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for the reception of Herrich-Schaeffer's N. hrunnea, because among 

 other things the male has a costal fold on the primaries, while he 

 retains the genus Ephyriades Hiibner as having no costal fold. He 

 includes in the genus Melanthes the species named jamaicensis by 

 Moschler, but calls attention to the fact that the only difference he 

 can discover between brunnea H.-S. and jamaicensis Moschler is the 

 slightly larger size and the larger size of the vitreous spots in the fore 

 wings of the latter. 



The fact of the matter is that we are dealing in this instance with 

 a widely distributed species, in which a number of local races may 

 be recognized. With the material before me from Jamaica, Cuba, 

 Haiti, Porto Rico, the Bahamas, and after a careful inspection of 

 the material preserved at the National Museum in Washington, the 

 American IMuseum of Natural History in New York, and in the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, I have reached the 

 conclusion that it is quite proper in the first place to accept the genus 

 Melanthes of Mabille, and to sink the nondescript genus Ephyriades 

 of Hiibner, at least insofar as it has been used by Mabille as a recep- 

 tacle for the species named otreiis by Cramer and zephodes by Hiibner, 

 the male of which has a large costal fold. If a Hiibnerian generic 

 name is to be used that of Oileides given by Hiibner himself should 

 have the preference. In the second place it is obvious to me that 

 zephodes Hiibner is the female of the insect to a varietal form of the 

 male of which Herrich-SchaefTer applied the specific name brunnea, 

 and to another varietal form of the male of which Moschler gave the 

 specific name jamaicensis. 



In eastern Cuba, Jamaica, and Plaiti the form with large spots on 

 the wings of the females is common. This form may be designated 

 as M. otreiis otreus (Cramer) = zephodes Hiibner. In western Cuba 

 and the Isle of Pines the prevalent form is one in which the spots both 

 in the wings of the males and the females are greatly reduced in size, 

 showing a tendency to become obsolete. This form may be designated 

 as M. otreus brunnea (Herrich-SchaefTer). The form which is most 

 prevalent in Jamaica and in the Bahamas is intermediate between 

 these two, and may be called M. otreus jamaicensis (Moschler). It 

 is not to be accepted, however, as established, that there is no varia- 

 tion in a given locality. Between these forms there are such as inter- 

 grade. On Plate XXXI, figs. 4 and 5, I give the male and the female 

 of the insect as it occurs on the Isle of Pines, and also in figure 3 a 



