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Cuba, New Grenada, or our Southern Slates. It is as vain to hope for 

 constancy in this particular as it is in the suffusion of the already closely 

 placed spots. Every possible form from one very faint white ocellus to 

 four distinctly marked ocelli may be found. In some of the black 

 spots, which to the naked eye seem devoid of any trace of ocelli, the 

 pocket lens will show an occasional white scale ; present as a veritable 

 mocker at the stabdity of "msu/an's, n sp." 



The sixth characteristic, if such it mav be termed, viz : habitat, 

 has already been exploded by what we have said c)f the authorities who 

 have given tkiniUce a home in the Antilles. To that list might be added 

 such well known catalogues as Dr. Strecker's "Butterflies and Moths of 

 North America," and Mr. Scudder's "Synonymic List of American 

 Nymphales." Both of these authors give the Antilles as a habitat for 

 vanilLe, as does also Snellen in his report on the Diurnals found on the 

 Island of Curacao, in the Tidschrift voor Entomologie, Vol. '^o, p. 20. 

 One naturally wonders who the authors were that Mr. Mavnard con- 

 sulted on this subject, when such well known and constantly used works 

 of reference were overlooked. There are four species of the Agrau/is 

 group that are known to have been found in the West Indies. 



Before closing this paper it will be of interest and will still further 

 show the uncertain condition of this "new species" to offer a few notes 

 on some of the more remarkable specimens over which I have looked in 

 preparing this paper. Two specimens from " Hacilada de Bledos ", 

 Mexico, (Dr. Palmer) have unusually bright red coloring and deep 

 markings, but they also have the insiilaris measurements In one of 

 these there is a pupil in both of the inner cell-spots, and none whatever 

 in either of the outer. Two specimens from New Grenada, in the Titian 

 R. Peale collection, have but one white spot ; in general color thev are 

 insularis, but in measurements and proportions they are vanilke. Two 

 frcMii the Island of St. Thomas and three from Cuba (all in the Peale 

 collection) are all of the vanillie form. In the St. Thomas specimens 

 there is a tendency to entire obljteration of the ocelli. One of the speci- 

 mens from Cuba ("from Ramon de la Sagra, 1833") has 3 ocelli, and 

 another from the same island is a typical vanillce in every particular. 

 A specimen from Guanoxuato, Mexico ("Prof Millington, 1835") has 

 the inner spots apart more than their own width. Beneath it is peculiar 

 in that it has the outer spots in cell fused into a large tripartate nacre 

 spot with a black inter-bordering. A specimen from San Domingo 

 (Frazar) though of the ifisularis form has the inner two spots not only 

 widely separated, but has the lower one nearly wanting, thus presenting 

 the very opposite of fusion. 



Entomologica Americj^na. Vol. V. 2 Decembek, 1889. 



