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Genus CATIA Godman & Salvin. 

 C. druryi Latreille. 



Better known as otho A. & S. ; inhabits the eastern United States. 



It is easily recognized by the peculiar stigma of the male which is a 



further modification of the Tymelicus pattern. 



Genus ERYNNIS Schrank. 

 Synopsis of Species. 



1. Hind wings below with spots united into a band forming pale rays on veins.. 2. 

 These spots divided by dark veins or absent 4. 



2. Band below white 3. 



Band below fulvous manitoboides. 



3. Ground color of hind wings below uniformly dark brown metea. 



1 .round color varied with greenish and yellow unkas. 



Ground color entirely greenish yellow lasus. 



4. Hind wings with white spots below 5. 



Hind wings with the spots not white, yellow, pale or obsolete 7. 



5. A linear white ray in the cell morrisoni. 



At most a white spot in the cell 6. 



<>. Male stigma thick, straight, partly doubled comma. 



Male stigma long, linear, curved juba. 



7. Hind wings with pale spots below 8. 



Hind wings immaculate 9. 



8. Fore wings with the fulvous color reduced, absent from the costal edge..attalus. 



Fore wings with the fulvous color extended, covering costal edge leonardus. 



Fore wings broadly fulvous, the outer margin broadly pale fusccus. 



ruricola, cabelus. 



9. Stigma as usual, thick, subdivided on vein 2 10. 



Stigma narrowly linear, continued over vein 2 II. 



10. Fore wings fulvous with outer fuscous edge pawnee, oregona. 



Fore wings largely fuscous, the fulvous reduced to spots meskei. 



11. Fore wings with a broad dark fuscous edge licinus. 



Fore wings fulvous with a faint marginal cloud Ottoe. 



Fore wings ocher yellow, immaculate yuma. 



E. morrisonii Edwards. 



I have a male from Colorado (Neumoegen, Meske collection). 

 E. comma Linnaeus. 



The species occurs throughout the northern and mountainous parts 

 of the United States and has received many names. In Bulletin 52, 

 l". S. Nat. Mus., eleven varieties are recognized, but I think three 

 or four names will suffice. Laurentina Lyman, Colorado Scudder = 

 manitoba Scudder = nevada Scudder, coluijjJna Scudder, idaho Ed- 

 wards = assiniboia Lyman will be referred to the synonymy of comma. 

 The varietes are distinguished about as follows : 



