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POLITES. By Dr. M. Draidt. 



waqdaiia. Th. iTiagdalia i/.-.SVA«//. ( 181 b) is a Smaller species, above bright reddish-yellow, in the inner- 



marginal area somewhat darkened, with narrow black borders and costal margin. The $ is darkened at the 

 cell-end. Beneath reddish-yellow, forewing in the submedian space close to the anal angle black; the £ is more 

 intensely strewn with a yellowish-green. From Cuba. 

 ,.li,iy,.a. Th. chusca Edw. Above reddish-yellow, with narrow l)lackish-bro\\n. proximally dentate distal 



maro-ins, the teeth on the forewing opposite the transverse vein absent. Scent-stripe velvety black, thick, 

 towards the base convex, here at the lower end with a black spot, distally a small dark spot. Beneath light 

 yellow, unmarked, hindwing more ochreous. From Arizona. 

 ,j„,^.„^ ' Th. draco Edw. (181c). Blackish-brown, at the proximal margin iMoadly haired olive, only in the 



costal-maro-inal part and in some postdiseal and subapical small spots reddish-yellow: disc of hindwing irre- 

 gularly spotted reddish-yellow. Fringes of hindwings yellowish-white. Beneath the hindwings are greyish- 

 brown, the spots light sulphureous. Colorado. 

 ,;,.;, Th. siris Edw. is allied to mystic (181b). Forewing above reddish-yellow, apex and distal niarghi 



as far as the cell and the whole hindwings dark brown; small, reddish-yellow postdiseal and subapical spots 

 on the forewing ; behind the narrow, bent stigma a dark brown spot. The hindwing exhibits in the disc an indis- 

 tinct, reddish-j^ellow, narrow band. Beneath darker brown, the spots more distinctly yellow. The ? is larger, 

 without the reddish-yellow discal colour of the c^, the spots clearly reddish-yellow, especially on the hindwings. 

 Beneath almost cinnamon-coloured. Mount Hood. 

 )„iir(hii. Th. mardon Edir. (ISI b) is above light greyish-brown, scaled yellow whh a more distinctly reddish- 



yellow costal part of the forewing and traces of such subapical and postdiseal small spots. Beneath light grey, 

 more or less strewn with yellowish, the spots of above repeated whitish, besides a bent macular band in the 

 middle of the hindwing. Oregon, Washington. 



athcuUni. Th. athenion Hhn. (181 c) i-< in the (^ sex above uni-coloured blackish-brown with the broad stigma 



behind which there may appear very indistinct light spots which are very distinct in the $. Beneath duller 

 greyish-brown, spotted lighter on the forewing. Hindwing violettish-grey with a dark brown discal band, costal- 

 marginal and di-ital-marginal spots. Mexico to Brazil. 



bahlcn.'iis. TH. bahiensis Schs. is dull brown, cell of forewing ferruginous-brown, as well as a stripe at the base 



of the costa and small stripes above the cell-end, 3 small subapical spots and 2 small spots near the middle 

 of the distal margin, as well as lighter shades behind the stigma; the disc of the hindwing is also ferru- 

 ginous-brown, parted by the darker veins. Beneath the same, but of a duller colouring. Expan.se of wings: 

 23 mm. Bahia. 

 A/era. Th. dares Plotz (181c) seems to be very similar, so that both may in certain cases be comprised 



as dares. According to the figure, only the small spots at the middle of the distal margin are absent and the 

 under siurface is lighter, more yellowish-grey, strewn with ferruginous-brownish, with a blackish inner-marginal 

 ray being thickened towards the anal angle. From Brazil and Bolivia. 



81. Genus: Polites Scddr. 



Antennae and palpi as in Htjlephila. also the veins. The ,^ stigma consists of a somewhat bent stripe 

 of rev'erted black scent-scales, below and outside of it with a spot of similar, flatter scales. 

 corii.'<. P. COras Cr. (= peckins Ky., wamsutta Harr.) (181 c, d) is a smaller, squat species, blackish-brown, 



in the basal and larger costal- marginal half with small subapical and postdiseal spots; also on the hindwing 

 there is a broad postdiseal band of spots, the second from above being very long, proximally and distally projec- 

 ting from the row. The 5 is without the reddish-yellow basal half. Canada to N'irginia, Kansas and Iowa. 



i,((r(iri„i. P. baracoa Luc. {= amadis H.-ScJidff., myus French) (181 d) is above reddish-yellow, at the margin 



olive-brownish with a similar longitudinal spot behind the cell to the margin and from the proximal margin 

 on both sides of the stigma; hindwing unmarked, fringes ochreous-yellow. In the 2 only the costal margin 

 is broadly reddish-yellow and 2 small postdiseal spots. Beneath of a very dull colouring with a somewhat lighter 

 post median macular band. Florida and Culia. 



.•.■(ihnlHi. P- sabuleti Bsd. (= genoa Plotz) (181 d) looks above like a snuili. squat H. phyhieus with more 



darkened margins, especially the hindwings are bordered darker. Beneath lighter with still lighter spots being 

 proximally and distally bordered by oblong black spots. California. 

 cliispii. p. chispa Wright (181 d) is only half as large, above still more broadly bordered with dark, so that 



the wedge-shaped spots are less prominent. The under surface is purely olive-grey with a distinct, coherent, 

 whitish postdiseal band of the hindwing without the black spots of the preceding. California. 



'jijiK, rails. P. ignorans Plotz (181 e) is apparently allied to chispa. the colour is a purer golden yellow, the black 



margin of the hindwing very broad. Beneath the hindwing is darker, almost blackish-luown. the light postdiseal 

 band similarly shaped as in carets, with a fine light anteterminal line. Venezuela. 



Mv'd.s/o//-;. P. winslowi Weeks is doubtfully placed here. Above dari< brown, towards the base reddish ycllowish- 



lirown, in the disc golden brown, stigma black. Hindwing dark brow n, in the disc tan-coloured, at the proximal 



