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Georgia in the National Museum collected by Dr. Kichards and are 

 also smaller than the t%YO figured by Dr. W. J. Holland, which I have 

 been permitted to examine through the courtesy of Dr. Hugo Kahl, 

 of the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh, Pa. 



On September 1-3, 1935, I found Enodia creola fairly common 

 along the western border of the Dismal Swamp (Nansemond escarp- 

 ment) in Nansemond County, Va., from Suffolk southward, and also 

 farther west. Here it occurs in company with E. fortlandm^ in some 

 places in about equal numbers. East of the Dismal Swamp, and in 

 the wetter woods generally, only E. portlandia was found. In life 

 both sexes of E. creola are easily distinguishable from the correspond- 

 ing sexes of E. portlandia at some distance. Belligerent males of E. 

 creola are extremely quick in their movements, resembling vanessids. 



The specimens from Princess Anne and Virginia Beach (pi. 22, 

 figs. 3, -4) agree so closely with povtland'm as described by Fabricius, 

 and with androniacha as figured by Hiibner, as to leave no doubt 

 of their identity. Twenty additional specimens in the collection 

 of the United States National Museum (of wdiich 13 are in the 

 Barnes collection) agree with them. These are from the following 

 localities : 



Mississippi: Vicksburg, George Donier, September 190S (1). 



Alabama: Cbiekasaw, Mobile County, W. C. Dukes, May 21, 1921 (1); June 



19, 1921 (4) ; 20, 1922 (2) ; 25, 1922 (2) ; August 1, 1920 (1) ; 8, 1920 (2) ; 



15, 1920 (1) ; October 22, 1922 (1). 

 Florida: Gainesville, May 1922 (2). 

 South Carolina: Charleston (1). 



New Jersey: Palisades, George P. Engelliardt, July 20, 1908 (1). 

 Amerique se:ptentrionale: From the Boisduval collection (1). 



The form called Enodia fortlandia andromacJut by Richards is 

 the same as that represented by these specimens. 



A quite distinct form is that referred to as ab. a $ by Strecker, 

 as DehiH creola by Skinner, and as Enodia creola by Richards (pi. 22, 

 figs. 5, 6). This form is now known to range from northern Illinois, 

 Michigan, and Virginia southward to northern Georgia, southern 

 Louisiana, and Texas. It is still rare in collections. 



A third form, occurring in the East from southern New Hamp- 

 shire southward to the higher altitudes of North Carolina and pos- 

 sibly farther (pi. 22, figs. 1, 2) is lighter, less brightly marked, and 

 usually smaller than true 'portlandia. This is the form referred to 

 as 'portlandia by Skinner and Richards, and by American authors 

 generally. It is locally frequent in the mountains of Virginia, 

 where its quick and active movements and its habit of keeping gen- 

 erally low down in the underbrush distinguish it rather sharply 

 from the less active and commonly high flying true portlandia of 

 the coastal region. Since none of the names that have been pro- 

 posed for species of this genus is applicable to it, it may be known as 



