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Fore wings pale stone color, dusted with red .... COStata. 



Fore wings brownish tawny, unspotted, sometimes suffused with black. 



Hind wings red ......... opella. 



Hind wings black 7uir nigricans. 



Fore wings varying from deep chocolate brown to dull ocher yellow, 

 often with a darker submarginal band. 

 Inroad winged, fragile ; expanse, 25 — 30 mm. ; marks slight. 



Secondaries immaculate ...... immaculata. 



Secondaries with two or three dusky spots . . Tar. trimaculosa. 



Narrower winged ; expanse, 16 — 25 mm. ; often heavily 

 marked. 

 Wings unspotted. 



Fore wings brownish .... 



Fore wings ochraceous. 



Of normal size ..... 



Size very small (16 mm.) 

 Hind wings spotted with blackish. 

 I'ore wings without white spots. 



A few marginal black spots on hind wings 

 A continuous black band 

 Fore wings with white spots 



aurantiaca. 



'(?;-. rubicundaria. 

 zuir. diminutiva. 



rar. ferruginosa. 



var. brevicornis» 



v,ir. quinaria. 



E. laeta Gi/cn'/i. 



1839 — 44 — GiEKlN, Icon. R. Anim. Ins., p. 519. 



treat a Grote. 



1865— Grote, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., Vol. IV., p. 322. 



rnbropicta Packard. 



1887 — P.\CK.\RD, Ent. Amer., Vol. Ill, p. 52. 



Brownish black, collar, abdomen and basal two-thirds of 

 secondaries brick red. Expanse, t8 — 25 mm. 

 Habitat, Atlantic States to Texas. 



E. intermedia Gracf. 



1887 — Graef, Ent. Amer., Vol. Ill, p. 42. 



7'</;-. parvula Xcii)Jioci:;cn d"-" Dyar. 



1893 — Xeimoecen & DvAR, Ent. News., Vol. IV, p. 140. 



Thorax and fore wings slate gray, collar and basal part of rt 

 secontlaries bright red ; abdomen and outer margin of secondaries 

 black. This border varies in width from two thirds the width of 

 wing (typical) to one thirtl or less (var. parvula'). Expanse 

 22 mm. 



Habitat, Colorado to Texas. 



E. ostenta //)•. F.d-ivards. 



i&Si — Hv. Edwards, Papilio, Vol. I, p. 12. 



