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what produced, the underside has the spots of the upper surface of 

 fore wings repeated. The surface along the costa, a broad apical por- 

 tion and external margin of fore wings, and all of the hind wings, 

 except two bands of spots and the anal angle, rich purple, not very 

 dark; all the rest of the surface dark brown. The dark brown por- 

 tion consists of two transverse bands, marking nearly the division of 

 the wings into thirds, and a basal portion of the anal angle. Body 

 black; palpi and underside of head gray." 



Habitat. — Florida ; Arizona ; Mexico ; Central America ; 

 Antilles. 



Records. — Key West, Fla., January ; Miami, Fla., January ; 

 Phoenix, Florence, Arizona, September 3rd (C. R. Bieder- 

 man); Dyar, Ent. News, 8, 182, 1897 (Life History). 



Eudaiuus (Erycides) (Pyrrhopyge) araxes Hew. 

 Erycides araxes Hewitson, Descrip. 100 New Species of Hesp., Part 1, 

 page 2, No. 3. 

 " Upperside dark brown, the fringe snow-white, intersected with 

 dark brown. Anterior wing with ten transparent white spots; three 

 forming a central transverse band, three outside of these forming a 

 short oblique band, three before the apex, and the tenth a minute spot 

 at the costal margin. Underside dark brown. Anterior wing as above, 

 except that it is rufous at the base. Posterior wing with the base and 

 inner margin and two transverse bands orange-yellow. The first band 

 before the middle, regular and trifid ; the outer band beyond the mid- 

 dle curved outwards, undulated and composed of several spots. Ex- 

 panse 2 inches. Habitat Mexico. In the collection of W. C. Hewit- 

 son. Like species of Endamus in general appearance, but with the 

 antennae of this genus." 



The Biologia says: '"Hewitson's description of the spe- 

 cies was based on a Mexican specimen now in the collection 

 of the British Museum. Our Mexican series of examples 

 agrees generally with the type, though there is a consider- 

 able amount of variation as regards the definition of the 

 markings of the secondaries. In Arizona specimens these 

 marks are evanescent, and the dark outer border is not 

 clearly defined on its inner edge. The difference is suffi- 

 cient to constitute a distinct race. Plotz also recognized 

 two forms, but unfortunately gave a new name cyrillus to 

 the true araxes, the Arizona form being his araxes. To rec- 

 tify this we propose to call the northern insect Pyrrhopyge 



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