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dark iiToration, the terminal area striated with blackish ; three 

 indistinct double sinuous lines beyond the cell ; postmedial line 

 double, black, the inner line sinuous, the outer arising at vein 6, 

 minutely waved and slightly bent inwards at vein 5, an oblique dark 

 shade beyond it from apex followed by a slight sinuous greenish 



Fig. 5^.- — Zale lunata, cJ. 



grey line. Underside grey tinged and striated with brown ; fore 

 wing with minute blackish spots in middle of cell and on dis- 

 cocellulars and faint postmedial and subterminal lines ; hind wing 

 with minute black discoidal spot and faint medial, postmedial, 

 and subterminal lines. 



Ab. 1. smindersi. Wings variegated with reddish ochreous. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with diffused ochreous white band beyond the 

 postmedial line except on costal area. 



Ab. 3. eclusa. Fore wing with the terminal area suffused with 

 violaceous w^hite except at apex and middle ; hind wing with the 

 terminal area suffused with violaceovis white except towards apex. 



Hah. Canada, Ontario, Kingsville (Hills), 1 c5' , 4 5 ; U.S.A., 

 East of Eocky Mts., 7 c? , 9 ? , New York (Fuchs), 1 S , Evans 

 Center {Grote), 1 c5" , Pennsjdvania, New Brighton (Merrick), 

 1 $ , Texas ; Mexico, Oaxaca (Salle), 1 S type marginalis, 

 Jalapa (Trujillo), 1 6,2 $, Mexico City (Hoege), 1 $, Vera 

 Cruz, Cordova (JRilmeli), 1 c? , 1 $ , Atoyac (Schumann), 1 $ ; 

 Guatemala, Zapote (Champion^, 1 5 ; Pais^ama, Chiriqui 

 (Champion), 2 §, Godman-Salvin Coll.; Bahamas, Abaco 

 (Bonhote), 1 $ ; Grenaba (H. H. Smith), 2 § ; Argentina 

 (0. Thomas), 3 ?, Rioja (Giacomelli), 1 ?. Exp. 48-60 

 millim. 



