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fourth species has been taken in Alabama and Mississippi, namely, pur- 

 purissata Grote, and is the only species associated with a food plant, one 

 of the Leguminosae. 



The species of which males are before me separate as follows : 



TABLE OF SPECIES OF CALYPTOCOME 



Hind wing with the margin evenly rounded. 



Hind wing of ^ below wilh suberect ocher scales over surface except margin; 

 large; dark purplish above, the lines appearing pale, broken. 



concoloraria Dognin 



Hind wing of $ below with basal third covered broadly with raised yellow scales. 



Pale carneous purplish, lines mixed with dark scales, appearing darker than 



the ground. 



Larger ; purplish ; lines generally continuous . exanimaria Dyar 



Smaller ; scarcely purplish ; lines generally broken. 



Costal and terminal edges not conspicuously darker than the lines ; 

 mesial line not strongly developed into a spot. 



fragmenlata Warren 

 Costal and terminal edges darker than the lines, which are slender 

 and obsolescent; an irregular, incomplete, but distinct patch 

 formed out of the mesial line on discal nervules. 



terminata Guenee 

 Darker purplish ; lines metallic ocher with dark edges. 



Lines dark-edged or dark, median and outer generally strongly excurved 

 below, median generally darker, more contrasted than the others. 



pannaria Guenee 



Lines scarcely darker edged, little excurved below, the median not more 



contrasted than the others .... pappasaria Dyar 



Dark purplish ; lines with only a few dark scales, apf>earing ocher, contrasted, 

 somewhat broken or segmented . . . . phryctaria Dyar 



Hind wing of c? below with an oval patch of raised scales on submedian fold 

 near base. 

 Color pale carneous purplish ; dark edges of lines contrasted . hegeter Dyar 

 Darker purplish ; lines metallic ocher, the dark edges inconspicuous. 



Fore wing with the outer margin nearly straight, apex appearing pointed ; 

 beneath without rosy rint .... rectimargo Dyar 



Fore wing with outer margin convex, apex appearing blunt; fore wing 

 below rosy shaded . . . ptyctographa Dyar 



Dark purple or purple-red ; lines pale, fragmentary. 



Outer margin of fore wing evenly rounded, apex appearing square. 

 ' Beneath strongly shaded with dark rosy; hind wing in J* all red 



shaded ...... subruhella Warren 



Beneath lighter rosy shaded; hind wing of S largely pale. 



Larger ; pale costal edge shaded ; marks slender, broken, obso- 

 lescent ..... puTpurata Warren 



