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cally distinct from howardi when we have specimens from the other 

 southern states. 



Genus POANES Scudder. 

 P. massasoit Scudder. 



From the Atlantic states. 



Genus PHYCANASSA Scudder. 

 P. viator Edwards. 



From the Atlantic states, common southward. 



Genus CALPODES Hubner. 

 C. ethlius Cramer. 



From Florida and Texas, the larva on Canna. / 



Genus ATRYTONE Scudder. 

 Synopsis of Species. 



1. Fore wings of the male with the disk broadly fulvous 2 



Fore wings of the male with the disk brown with fulvous spots melane 



2. Hind wings below brown with a large yellow patch hobomok 



Hind wings below yellow with a subbasal brown band 3 



3. Smaller ; the band below usually continuous zabulon 



Larger; the band below broken into spots or obsolete taxiles 



A. melane Edwards. 



From southern California. 

 A. hobomok Harris. 



Inhabits the Atlantic states. 

 A. zabulon Boisduval & Leconte. 



Inhabits the Atlantic states. 

 A. taxiles Edwards. 



Inhabits the western United States. 



Genus LERODEA Scudder. 

 I am unable to separate the genus Oligoria Scudder from LeroJca, 

 and I, therefore, unite them. 



Synopsis of Si'kcies. 



1. Hind wings with distinct white spots below 2. 



Hind wings without white spots below 3. 



2. Spots in a median row only maculata. 



Spots in a median angled row and subbasal ones also loam mi. 



3. Hind wings below brownish with traces of outer pale band eufala. 



Hind wings below cinereous, longitudinally streaked Osyka 



