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primaries. Figure and size of H. nemorum. Wings yellow, with 

 a rather wide brown border; fringe pale yellow. Primaries of the 

 male marked at the summit, with two or three points of the ground 

 color. Secondaries with the disk more or less marked with black 

 in the middle. 



Under side rather pale yellow, nearly uniform ; that of the pri- 

 maries marked at the summit with three small paler spots ; that of 

 the secondaries with a transverse line of similar small spots. 



• California. 



Boisd. 



12. H. sabuleti Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 31G. 



Wings of nearly the same yellow as in H. sylvanus, with a rather 



wide brown border, serrate on the primaries; the latter Laving the 



mark shorter and more truncate than in H. sylvanus, joined to a 



grayish spot ; under side paler yellow, with a row of brown streaks 



slightly sagittate ; that of the inferiors with a row of similar streaks 



towards the base. Female larger. Under side paler ; that of the 



primaries, between the border and the disk, with a row of spots 



paler than the ground color. 



California. 



Boisd. 



13. H. ? vestris Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 317. 



Upper side russety brown ; that of the primaries with four small 

 white spots somewhat transparent, of which two are punctiform, 

 near the upper edge ; the two others larger, in the ramifications of 

 the median nerve; that of the secondaries without spots. Under 

 side duller, a little more grayish, with the same spots as above. 



California. 



Boisd. 



14. H. comma Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Resembles H. sylvanus, but the under side is more greenish and 

 spotted with white. These spots are nine in number, three towards 

 the base, the six others forming a bent row behind the middle. 

 Fringe white, spotted with black below. Club of the antennae 

 terminated below by a large ferruginous point. 



California and Europe. 



Boisd. 



