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2. Upper surface of secondaries immaculate or with a few very vague 



spots 3 



Upper surface always with the transverse row of spots, more or less 

 suffused ; usually with a spot in cell 5 



3. Small Florida species. Stigma of male very small, female usually 

 with a few powdery whitish spots on the under surface of the sec- 

 ondaries iaracoa 



Usually moderate to large. Stigma large. Spots, when present, not 

 superficial and powdery, and usually showing slightly on upper sur- 

 face 4 



4. Smaller; male stigma with several velvety black areas; female with 

 maculation of primaries tinged with fulvous, costa and cell often part- 

 ly fulvous cernes 



Larger ; stigma of male continuous or broken only on vein 2 ; macula- 

 tion of female pale, whitish, rarely with a little pale fulvous in cell 

 man-ataaqua 



5. Under surface of secondaries powdered with yellowish to green scales; 



macular band slender sonora 



Color straw yellow to brown ; band broader 6 



6. Male stigma slender, broken on vein 2 ; female usually with much yel- 

 low-fulvous above; in western specimens pale below and well marked 



above mystic 



Male stigma with three black areas; female with hazy transverse rows 

 of spots on all wings and some fulvous in cell, not extensively marked; 

 dark below, powdered with yellow. Western species mardon 



7. Pale areas on under surface extending in pale lines along the veins 



sdbuleti 



Pale areas at most angulate on veins 8 



8. All spots of macular band large, but not equal, that between 4 and 6 



largest; color yellow peclius 



Spots small except the one between 4 and 6; color white or whitish 



draco 



Pale area covering entire wing except a few dark patches, not divided 

 into separate spots and rarely defined as a band; secondaries sometimes 

 entirely yellow below. Female with yellow areas heavily powdered with 

 dark scales ; secondaries immaculate above 9 



9. Male stigma very broad stigma 



Male stigma moderate irettus, chmla ( ?) 



1. POLITES VERNA 



Pamphila verna Edw., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1862, 57. 

 Pamphila pottaivattomie Worth., Can. Ent. xii, 50, 1880. 

 Scudder, Butt. New Eng. ii, 1742, 1889. 

 Holland, Butterfly Book 360, pi. XLVi, f. 32, 1898. 

 Eastern United States, west to Colorado, July. 



