198 LEPIDOPTERA. 



j'g inch in length. Primaries are marked with nine translucent spots ; 

 three subapical ; one at end of cell and a minute one above it on costa ; 

 four in the disc divided as follows: one minute point, and below it 

 and toward base a larger hour-glass shaped spot ; next below and still 

 nearer base a rectangular spot ; below this and toward exterior margin 

 a small nearly quadrate spot. Inferiors immaculate but edges crenate, 

 with dark extending into the lighter fringes. Underside. — On prima- 

 ries the spots are all repeated. Secondaries have two parallel more or 

 less broken bands extending from costa to near inner margin. 



Var. rauterberg-i Skinner, Ent. News, 6, 113, 1895. 



d^. Expands one and three-fourths inch. Uppperside. — Dark smoky- 

 brown in color ; superiors have the nine hyaline spots, a faint one on 

 middle of costa, and three extending in a line between this and the 

 inner angle ; one in middle of disc and a faint one in the interspace 

 above ; these are close together below the costa on the outer third of 

 wing. Inferiors immaculate, with tails a half inch in length. Fringes 

 alternating black and cinereous. Underside. — Superiors as above. 

 Inferiors grayish with black longitudinal bands. This form is smaller 

 and very much darker than protilhis ; the fringes are far less marked, 

 and the tails lack the admixture of light hairs ; the maculation is about 

 the same as in the species. 



Habitat. — Texas and Arizona ; Mexico ; Central America ; 

 South America. 



One specimen from Mr. F. Rauterberg, who received it 

 from Comal County, Texas. I have also seen a specimen 

 belonging to Dr. Wm. Barnes taken in Arizona. 



Records. — Carr Canyon, Huachuca Mts., Arizona, October 

 19th (C. R, Biederman). 



Erycides (Pliocides) iirania West. -Hew., Gen. Diur. Lep., 510, 



pi. 79, fig. 1, 1852. 

 Erycides texana Scudder, Rep. Peab. Ac. Sc, 4, 67, 1872. 

 Phocides urania Godmn.-Salvin, Biol. Cent.-Amer., Tab. 76, f. 22 c? 



gent. Aaron, Ent. News, 1, 23, 1890; Skinner, Ent. News, 



2, 101, 1891, pi. 

 " Expanse 2 to 2f inches. Ground color above black on both wings; 

 banded and spotted with bright green on blue. On the primaries this 

 banding in most examples is caused by the fact that nearly the whole 

 surface is covered with a dense coat of scales of bright green, which 

 being separated by the black bordered nervures, take on the form of 

 longitudinal bands : in a few specimens, however, the apical area is 

 but slightly sprinkled with green, and the whole outer half of the wing 

 appears black or nearly so. A group of translucent subapical spots 

 consists of three constricted points along the costal margin, one larger 



