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6. Nathalis lole Boisd. 



H;il). — Illinois (Worthington); Missouri to California, New Mexico, 



Arizona (W. H. Edwards); abundant in Kansas (Snow). 



The single example of this species, captured in very poor condition, 



shows such an unusual coloration in its bright red suffusion that it was 



at first thought to be a distinct species. It may have been changed by 



remaining long in the cyanide bottle in which it was taken. 



7. PhcEbis Agaiithe (Boisd.). vSp. Gen., I, 623. Phcvbis Agarithe, 

 Butler, Lep. Exot., p. 121, pi. 45. 



Hab. — Butler cites this species from Texas, Yucatan, Venezuela, 

 Nicaragua, Panama, Santa Martha, Caraccas, Brazil and Hayti. 

 Mr. Scudder records a pair brought from Key West by Dr. 

 Palmer. 



This beautiful species is represented by three male examples, in fair 

 condition, taken by Mr. Sennett. The peculiar borders of its wings, 

 consisting apparently of less closely appressed scales which are uni- 

 colorous with those of the rest of the wing, entirely disappear when 

 viewed at a certain angle. The border is well defined on the primaries, 

 of nearly uniform width across the outer margin (with the exception of 

 its inward curving at the nervules) until to cell 7, which it more than 

 half fills: cells 8, 9 and 10 are nearly filled by it. It is continued 

 around the inner margin to nearly its middle. On the secondaries it 

 is narrower, quite uniform in width (very slightly curving in at the 

 nervules), arrested at vein 3, and preceded in cell 3 by a round spot of 

 less diameter than the border lying above the fold. 



Two of the examples (the smaller) are marked by a linear spot on 

 the cross-vein of the primaries above and beneath ; an obscure band of 

 scattered brown scales crossing in a direct fine the nervules of the pri- 

 maries beneath, and continued irregularly over those of the seconda- 

 ries; on the discal cross-vein of the latter a small circle of reddish 

 scales resting on the fold of cell 5, and a similar one above it in cell 6. 

 The third example shows none of these discal marks on either surface, 

 but only the obscure band of the primaries beneath. 



Butler gives the following characters and comparisons of this species: 

 " .? . Above very similar to P. Argante, but paler; the front wings 

 more produced at apex ; below differs from P. Argante in the oblique 

 band of forewings, which is continuous and not angulated as in P. 

 Argante. 



"9. Above generally golden-orange, sometimes pinky-white; 

 forewings with diffused orange patch on end of cell; a brown spot at 

 end of cell." 



8. Kricogonia Lyside (Godt.). Encyc. Method., ix, p. 98 (as 

 Co lias L. ) 



