12 BULLETIN 190, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Feinale. — Like the typical exitiosa but with the hindwing heavily scaled 

 between the space of the two inner veins, dividing the clear area into two 

 parts. This variation occurs more or less throughout the range of the 

 species. 



Type. — Female. In the American Museum of Natural History. 



SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA form EDWARDSII BeutenmuUer 



Sanninoidea exitiosa var. edzvardsii Beutenmuixer, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 12, p. 160, 1899; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 269, 1901.— 

 McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States 

 of America, pt. 2, No. 8691, 1939. 



Female. — Like the type form with abdominal segments 4 and 5 orange 

 and the space between the two inner veins of the hindwing more or less 

 covered with scales. 



Type. — Female. In the American Museum of Natural History. 



Remarks. — This variation replaces or nearly replaces the normal form 

 of the species northward, in western New York and Canada. Otherwise, 

 the variation is found occasionally only. 



SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA form LUMINOSA (Nenmoegen) 



SanniiM exitiosa var. luntinosa Neumoegen, Ent. News, vol. 5, p. 331, 1894. 



Sanninoidea exitiosa var. luminosa Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 8, p. 126, 1896; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 269, 1901.— 

 McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of 

 America, pt. 2, No. 8691, 1939. 



Male. — In the original description, based on exceptionally fine, lustrous, 

 newly reared examples, the author enthusiastically describes the golden 

 metallic sheen of his specimens. These beautiful reflections, alas, have 

 greatly dulled with time. The types retain the narrow golden-yellow bands 

 on all the abdominal segments but otherwise agree with typical male 

 examples of exitiosa. 



Type. — Male, collected at Long Island, N. Y. In the United States 

 National Museum. 



SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA race BARNESII BentenmiUler 



Sanninoidea graefi var. barnesii Beutenmuller, Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 272, 1901.— McDuNNOUGH, Check list of the Lepidoptera of 

 Canada and the United States of America, pt. 2, No. 8693, 1939. 



Male. — Like typical exitiosa but with the transverse mark and the outer 

 wing margins much broadened, black, more or less intermixed with golden 

 scales on transverse mark and on costa, above and beneath. The abdominal 

 segments are all narrowly banded yellow. LTnbanded examples have 

 proved to be old and too greasy for redemption. 



Feinale. — Like typical exitiosa with abdominal segment 4 orange, a 

 character the forms fitchii and edwardsii lack, The primary wings appear 



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