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use of the genus, but credit it to Godman & Salvin. The genus con- 

 tains those species with stigma in $ and long point to antennal club 

 as in Euphyes Scud, but differing in having spined mid-tibiae. Dyar 

 includes scudderi Skin., howardi Skin, and aaroni Skin, in this genus. 

 Removing scudderi from the group along with howardi and aaroni 

 we would associate yehl Skinner, which has also spined mid-tibiae. 

 Scudderi we would associate with snozvi Edw. and place both for the 

 present in the genus Atrytonopsis G. & S. ; we imagine that yuma 

 Edw. will take priority over scudderi; the type is apparently lost, but 

 the description certainly fits this species excellently. 



Calpodes coscinia H. S. 



Godman & Salvin place this species, as a doubtful synonym of 

 ares Feld., in the genus Prenes and are followed in this course by 

 Dyar. Our specimens from Brownsville, Tex., which agree well with 

 the figure in the Biologia, show spined mid tibiae and would appear 

 better referred to Calpodes. Herrich-Schaefer in his description of 

 coscinia also mentions the spined mid-tibiae ; possibly two species are 

 involved and the unspined form is the true ares Feld. For the pres- 

 ent we think it would be wise to retain the name coscinia H. S. in our 

 lists. 



Atrytonopsis marginata Skin. 



On examining the type we found that this species could scarcely 

 be separated from python Edw. (figured by Wright Fig. 479) and Dr. 

 Skinner concurred with us in this opinion ; for the present the name 

 may be left and applied to the New Mexican form which may prove 

 distinct enough when long series have been compared to warrant a 

 racial name. 



A. cestus Edw. 



The single $ type of this species is in the Neumoegen Coll. and 

 we were surprised to find that the species passing under this name 

 was not the true cestus at all; cestus is closely related to python but 

 larger, the spot in cell 2 of the primaries being very large and triangu- 

 lar; the underside of the secondaries is marbled with purplish and the 

 spots are semihyaline ; the species is apparently rare as we only know 

 it from the single type specimen. 



