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L'lupliasis tliat in oiif opiuiuii llie true iwsitiou of the five species in questioii will 

 be tar better understood if kept together, than if distributed over at least four 

 genera. To serve the nuderstaudiug of the true relationship, to show the true 

 couuection between the species, is the ideal object of classification of animated 

 nature, as opposed to mere baptism of the different forms and groups of forms. 



Key to the species : 



a. Breast and legs black .... ;j.j4. P.jdicofasciata. 

 Breast and legs not black . . . . . b. 



b. Distal margin of I'orewing deeply sinuate 



below apex, trilobate at R-', M' and SM'- ij5"J. P. proserpina. 

 Distal margin of forewing very faintly or 



uot all concave below apex . . . . . c. 



c. Underside of abdomen, basal urea of hind- 



wing below, and marginal band of 



hindwing above, ciunamon-rufons. . 550. /'. gaurac. 



Marginal band of hindwing black, under- 

 side of abdomen and base of hindwing 

 below olive-green or greyish green . . . d. 

 (I. Basal area of forewing below ferruginous- 

 orange o.Jl. F.jimnifa. 



Basal area of forewing with the orange 



colour absent or vestigial . . . 553. F. clarkioe, 



550. Prosei'pinus gaurae. 



Si.hiiij: gaurac Abbot & Smith, lii>i. Gmiyia i. p. 01. t. 31 (/., j,., /.) (1797) ; Dune, in Jard., 



^\ltlmll. Lihr. xxxvii. p. lO.S. t. G. f. 3 (/.) (1843). 

 Proserpinut: ymirai; UiihneT, T'.-rv. bek. Sr/n,i. p. 132. n. 1414 (1822); Clem, Jouni. Ac. Nat. Sri. 



PhiUtd. iv. p. 133. n. 9 (1859) (partim) ; id., in Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am. p. 153. n. 1 (1862) ; 



Grote cV: Rob., Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. v. p. 161. 177 (1805) ; Grote, Bull. Buffalo Soc. N. Sc. i. 



p. 20 (1874) (Georgia) ; id., I.e. ii. p. 225. n. 19 (1875) ; Butl., Trans. Zool. Soc. Loml. ix. 



p. 530. n. 3 (1877) (Georgia ; VTexas) ; Grote, I.e. iii. p. 221. n. 21 (1877) (= ?jua>ula) ; 



Dimm. i^- Mann, I'mjche ii. p. 00 (1877). 

 Setki yaiirac, Oken, Lrhrh. Naturg. iii. 1. p. 750. sub c. 4 (1815). 

 Pkrogou gaurae, Harris, in Sillim., Jouni. Sr. Art xxxvi. p. 306 (1839) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. 



p. 039. n. 3 (1892) (partim) ; id., in Allen, Nat. Lihr., Muths ii. t. 97. f. 3 (/). 4 (/.) (1897). 

 Tlii/reuH yaurar, Walker. Liiit Lrp. Ins. B. M. viii. p. 100. n. 3 (1856). 

 PuyociAou gaurae, Boisduval, Spec. Gcii. Lip. llct. i. p. 315. n. 1 (1875) (Georgia) ; Edw., Ball 



U. St. Nat. Mux. XXXV. p. 38 (1889) (liter, rel. to metam.). 

 I'rum-pinus circac Edwards, Pajiiliu ii. p. 9 (1882) (Georgia ; coll. Xeumoegen). 

 !''iy„c(ilvu circeae (!), Grote, Quia, I. Eut. xviii. p. l.il. u. 22 (1880). 

 Lrphesia gaurae, id., /.r. xviii. p. 131. p. 23(1880) (partim); Smith, Traus. Auirr. Eut. S„r. xv. 



p. 115 (1888) (partim). 

 Lcphesia circeae (!), Grote, J/aiok Mutlis N. Am. p. 51 (1880) : Smith, I.e. xv. p. 114 (1888). 

 Lepisesia circae, Ottolengui, Eut. News vi p. 218 (1895) {(^ in coll. Neumoegen). 



S ¥ . I'aljius longer than in the other species, somewhat projecting. Fore- 

 wing distinctly sinuate before hinder angle, sometimes with faint indications of 



teeth at the middle veins. Hindwing orange, waslicd with ferruginous, especially 



at liase ; marginal band reddish cinnamon-rufous ; fringe white, with the short 



scales black. Forewing below without black stigma ; basal areas of both wings 



chestnut, but that of forewing more or less ferruginous in and behind cell ; a 

 triangular apical costal patch including a white oblicpic apical line cinnamon-rufous. 

 Abdomen beneath also this colour, with ^lale edges to the segments. 



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