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Debis portlandia with colored figures of both surfaces of each sex 

 and of the early stages, and gave a survey of the occurrence, habits, 

 and distribution, v,'hich covers all the forms. His figures of adults 

 represent the form found in the mountains of West Virginia. 



In 1897 (Ent. News, vol. 8, no. 10, p. 236) Dr. Henry Skinner de- 

 scribed Debis creola from specimens sent to him by G. R. Pilate, who 

 had captured them at Opelousas, La., on July 3, 1897. He said that 

 this was probably what Dr. Strecker described as aberration a, based 

 on a specimen from Texas, and added that Dr. A. G. Butler had 

 recognized this species and that there were specimens in the British 

 Museum from the Godman and Salvin collection, and that the great 

 development of the male sexual patch seemed to him to be of specific 

 importance. Dr. Skinner compared his new species with fortlandia. 



In 1926 (Ent. News, vol. 37, no. 2, p. 42) Dr. Skinner said he knew 

 of creola only from the type and allotype in the collection of the 

 Philadelphia Academy and the perfect figure in Holland's Butterfly 

 Book. He said that typical poitlandla vras well figured by Edwards 

 and that the Academy had some nice specimens from as far north as 

 Miniota, Manitoba. The form occurring at Gainesville, Fla., Mobile 

 and Chickasaw, Ala., and Macon, Ga., he called andromacha. 



In 1932 (Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 23^255) Dr. 

 A. Glenn Richards, Jr., considered in some detail Enodia portlandia^ 

 E. p. andromacha^ and E. creola. He examined the male genitalia of 

 all three and found no constant morphological differences. "Any two 

 slides, even of the same form," he said, "will show a number of small 

 differences, but these minute gaps are all bridged over in a series of 

 preparations so that we can account for all differences on a basis of 

 individual variation." He remarked : "The distinctions between the 

 northern and southern races of portlandia are slight and intangi- 

 ble, southern specimens being larger and presenting a somewhat dif- 

 ferent aspect (the value of a separate racial name seems superfluous). 

 Creola, however, is separated in the male by the sex scaling and more 

 triangular fore wing, but I can not separate possible females of this 

 species from large females of andromacha, and know no one who can 

 distinguish them in this sex." He wrote that he found creola and 

 andromacha flying together along a shady river trail southeast of 

 Athens, Clarke County, Ga., and from a single "play-group" several 

 times took a series of andromacha along with a single specimen of 

 c7'eola. 



In 1935 I recorded (Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington, vol. 37, no. 5, 

 pp. 115-116) a typical male of Enodia creola from the Edward T. 

 Owen collection in the United States National Museum that had been 

 taken in Michigan by David Bruce, of Brockport, N. Y., a female of 

 this form from Palos Park, 111., dated July 9, 1911, and another 

 female without data. These individuals are smaller than those from 



