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the life histories will enable the butterflies to be placed more 

 accurately as to their relative standing, but at present I 

 would consider that we have but two species and arrange the 

 other names as varieties or topomorphs as follows : 



CELTIS GROUP. CLYTON GROUP. 



Celtis Bd. Clyton Bd.-Lec. 



var. antonia Edw. ocellata Edw. 



codes hint. var. proserpina 6"c7/fl^. 



montis Edw. var. nig Strecker. 



var. leilia Edw. var. flora Edw. 



var. alicia Edw. var. texana Skinner. 



With one or more ocelli on primaries above and an ocellus or spot on 



inner margin of secondaries below 1. 



Lacking the above characters 4. 



1. With a single ocellus on primaries above 2. 



With two ocelli on primaries above 3. 



2. Small species (male expands 43 mm., female expands 53 mm. ; 



ground color light or yellowish-brown celtis. 



Larger; ground color orange-ferruginous, or dull fulvous... alicia. 



3. Color yellowish-brown ; three spots in discoidal cell in primaries 



above antonia. 



Color bright castaneous ; two spots in discoidal cell of primaries 

 above leilia. 



4. Both wings of same general color (female); spots of primaries 



whitish (male); spots in primaries small, outer row 1 mm. 



in diam. ; secondrries 1.5 mm texana. 



Color of secondaries darker than primaries (female); spots on pri- 

 maries yellow, not distinctly lighter (male) 5. 



5. Primaries rusty fulvous at base, remainder blackish brown. 



clyton. 

 Primaries fulvous at base and remainder of wing orange-ferrugin- 

 ous (tawny) flora. 



TRANS. AM. ENT. SOC. , XXXVII. 



