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C, and 4 fuses with 6. The females of maria from Isle of 
Pines and the H'agen male have the areas all present, but not 
fused as described above. But in carnatica males, areas 4, 0 
and 7 are entirely wanting, 3 is scarcely evident, and 1 is re- 
duced. In the female the same is true, except that 4 may be 
present. 
Cuba: (Ch. Wright), one male, Hagen collection; and prob- 
ably one female, with pin label ‘'Cuba,” in the same collection. 
Isle of Pines: Nneva Gerona, May 6 and 9, (J. L-. Graf), 
four males, one female, Carnegie IMuseum. 
In Scudder’s description of maria, the symbol 9 is used in- 
stead of cf as intended, and line sixteen from the bottom of page 
188, for a narrow lateral stripe read a narrow dorsal stripe. 
Neoneura amelia Calvert (Figs. 25, 26, 64, 65, 9.3, 94 and 105.) 
The male is verj' variable in the amount of black on head, 
thorax and first three abdominal segments. Scarceh’’ any two 
have the same head pattern and occasionally it is even unsym- 
metrical. In dark males the head above has a large, median, 
roughly quadrangular black area posterior and lateral to the 
ocelli, from which area three bars run out on each side to the eye; 
the two anterior bars irregular with enlargements, and rarely, in 
the darkest examples, more or less fused with each other, and 
with the posterior bar; the posterior bar more regular, formed by 
the extension on the dorsum of the head of the black rear. 
There is also a more or less trident-shaped black figure in front 
of the median ocellus. Reduction in black is accomplished by a 
reduction of the two anterior bars mentioned above, which may 
be narrowed or broken into spots, by pale spots appearing in the 
large quadrangular black area, in some cases these pale spots 
fusing and obliterating all this dark area but an irregular longi- 
tudinal bar on either side, and by the trident reduced to a small 
spot on either side opposite the antenna and midway between the 
antenna and the median line. The sides of the thorax and of 
segments one to three may be largel}', or in extreme cases, en- 
tirely black, or almost entirely pale with the black on the thorax 
reduced to narrow lines or spots. The extent of black is certainly 
determined partly but not entirely by age; the Guatemalan 
specimens average much darker than the Costa Rican, and a 
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