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toward base, a little nearer to 4 than to 6 ; secondaries rounded, 

 in most of the species longer through the cell than in the related 

 genera. Male stigma small, sometimes scarcely visible, composed 

 of a short, oblique dash above the base of vein 2 and a smaller 

 longitudinal dash below it. Middle tibiae spiny. Fig. 29. 



The checkered fringes of this genus are a convenient super- 

 ficial character, and indeed the only one by which naamo can 

 readily be placed. The other species are readily referred to the 

 genus by the long third joint of the palpi, taken with the api- 

 culus of the antennae. Whether nanno should be left in Ambly- 

 scirtes is a question which I have been unable to settle ; its sim- 

 ilar habitus would cause me to hesitate to remove it. 



Key to the species 



1. Vestiture of under surface of secondaries with no suggestion of green. 2 

 Under surface of secondaries more or less greenish 9 



2. Spots on under surface of secondaries connected by pale lines on 



veins textor 



No such lines 3 



3. Under surface of secondaries with diffused pale spots or immaculate. .4 



With well defined pale spots 8 



With a brown patch in the middle nysa 



4. All maculation above yellow-fulvous cassiis 



Subapical spots of primaries, at least, whitish 5 



5. Secondaries without pale spots below vialis 



With a transverse row of powdery pale spots 6 



6. Maculation of upper surface tinged with yellow-fulvous aenus 



No trace of yellow-fulvous 7 



7. Irroration of under surface smooth, fine altemata 



Irroration with a rough appearance celia 



8. Under surface dark, irroration sparse; spots small and powdery but 



sharply contrasting nanno, elissa 



Under surface finely and smoothly grayish-irrorate; spots very sharply 

 defined, moderate comus 



9. Under surface pale greenish-gray ; primaries with spots between veins 



4 and 6 above ; southwestern species .nereus 



Darker greenish -gray; very bright in fresh specimens; spots at end of 

 cell of primaries usually lacking ; eastern species hegon 



1. AMBLYSCIRTES NANNO 



Amblyscirtes nanno Edw., Papilio n, 142, 1882. 

 Biol. Cent. -Am., Ehop. n, 504, pi. 95, ff. 31-34, 1900. 

 Wright, Butt. W. Coast 250, pi. xxxi, f. 455, 1905. 

 Arizona, July. 



