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below the outer of the three, and a much larger quadrate spot centrally 

 below the fourth. Two translucent bands follow these spots internally, 

 the first bifid, short, hardly more than an elongated spot, the inner 

 one crossing the median area much longer and made trifid by two 

 nervures. The color of the markings on the secondaries is much 

 brighter; and towards the anal angle of a deep azure-blue tint in some 

 examples. From the base three streaks diverge towards and stop 

 abruptly on the median area, the upper of these is shorter than the 

 others to make room for the bifurcate series of spots on the outer area 

 of the wing. These spots, four in the inner line and seven in the outer, 

 are placed in the form of a written letter Y. On some examples there 

 is a faint indication of another streak, longer than the three others 

 running parallel to the abdominal margin. Beneath, color and mark- 

 ings a reproduction of the upper surface, save that while the black is 

 not so dense on the primaries, it is deeper and more velvety on the 

 secondaries. The green atoms on the primaries are fewer ; on the sec- 

 ondaries they are brighter, and the bands run all the way to the costal 

 edge. Thorax above black, with tufts of green hairs and annulations 

 of the same color. Head and palpi above green spotted, with white. 

 Antennae black, dark cinereous at tip. Emarginations, above and 

 below, notched, white." 



Habitat. — Texas ; Mexico ; Central America. 



Erycitles (Pliocides) lilea Reak. 



Erycides lilea Reakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 18, 339, 1866; 



Biol. Cent. -Am., 2, 296, t. 76, f. 23, 24, 1893. 

 Erycides sanguinea Scudder, Syst. Rev. Am. But., 47, 1872. 



"Upper surface shining blue-black, irrorated with lustrous green 

 particles over the basal area and the body ; a large fulvous red costal 

 spot on the primaries cut by the subcostal vein ; outer margin of both 

 wings, including the anal angle of secondaries, fringed with white 

 hairs, especially long upon the latter. Underneath as above, but desti- 

 tute of the green irrorations. Expanse 2.25 inches. Body blue-black, 

 the palpi, excepting the terminal joint and a collar, fulvous-red; an- 

 tennae black. Var a. ; the abdominal margin is fringed with dark 

 brown hairs, encroaching slightly upon the white anal ailiEe." 



Habitat. — Mexico, near Vera Cruz, W. H. Edwards. A 

 local race of the well-known Erycides palcemon. Texas 

 (Captain Pope, Mexican Boundary Survey); Mexico; Guate- 

 mala ; Costa Rica. 



Eudainus (Pliocides) (Erycides) batabano Lucas ; Sagra, 

 Hist. Cuba, 7, 624, 1856. 

 " E. alls laeviter subprolongatis utrinque fuscis, anticis ad basin 

 nitido-caeruleis, posticis duabus lineis transversalibus versus basin 



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