68 BULLETIN BROOKLYN ENTOM. SOC. VOL. Iv. October 1883.) 
Satyrus, W. H.E. Tr. A. E. Soc. 2. 374. Edw. Butt. N. A. 1, 110, 
pl. 40. H, Edw. Pr. Cal. Ac. N.S., 5, 168. Pearson, Can. Ent. 7, 216, Mead, R. 
Wh. Exp. 5, 767. 
Pale fulvous with slight black markings; margins of secondaries 
usually pale, often inclining to yellow, with a disconnected submarginal 
band of deep fulvous ; the wings are only moderately incised, and this 
with the rather long tail and produced anal angle will serve to easily dis- 
tinguish the species. i 
Hab.—Colorado to California; New Mexico, Oregon, British Ame- 
rica, Ontario. Expanse about 2 inches. 
Mr. W. H, Edwards figures the larva in his Butt. N. A. I, 119, p 
40, and adds that it feeds on nettles. 
Var. Miarsyas, W. H. Edw. Tr. A. E. Soc. 3. 16. Ed. Butt. N. A. 
pl. 2, Grapta, id. 1879, 2, part 8, plate 3. 
Fulvous with slight black markings; the marginal borders of secon- 
daries ferruginous, much sprinkled with yellow scales; the comma on 
underside of secondaries is silvered, thickened at upper end, barbed at 
lower end ; underside shaded brown and olivacious. The produced 
anal angle, so noticeable in Sa/yrus seems to be lost in this form. 
Hab.—California. Expanse 1.6 inches. 
In the last mentioned reference above, Mr. W. H. Edwards records 
that Mr. O. T. Baron of Navarro, Cal., had by breeding established the 
fact that AZarsyas is seasonally dimorphic with Satyrus and adds the 
figure of an interesting suffused specimen obtained from the brood, tke 
out however giving any information about the larva. 
Commi, Harr. Harris Ins. inj. Veg. 300, pl. 4, fig. 1, Lint. Pr. E. S. 
Phil. 3,55. Ed. Butt. N. A., 1.99, pl. 36. 
Bright fulvous, with rather slight black markings; borders of prima- 
ties narrow and black, of secondaries deep ferruginous, fringed with 
bluish-gray ; underside generally brown, mottled with lighter and darker 
shadings, but one form has the underside dark slate color, irrigated with 
brown markings. Haé.—Eastern, Middle, and North Western States, 
Kansas, Texas, Canada, Nova, Scotia. Expanse ri to 2 inches. 
In Harris the larva is described as being very like Jnferrogatonis; 
~ one form corresponds to this, but another ranges from pale green to snow 
white with various red markings, and having the spines tipped with 
black ; on several occassions we have seen both Comma and Dryas emerge .- 
from chrysalids obtained from almost snow-white caterpillars. Food plants 
hops, elm, and nettle. 
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