84 IOWA STUDIES IN NATURAL HISTORY 



1. CAT I A OTHO 



Papilio otho A. & S., Lep. Ins. Ga. i, 31, pi. 16, 1797. 



Hesperia drury Latr., Enc. Meth. ix, 767, 1823. 



Thymelicus pustula Geyer, Zutr. exot. Schmett. iv, ff. 625, 626, 1832. 



Redone aetna Scud, (not Boisd.), Syst. Bev. 58, (79), 1872. 



Scudder, Butt. New Eng. n, 1696, 1889. 



Biol. Cent.-Am., Bhop. II, 482, pi. 93, f. 18, $ gen., 1900. 



Florida and Texas, May and June. 



The southern specimens which I refer to otho tend to a reddish shade 

 on the under surface; on the upper surface of the secondaries there are 

 some discal spots, while the primaries have fulvous on the basal half of 

 the costa, a complete series of subapical spots, and sometimes other ful- 

 vous marks in addition to those found in egeremet. 



la. race EGEREMET 

 Hesperia egeremet Scud., Proc. Ess. Inst, in, 174, 1863. 

 Pamphila ursa Worth., Can. Ent. xn, 49, 1880. 

 Hesperia cinna Plotz, Stett. ent. Zeit. xliv, 58, 1883. 

 Scudder, Butt. New Eng. n, 1696, 1889. 

 Holland, Butterfly Book 351, pi. xlvi, ff. 28, 29, 1898. 



United States and southern Canada, west to the Eocky Mountains; July. 

 Texas in October. 



Under surface pale fuscous, sometimes tinged with brown; secondaries 

 rarely with a trace of discal marks above, and pale spots of primaries lim- 

 ited to three or less beyond the stigma and one or two subapical points. 



The females of otho and egeremet have the same pale marks as the males. 



^gSSBfoi^ G enus POANES Scudder 



Poanes Scudder, Syst. Rev., 55, (76), 1872. 

 ^^^ Type Hesperia massasoit Scud. 



^$$7^ Phycanassa Scud., op. cit. 56, (77). Type Hes- 

 peria viator Edw. 

 Paratrytone Dyar, Jn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xiii, 136, 

 1905. Type Pamphila howardi Skinner. 



Palpi oblique; second joint shaggy, third 

 small, not long though sometimes rendered 

 prominent by its vestiture. Antennae about 

 one-half as long as primaries; club large, api- 

 culus varying from rather slender and slightly 

 shorter than thickness of club to long, thick, 

 Fig. 27. Antennai tapering and not well reflexed. Primaries 

 vMor\ P ?Z e /asou, trigonate ; costa slightly convex; outer margin 

 c. hobomok^taxiies, lightly to prominently rounded ; apex rather 



