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is Daman's sa.me as Depuiseti, Bois., Lep. Guatemala, p. 1 1, as 

 Kirby states, Boisduval says the marginal border of primaries in 

 Depuiseti is deeper than in Mexicana, also that the anterior bor- 

 der of secondaries is largely of a fine citron-yellow. Now, the 

 whole of both wings of ^ Damaris is citron-yellow, and the mar- 

 ginal border is not deeper than in Damaris. Mexicana differs 

 much in its markings, shape of sinus, etc., and no doubt, Datnaris 

 varies considerably also. 



Phyciodes Picta. 



Melitcea Picta, $ Edw., Pr. Ent. Soc. Phila,, 3, 201. 



Canace $ Edw., Tr. A. E. Soc, 3, 206. 



Male. — Expands i.i inch. 



Upper side black with fulvous and whitish or buff spots or 

 bands, very much as in Pratensis, Behr ; or fulvous and buff with 

 very little black, there being much variation. In the lighter ex- 

 amples, the angular discal band on primaries is yellow-buff, and 

 the fulvous spots of the next outer band are partly replaced by 

 buff; the submarginal lunules are of same color, and there is a 

 buff band across cell; on secondaries the mesial band is partly 

 buff. So much buff with the fulvous gives these examples quite 

 a gay appearance. 



Under side of primaries mottled with pale yellow, or yellow- 

 buff, fulvous and black, the apical third being yellow or buff; with 

 same color the costal margin is broadly edged ; there are patches 

 of fulvous in and below cell, and in the median interspaces, the 

 intervening ground being yellow or buff; at inner angle is a black 

 patch, another at origin of lower median nervule, and below same; 

 a curved band beyond cell and a wedge-shaped patch between 

 this and apex. Secondaries yellow or yellow-buff, nearly immac- 

 ulate. Some examples have two small patches of brown on hind 

 margin, a cluster of brown scales at outer angle, and one or two 

 dots near the arc ; also two or three dots corresponding with the 

 pupils of the extra-discal row of fulvous spots of upper side. 

 •Other examples have these last dots, one or two streaks between 

 them and hind margin, and a few dots on costal margin. 



Female. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side as in male, except that on secondaries the ful- 

 vous bands are diffused, and the black areas between them re- 

 duced to little more than lines; the fulvous is of uniform shade 

 also, and in the discal band it is not replaced by yellow as in the 

 male. Under side of primaries as in the male ; secondaries yellow, 

 with faint reticulated brown lines on basal area, extending a little 

 beyond the middle of the wing; along hind margin a series of 

 narrow brown crenations, and above these a series of small brown 

 spots or points. By the uniform clear yellow, or buff, of hind 

 wings and of much of primaries, Picta'xs easily distinguished from 

 other western species. 



Since seeing the many examples of Picta in Mr. Neumoegen's 



