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Median (outer) band straight or concave. 



Discal spot of hind wing large . lineata Dnice 

 Discal spot of hind wing minute . borro Dyar 

 Median (outer) band of fore wing linear from a costal spot or inegu- 

 lar and confused. 

 Ground yellow ; a straight line across apex from costa to outer 



margin sica Druce 



Ground color orange to brown ; no line across apex. 



Outer line linear, straight, arising from a costal patch. 



Hind wing with a large white-hyaline discal mark with 



yellow spots before it . . . traumatias Dyar 



f-jind wing with discal mark minute or absent. 



Hind wing with a straight distinct mesial line. 



rcmj'e Dyar 

 Hind wing with markings confused and mottled. 



lusia Druce 

 Outer line blotched, irregular or confused. 



Coppery orange; hind wing with coarse rounded retic- 

 ulations with fine ones within . . ingenicula Dyar 

 Heavily brown shaded ; reticulations obscured, mostly 



a few longitudinal lines left . spiasicornis Warren 



Discal spot of hind wing yellow-hyaline ; margin of hind wing clear bronzy 

 yellow ......... callista Dyar 



Dysodia oculatana Clemens. 



Dysodia oculatana Clemens, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 349, i860. 

 VaTnia plena Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus., Lep. Het., xxxiii, 826, 1865. 

 • Platythyris fasciata Grote & Robinson, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, pi. 13, 

 f. 4, 1867. 

 Thyris montana H. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., v, 413, 1874. 

 VaTnia aurea Pagenstecher, Iris, v, 32, 1892. 



This species is widespread through the United States, Mexico, and 

 Centred America, reaching Venezuela. It is generally scarce and local 

 in occurrence. The larva lives in folded leaves on Eupatorium, 



Dysodia vitrina Boisduval. 



Thyris vitrina Boisduval, Mon. Zyg., 19. 1829. 

 This species is unknow^n. Boisduval's figure may have been copied 

 from one by Abbot. He states that he received a drawing of the larva 

 from Georgia, while the description reads as if made from the figure. It 

 seems scarcely possible that the figure could have been made from a 

 specimen of oculatana, though, the size and shape of the discal spots are 

 much the same. The ground color is shown as violet red, the fore wings 

 entirely dark except for a submarginal band of the ground color, cut by 



