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Hiibn. The three forms chiefly differ in the Avidth of the 

 slaty black border of the secondaries, Avhicli attains its 

 extreme width of half the wing in H. vittata, is naiTower 

 in H. fucosa, and in H. miniata is reduced to a slender 

 and even interrupted marginal band, not encroaching 

 upon the fi-inge. I cannot regard //. fucosa as con- 

 generic with the smaller species subsequently associated 

 with it, since the subcostal and median branches of the 

 secondaries are emitted fl'om footstalks beyond the end of 

 the discoidal cell. 



CiSTHENE, Walker, 



11. Cisthene unifascia, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ii. 



p. 187, pi. ii. fig. 63 t. Hab.— Texas {Bel- 

 fray e). 

 We have two examples, both having the apex of 

 secondaries dark as in C. suhjecta ; they differ much in 

 size and in the width of the transverse yellow band of 

 primaries ; still both differ from C. suhjecta in haAang this 

 band and the internal border uninterrupted, whereas in 

 C. suhjecta the band is always broken through and the 

 inner border incloses a more or less pronounced internal 

 blackish streak. Our smaller Texan form may be C. tenui- 

 fascia. 



12. Cisthene suhjecta, Wlk. Lep. Het. 2, p. 534. 



Hob. — United States. 

 We have two examples of what may be a variety of 

 this species ; they are rather longer in the primaries and 

 have no transverse yellow band. 



13. Cisthene minixta, n. sp. Hah. — Sta. Martha 



{Bouchard). 

 Allied to C. suhjecta ; primaries silver-grey, with a 

 white interno-median streak from base to external angle ; 

 secondaries rose-red, the apex broadly and the outer 

 margin narrowly brown ; fringe grey ; head and thorax 

 whitish, abdomen rose-red ; primaries below brown, Avitli 

 white interno-median streak ; otherwise as above : expanse 

 of wings 6 lines. 



14. Cisthene hilaris, Feldcr, Reisc dcr Nov. Lep. 



pi. cxxxix. fig. 3. Hah. — Venezuela {Hyson). 

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