYCIDES AMYNTAS Fab. 

 Key West Skipper. 



Dark brown above, with strong purplish reflections, a white glassy 

 bar extends asross cell of fjre wing, beluw this is a larger spot, and an- 



