BUTTERFLIES OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 225 



Males from Newtonville, Mass. (pi. 54, figs. 1, 2), taken on July 

 IT show less wear than those from Beltsville taken on July 15 (pi. 

 54, figs. 3, 4). In the vicinity of Boston they first appear about 

 July 10, and the earliest date can not here be very much in advance 

 of this. 



When compared with this series from eastern Massachusetts the 

 local males are found to show slight average differences which, how- 

 ever, are trivial. They are slightly smaller and somewhat darker, 

 with the yellow markings on the fore wings rather less extensive. 

 Some of them are very dark, with the yellow on the hind wings 

 reduced to a mere trace, consisting of two short dashes, and the yel- 

 low on the fore wings reduced to a band beyond the stigma which is 

 about as broad as the stigma itself, a short, narrow dash just beyond 

 the anterior end of the stigma, and one or two minute subapical 

 spots. 



Genus POANES Scudder 



POANES MASSASOIT HUGHI A. H. Clark 



Southern Hoveeing Skipped 

 Plate 53, Figures 3, 4, 7, 8 



Diagnosis. — Resembling P. m. massasoit but slightly larger and 

 darker, the females with the yellow markings above reduced to small 

 spots and partly, or sometimes completely, absent. Beneath with 

 the costal and outer border of the fore wings and the ground color 

 of the hind wings much darker and more reddish than in P. m. mas- 

 sasoit, and the yellow markings on the hind wings less extensive. 

 Yellow markings on the hind wings beneath consisting of a broad 

 yellow band, often more or less obscured except for the inner end 

 and the outer third or fourth with rusty, as wide as the interspace, 

 which basally extends for a short distance within the cell and out- 

 wardly ends at a distance from the outer border which is somewhat 

 greater than the length of the fringe ; above the outer third of this 

 band is a small, yellow, oblong spot, not twice as broad as long, 

 with sometimes a similar or smaller one above it ; between the outer 

 end of the band and the abdominal border of the wing is a series 

 of two or three oblong spots, which are usually about twice as long 

 as broad. 



T^pes.— Male, U.S.N.M. No. 34439; female. No. 34440. 



Comparisons. — Compared with a series of five males and one female 

 (pi. 53, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6) from a bog in the woods at Weston, Mass., 

 taken on July 9, 1923, the specimens from Beltsville average slightly 

 larger, while the color is uniformly darker in both sexes, being 

 blackish brown, the darkest males with violet reflections. 



