PROCEEDINGS OF THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 



U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Vol. 83 Washington : 1936 No. 2983 



NOTES ON THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE GENUS ENODIA 

 AND DESCRIPTION OF A NEW FRITILLARY FROM 

 PERU 



By Austin H. Clark 



Vufotor, Division of Echinoderms, United States National Museum 



The capture at Virginia Beach and at Princess Anne, in Princess 

 Anne County, Va., on September 23 and 24, 1934, of a series of 

 about 30 specimens of a satyrid butterfly belonging to the genus 

 Enodia brought up the question of the proper application of the 

 names that have been proposed for the species of this genus^. 



In 1781 Johan Christian Fabricius (Species insectoruni, vol, 2, p. 

 82, no. 363) described Papilio portlandia in the following terms: 



Portlandia 363. P. N. G. alls deutatis fuscis, posticis supra ocellis quinque 

 coecis, subtus septem pupillatis. 



Habitat in America meridionali. Mus. Dom. Yeats. 



Paruus. Alae anticae fuscae versus apicem fascia flauescente maculis 

 tribus ocellaribus atris. Posticae fuscae maculis quinque atris iride 

 flauescente absque pupilla. Subtus fuscae strigis obscurioribus. Anticae 

 versus apicem fascia lata apice bifida alba et in hac ocelli quatuor atri 

 iride flaua, exterioribus pupilla alba. Posticae fascae versus apicem 

 alba et ocello vnico ante fasciam, sex pone fasciam atris vltimis duobus 

 connatis iride flaua pupillaque oblonga argentea. 



This may be translated : 



P. N. G. vpith brovpn dentate wings, the posterior above with five blind ocelli, 

 below with seven pupiled ocelli. Habitat in southern America. In the [John 

 Pattison] Yeats collection. A small species. Fore wings brown, toward the 

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