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Hegon is more commonly known as samoset. It is similar to neretis but 

 the transverse row of spots on the primaries is usually less complete and 

 fresh specimens are much more greenish below. The distribution is suflS.- 

 cient to separate specimens which bear locality labels. 



8. AMBLYSCIRTES NEREUS 

 Sesperia nereus Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v, 207, 1876. 

 Biol. Cent.-Am., Rhop. Ii, 502, pi. 95, ff. 27-30, 1900. 

 Arizona, June to August. 



9. AMBLYSCIRTES ALTERNATA 



Eesperia dlternata G. & R., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. i, 3, 1867. 

 Hesperia eos Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii, 276, 1871. 

 Amblyscirtes meridionalis Dyar, Jn. N. Y. Ent. Soc. xiil, 135, 1905. 



Georgia; Skinner lists eos from Texas, Georgia and Florida. 



A specimen which Dr. McDunnough placed as alternata in the Barnes 

 collection proved to be the same as Dyar's types of meridionnlis in the 

 Strecker collection, and the descriptions of all of the species lead me to 

 believe that they are synonyms. The primaries are apieally produced, so 

 that the outer margin is longer than in vialis, and the fringes are an un- 

 usually pure white, as in nysa. The under surface has a transverse row of 

 faint, powdery spots on the secondaries and is otherwise similar to vialis. 



10. AMBLYSCIRTES NYSA 

 Amblyscirtes 7iysa Edw., Can. Ent. ix, 191, 1877, 

 Pamphila similis Strecker, Lep. Rhop. & Het. 131, 1878. 



Texas and Arizona, March to June. 



The under surface of the secondaries is distinctive and the fringes are a 

 clearer white than in any other species than alternata. The upper surface 

 of nysa is very similar to that of alternata in all particulars. 



11. AMBLYSCIRTES COMUS 



Hesperia comus Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. v, 206, 1876. 

 Amilyscirtes nilus Edw., Field and Forest iii, 118, 1878. 

 Pamphila quinqwemacula Skinner, Ent. News xxii, 413, 1911. 

 Biol. Cent. -Am., Rhop. ll, 502, pi. 95, ff. 25, 26, 1900. 



Texas and Arizona, August. 



From a specimen in the Barnes collection compared vrith Edward's mate- 

 rial I have noted that the under surface is finely and smoothly grayish 

 irrorate and the spots small, white, sharply defined and not crowded to- 

 gether. 



12. AMBLYSCIRTES TEXTOR 



Pyrgus textor, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett. pi. 89, ff. 515, 516, 1825. 

 Hesperia onel'o Scud., Proc. Ess. Inst, iii, 176, 1863. 

 Hesperia wakulla Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii, 311, 1869. 

 Holland, Butterfly Book 341, pi. XLVii, f. 16, 1898. 



