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The localities given are Texas and Florida but we doubt very 

 much that this is correct and imagine the species will prove to be 

 South American. 



Chlosyne lacinia Geyer. 



We doubt if any typical specimens of this species as figured by 

 Godman and Salvin (Biol. Cent. Am. Rhop. PI. XIX, Fig. 6) have 

 ever been taken in the United States ; it seems to be confined to the 

 southern portion of Mexico and Central America. The species as it 

 occurs in our territory can easily be separated into two forms. 



(1) The Southern Texas form characterized by broad orange 

 bands on both wings more or less tinged with pale ochreous. In long 

 series from various Texan localities before us we fail to find any 

 great variation on the upper side; what variation there is consists in 

 the reducing of the band of primaries to more or less ovate spots ; we 

 have seen no specimens to which the name saundersi Dbldy. and Hew. 

 could be applied ; in this form described from Venezuela the whole 

 basal area of the secondaries is orange and the band on the primaries 

 broader with scarcely any ochreous tint. Scudder (Buff. Bull. II, 269) 

 has proposed the name adjutrix for this Texan form which seems to 

 us to be an excellent geographical race. 



(2) The Arizona form which Edwards described as a separate 

 species under the name crocale (Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. V, 17) ; this form 

 typically has no trace of orange in the median band on upper side 

 which is punctiform on primaries and narrow but continuous on sec- 

 ondaries ; a variety in which the band is tinged with orange is com- 

 mon and has been named rnfescens by Wright ; another variety with 

 more or less total loss of the band on upper side of secondaries 

 Wright has called nigrescens, but with numerous intergrades these two 

 names are hardly worth holding. We have seen no specimens with 

 total loss of band on both upper and under side of secondaries to 

 which the name adelina Staud. has been given ; this form is figured 

 in the Biologia (PI. XIX, Figs. 16, 17) and is evidently a race not 

 occurring in our territory. 



As far then as our N. American forms are concerned we would 

 suggest the following tabulation : — 



(a) lacinia lacinia Geyer. not U. S. 



(b) lacinia adjutrix Scud. S. Texas. 



(c) lacinia crocale Edw. Ariz. 

 form rufescens Wright. 



form nigrescens Wright. 



