HESPERIDAE 
CoPAEODES RAYATA sp. nov. (PI. III, Figs. 1, 2). 
@ Antennae orange, paler beneath, shaded with black above; palpi, head 
and abdomen above orange, beneath whitish; primaries bright yellow-orange, 
costa slightly black apically; sex-mark a long fine black streak just below and 
parallel to median vein; a faint terminal dark line; secondaries orange with 
black scaling along costa and at base of wing; fringes of both wings concolorous, 
paler outwardly, smoky at apex of primaries. Beneath slightly paler orange 
than above, primaries shaded at base with black which juts out as a streak on 
median vein; at apex with slight whitish shading; secondaries with a prominent 
pale whitish ray extending from base of wing through cell to outer margin, 
interspaces of other veins slightly rayed with white. 
Q Primaries with median vein broadly black to end of cell, the color 
extending finely along veins 2, 3, and 4; anal vein outlined in black; other veins 
at times also black; secondaries black at costa and base, this color tending to 
extend along the veins, especially along anal vein; a black terminal line to both 
wings; fringes more or less suffused with smoky, especially apical half of 
primaries. Expanse 18-20 mm. 
Hasitat. San Benito, Texas (July 16-23) (Dorner) 74,392. Types, Coll. 
Barnes. 
In the W. H. Edwards Coll. 3 @’s from Texas of this species are 
labelled “arene Edw.” in Edwards own hand. These cannot however 
be .considered types as arene was described originally (Tr. Am. Ent. 
Soc. III, 214) from a specimen from Ariz. which is not in the Edwards 
Coll. It is probably due to this error of identification that Edwards 
later redescribed the true arene under the name of myrtis, as pointed 
out by Dyar (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XIII, 126). The white dash on 
under side of secondaries renders our new species very easily recog- 
nizable. 
