Cuba, New Grenada, or our Southern States. It is as vain to hope for 
constancy in this particular as it is in tHe suffusion of the already closely 
placed spots. Every possible form from one very faint white ocellus to 
four distinctly marked ocelli may be found. In some of the black 
spots, which to the naked eye seem devoid of any trace of ocelli, the 
pocket lens will show an occasional white scale ; present as a veritable 
mocker at the stability of ‘‘“sudaris, n sp.” 
The sixth characteristic, if such it mav be termed, viz: habitat, 
has already been exploded by what we have said of the authorities who 
have given van7//e a home in the Antilles. To that list might be added 
such well known catalogues as Dr. Strecker’s ‘‘Butterflies and Moths of 
North America,” and Mr. Scudder’s ‘‘Synonymic List of American 
Nymphales.” Both of these authors give the Antilles as a habitat for 
vanille, as does also Snellen in his report on the Diurnals found on the 
Island of Curacao, in the Tidschrift voor Entomologie, Vol. 30, p. 20. 
One naturally wonders who the authors were that Mr. Maynard con- 
sulted on this subject, when such well known and constantly used works 
of reference were overlooked. There are four species of the Agraulis 
group that are known to have been found in the West Indies. 
Before closing this paper it will be of interest and will still further 
show the uncertain condition of this ‘‘new species” to offer a few notes 
on some of the more remarkable specimens over which I have looked in 
preparing this paper. Two specimens from “ Hacilada de Bledos”, 
Mexico, (Dr. Palmer) have unusually bright red coloring and deep 
markings, but they also have the wsudar’s measurements’ In one of 
these there is a pupil in both of the inner cell-spots, and none whatever 
in either of the outer. Two specimens from New Grenada, in the Titian 
R. Peale collection, have but one white spot ; in general color they are 
imsudaris, but in measurements and proportions they are vanille. Two 
from the Island of St. Thomas and three from Cuba (all in the Peale 
collection) are all of the vam/e form. Inthe St. Thomas specimens 
there is a tendency to entire obliteration of the ocelli. One of the speci- 
mens from Cuba (‘‘from Ramon de la Sagra, 1833”) has 3 ocelli, and 
another from the same island is a typical vamz/e@ in every particular. 
A specimen from Guanoxuato, Mexico (‘‘ Prof. Millington, 1835”) has 
the inner spots apart more than their own width. Beneath it is peculiar 
in that it has the outer spots in cell fused into a large tripartate nacre 
spot with a black inter-bordering. A specimen from San Domingo 
(Frazar) though of the zzsu/aris form has the inner two spots not only 
widely separated, but has the lower one nearly wanting, thus presenting 
the very opposite of fusion. 
ENTOMOLOGICA AMERICANA, VOL, V. 2 DECEMBER, 1889. 
