10 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



In my Catalogue 1877, following Mr. Butler, I gave 



1. EUBULE, 



2. Sennae, 



3. Agarithe, 



4. Philea, 



striking out Gipria as more than doubtful. 



Mr. Strecker, Syn. Cat. etc., 1878, with no reference to Butler's, gives : 



1. Argante, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 470, 



S ITersilia, Cramer, 2, pi. 173. 



2. EuBULE, Linn., Syn. MarceUina. 



? Var. Sennoe. 



3. CiPRis, Fabr., Ent. Syst. 3, p. 212. 



Neoci/pris, Hubner, Saml. 



Bracteolata, Butler, Scudder, Proc. Zool. Soc. 458. 



Finally in the Synoptic Table of Lepidoptera, printed in Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society, Vol. i. No. 9, January; 1879, we have : 



1. EuBULE, Linn. 



9 var. Sennae, Linn. 



2. Argante, Fabr. 



3. Philea, Linn., evidently without knowledge of Butler or Scudder. 



Recent authors therefore differing so much, I think it well to present 

 again Mr. Butler's view of these species, as his volume is not accessible 

 to many Lepidopterists. 



1. Argante, Fabr., Syst. Ent. p. 470, is not a North American 

 species, but the species found within the United States and taken for 

 Argante is Agarithe, Boisduval. The most northern locality given by 

 Butler for Anjante is Oaxaca ; then Honduras, and Central and South 

 America. Argante is characterized by a " zigzag discal series" on under 

 side, etc., and Butler refers to Swainson's Illustrations for a Plate on 

 which he says both sexes are correctly figured. This is in First Series, 

 Swain. Illus. Vol. i, pi. 52. The "zigzag band" is shown to be com- 

 posed of two oblique red-brown stripes nearly parallel to each other, one 

 under the other, but unconnected. Mr. Butler's figures show the same 

 peculiarity. I know of no North American orange species which has 

 this sort of stripe. 



2. Agarithe, Bdv., Spec. Gen. i, 623 ; described by Butler, thus ; 



'•■ Male.— Y&ry similar to Argante, but paler, the front wings more produced at 

 apex; below differs from Argante in the oblique band of front wings ivhich is con- 

 tinuous and not angulaied as in Argante. 



