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POLITES. By Dr. M. Deacdt. 



magdalia. Th. iTiagdalia H.-ScMff. (181 b) is a smaller species, above bright reddish-yellow, in the inner- 



marginal area somewhat darkened, with narrow black borders and costal margin. The $ is darkened at the 

 cell-end. Beneath reddish-yellow, forewing in the submedian space close to the anal angle black; the 5 is more 

 intensely strewn with a yellowish-green. From Cuba. 

 chusca. Th. chusca Edw. Above reddish-yellow, with narrow blackish-brown, proximally dentate distal 



margms, the teeth on the forewing opposite the transverse vein absent. Scent-stripe velvetj' black, thick, 

 towards the base convex, here at the lower end with a black spot, distally a small dark spot. Beneath light 

 yellow, unmarked, hindwing more ochreous. From Arizona. 

 draco. Th. draco Edw. (181c). Blackish-brown, at the proximal margin broadly haired olive, only in the 



costal-marginal part and in some postdiseal and subapical small spots reddish-yellow; disc of hindwing irre- 

 gularly spotted reddish-yellow. Fringes of hindwings yellowish-white. Beneath the hindwings are grejash- 

 brown, the spots light sulphureous. Colorado. 

 sirifi. Th. siris Ed-w. is allied to mystic (181b). Forewing above reddish-yellow, apex and distal margin 



as far as the cell and the whole hindwings dark brown; small, reddish-yellow postdiseal and subapical spots 

 on the forewing; behind the narrow, bent stigma a dark brown spot. Tlie hindwing exhibits in the disc an indis- 

 tinct, reddish-yellow, narrow band. Beneath darker brown, the spots more distinctly yellow. The $ is larger, 

 without the reddish-yellow discal colour of the $, the spots clearlj^ reddish-yellow, especially on the hindwings. 

 Beneath almost cinnamon-coloured. Mount Hood. 



Th. mardon Edw. (181 b) is above light greyish-brown, scaled yellow with a more distinctly reddish- 

 yellow costal part of the forewing and traces of such subapical and postdiseal small spots. Beneath light grey, 

 more or less strewn with yellowish, the spots of above repeated whitish, besides a bent macular band in the 

 middle of the hindwing. Oregon. Washington. 



Th. athenion Hhn. (181 c) is in the ^ sex above uni-coloured blackish-brown with the broad stigma 

 behind which there may appear verj' indistinct light spots which are very distinct in the $. Beneath duller 

 greyish-brown, spotted lighter on the forewing. Hindwing violettish-grej^ with a dark brown discal band, costal- 

 marginal and distal-marginal spots. Mexico to Brazil. 



Th. bahiensis Schs. is dull brown, cell of forewing ferruginous-brown, as well as a stripe at the base 

 of the costa and small stripes above the cell-end, 3 small subapical spots and 2 small spots near the middle 

 of the distal margin, as well as lighter shades behind the stigma; the disc of the hindwing is also ferru- 

 ginous-brown, parted by the darker veins. Beneath the same, but of a duller colouring. Expanse of wings: 

 23 mm. Bahia. 

 dares. Th. dares Plotz (181c) seems to be verj' similar, so that both may in certain cases be comprised 



as dares. According to the figm'e, only the small spots at the middle of the distal margin are absent and the 

 under surface is lighter, more yellowish-grey, strewn with ferruginous-brownish, with a blackish inner-marginal 

 ray being thickened towards the anal angle. From Brazil and Bolivia. 



mardon. 



aihenioii. 



bahiensis. 



81. Genus: Polites Scddr 



haracoa. 



sabuleti. 



ch ispa . 



ignora)ts 



winsloici 



Antennae and palpi as in Hylephila, also the veins. The (^ stigma consists of a somewhat bent stripe 

 of reverted black scent-scales, below and outside of it with a spot of similar, flatter scales. 



P. coras Cr. (= peckins Ky., wamsutta Harr.) (181 c, d) is a smaller, squat species, blackish-brown, 

 in the basal and larger costal-marginal half with small subapical and postdiseal spots; also on the hindwing 

 there is a broad postdiseal band of spots, the second from above being very long, proximallj' and distally projec- 

 ting from the row. The 2 is without the reddish-yellow basal half. Canada to Virginia, Kansas and Iowa. 



P. baracoa Luc. (= amadis H.-Schdff., myus French) (181 d) is above reddish-yellow, at the margin 

 olive-brownish with a similar longitudinal spot behind the cell to the margin and from the proximal margin 

 on both sides of the stigma ; hindwing unmarked, fringes ochreous-yellow. In the !? only the costal margin 

 is broadly reddish-yellow and 2 small postdiseal spots. Beneath of a verj' dull colouring with a somewhat lighter 

 postmedian macular band. Florida and Cuba. 



P. sabuleti Bsd. (= genoa Plotz) (181 d) looks above like a small, squat H. phylaeus with more 

 darkened margins, especiallj^ the hindwmgs are bordered darker. Beneath lighter with still lighter spots being 

 proximally and distally boi'dered by oblong black spots. California. 



P. chispa Wright (181 d) is onh' half as large, above still more broadly bordered with dark, so that 

 the wedge-shaped spots are less prominent. The under surface is purelj^ olive-grej'- with a distinct, coherent, 

 whitish postdiseal band of the hindwing without the black spots of the preceding. California. 



P. ignorans Plotz (181 e) is apparently- allied to chispa, the colom is a pm'er golden yellow, the black 

 margin of the hindwing very broad. Beneath the hindwing is darker, almost blackish-brown, the light postdiseal 

 band similarly shaped as in coras, with a fine light anteterminal line. Venezuela. 



P. winslowi Weeks is doubtfully placed here. Above dark brown, towards the base reddish yellowish- 

 brown, in the disc golden brown, stigma black. Hindwing dark brown, in the disc tan-coloured, at the proximal 



