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ERYNNIS. By Dr. M. Dratdt. 



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liirht apex of the forewing and black basal markings. — f. assiniboia Lyman, are the eastern specimens from 

 Regina with a very light yellowish-green under surface. — f. laurentina Lyman, the dark brown form is called, 

 in case the above mentioned name of f . manitoha is to refer to the yellowish-green assiniboia. — f . manitoboides 

 Fletck. is smaller than manitoba, of a bright tan-colour, with a very broad dark brown margin. Ontario. 



E. sassacus Harr. (I80h) is hardly discernible above from the forms of manitoba; the $ is larger, the 

 marginal shading darker and more extensive. Beneath the wings are light yellowish-red. the spots above scarcely 

 lighter, the basal area of the forewing spotted black. From New England to Georgia, to the west as far as 

 Colorado. — The remarkably stout, green larva lives on herbs. — f. dacotae Skiiin. has the dark markings almost 

 extinct, the ground-colour is paler. The J on the contrary is cpiite dark with small light spots. South Dakota. 

 Iowa. 



E. harpalus Edic. is very closely allied to sussacus. Forewing in the disc and at the costal margin 

 reddish-yellow, light brow^n at the base and distal margin, hindwing the same. Beneath pale reddish-yellow . 

 forewing at the proximal margin yellowish, at the apex ochreo\is, at the base black, Hindwing ochreous-yellow 

 in the disc an indistinct, lighter, narrow, bent band and a cellular spot. The $ is lighter, the brown colour con- 

 fined, with a light submarginal band. Beneath the light band of the hindwing is more distinct. From Nevada. 



E. pawnee Dodge (180 h, i). Large, yellowish-red with a moderately broad smoky margin and white 

 fringes. The ':^ is darker, only basally and at the costal margin ferruginous-yellow with whitish spots. Beneath 

 very dull reddish-yellow, in the 2 more olive on the hindwings with a little lighter spots. Montana. — f. motl- 

 tana Skinner is above and beneath darker, l)roadly bordered with blackish brown, hindwing beneath with a 

 po.stdiscal row of yellow spots. Colorado. 



E. Ottoe Edic. (180 i) is a very large, very light reddish-yellow species with very narrowly smoked 

 margins and also in the female scarcely darkened «ings. The under surface is quite monotonously light reddish- 

 yellow or Isabel-coloured without any marking, only with a black-marked basal area of the forewing. From 

 Kansas and Nebraska. — f. amanda Plotz (180 i) is a form with a broad black distal margin from an unknown 

 habitat, 



E. lasus Edw. above entirely resembles ottoe. Beneath the apex and costal margin of the forewing 

 and the hindwings are light yellow with a green tint, the base of the cell and the proximal margin are black, 

 the cell otherwise reddish-yellow, an oblique discal row and 3 subapical spots are white. Costal margin of 

 hindwing speckled with brown, subcostal and median veins of a clear white; a postdiscal, rectangularly flawed 

 band of white spots is distally partly bordered with black. From South Arizona. 



E. cabelus Edw. is likewise very similar; the forewings are somewhat more broadly bordered with 

 brown, with 2 or 3 very small subapical dots. The hindwing is beneath reddish golden yellow with some minute 

 lighter spots, one in the lower cell-end. 2 or 3 postdiscally ; a small one may also be yet near the distal margin. 

 Nevada. 



E. napa Edw. (^ dacotah Edv\). We unfortunate!}' had no access to the description of this species. 



E, nietea Scddr. (= riddingsii Beak.) (180 i). Here also the (J is similarly marked as the J-forms, 

 of a dull greyish-brown with a reddish-yellow postdiscal band, subapical dots on the forewing and small diffuse 

 spots on the hindwings. The under surface is darker brown than above, the light macular markings ivory- 

 coloured; the hindwing exhibits near the base another bent band of white spots. From the Atlantic States. 



E. tineas Edw. (180 k) is a larger species with long wings, the (^ reddish-yellow with a long black 

 stigma, smoky margins and an especially broad dark apex of the forewing with 4. whitish spots therein. The 

 $ is particularly large, dark brown with whitish spots being more reddish-yellow towards the proximal margin 

 and on the hindwing. Beneath the hindwing is greenish-grey with bright pearl-coloured spots which are jjroxi- 

 mally and distally bordered by a darker olive and spotted so. Pennsylvania to Montana and Colorado. 



E. attains Edio. (= seminole Scddr., slossonae Skinner) (180 k). Similar as metea, but larger, darker, 

 the macular markings more distinct with a long, wedge-shaped, reddish-yellow cellular spot ; the 5 is larger 

 and darker. Beneath the hindwing is dull brownish-grey, the light spots are lighter grey. From the southern 

 Atlantic States to Florida and Texas. 



E. yuma Edn\ Above uni-coloured ochreous-yellow. without spots, with a lung, narrow, almost 

 straight stigma; only the costal margin of the hindwing is darkened. Beneath still lighter yellow, bai^e of fore- 

 wing blackisli. Described according to 1 ^ from Arizona. Expanse of wings: 1,3 inch. 



E. earns Edw. very much resembles Chaereph. rhesus (180 e) above, but it is easily discernible by the 

 (J stigma, less purely white fringes and a different under surface which is brown with the costal margin of the 

 forewing and the proximal margin of both wings being dusted yellowish-white, as well as a narrow, similar 

 distal margin; of the same colour are the veins; all the spots above are more distinct and larger. From West 

 Texas. 



E. licinns Edu\ Above blackish-brown with a large, reddish-yellow discal spot, some postdiscal and 

 3 subapical small spots, hindwing with a large, reddish-yellow, triangular discal spot. Beneath brown, at the 

 costal margin of the forewing and disc of hindwing tinted reddish-yellow, the spots of above being whitish 

 here. Hindwing with a rectangularly bent line of white spots behind the cell, and 2 cellular dots. From Texas. 



