ttlURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



Motes on the species of CAIiLIDRYAS found wifhin the 

 United States. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



Until Mr. A. Gr. Butler, in his "Lepidoptera Exotica," London, 1874, 

 « monographed this group, figuring nearly or quite all the known species, 

 and that in both sexes, the confusion was extreme, and no apology was 

 necessary on the part of other recent authors for any errors they might 

 have fallen into. Now there is no excuse for error. Mr. Butler had all 

 the resources of the British Museum collection and library at command, 

 not to speak of the many other British collections, and his authority is 

 sufficient to settle any doubtful questions in this direction. 



Following the best light I could find, I had given in my Synopsis 

 (Vol. i, Butterflies of North America, 1868-1872), four species as 

 belonging to our fauna. 



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



% Hersilia, Cramer, pi. 173. 

 $ Cipris^ Cramer, pi. 69. 

 9 Cindia, Grodart, Enc. Meth. ix, p. 93. 

 Hub. — Texas ; Florida. 



2. CiPRis, Fabr., Ent. Syst. iii, 1, 212. 

 Hab. — New Mexico. 



3. EuBULE, Linn., Syst. Nat. ii, p. 764. Abbot, Ins. Ga. pi. 5 



Bois. and Lee. pi. 24. 

 Var. Sennae, Linn., Syst. Nat. ii, p. 764. 

 Hab. — Southern States, etc. 



4. Marcellina, Cramer, pi. 163. 



% Eubule, Bois. and Lee. pi. 24. 



Mr. Scudder in a paper entitled " Remarks on the old genus Callidryas," 

 Vol. xvii, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1874-5, followed Mr. Butler, and 

 gave the North American species thus : 



1. Agarithe, 



2. Eubule, 



3. Sennae, 



4. CiPRis, on authority of W. H. Edwards' Synopsis, etc. 



TRANS. AMER. ENT. SOC. IX. (2) FEBRUARY, 1881. 



