HALOTUS. By Dr. M. Draudt. 943 



St. textor Hbn. (= oneko Scddr., waculla Ediv.) (183 b) is easily recognized by its peculiarly marked ie.rtor. 

 under surface and not to be mistaken: greyish-brown, with somewhat lighter veins, on the forewing with one 

 yellowish-white macular line, on the hind^^'ing with two, being connected at the costal margin ^nd in the middle. 

 Southern Atlantic States. 



St. samoset Scddr. (= hegon Scddr., nemoris Ediv., alternata Grt. ds Rob.) (183 b). Above dark brown, samo.^et. 

 the grey fringes speckled somewhat darker ; in the cell of the forewing there are 2 small white dots, 3 subapically 

 and postdiscallj' and at the proximal margin 3 more. Beneath light grey, forewing as above, hindwing with a 

 white macular band, cellular spot and a larger one in the middle of the costal margin. Atlantic States. 



St. simius Edw. (183 b) is somewhat larger, subapical and postdiscal spots together form a yellowish- sim-iiw. 

 red, subapically angular macular band. Hindwing in the disc reddish-yellow. Beneath very light, marked 

 as the preceding, but the macular band of the hindwing is darker, the cellular spot very large, and the base 

 of the hind^^'ing -whitish. South California, Arizona. 



St. cassus Edw. is allied to exoteria and aenus (183 a); forewing above brown, dusted with reddish- cas-^n^. 

 yellow, especially intensely in the inner-marginal area, with 3 small, ferruginous-yellow subapical dots and 

 an oblique discal row of spots. Hindwing except the dark costal margin dark reddish-yellow, not spotted. 

 Fringes whitish, at the veins darkened. Beneath the forewing is reddish-yellow in the discal and apical parts, 

 at the base and proximal margin black, at the apex dusted whitish. Hindwing brown, dusted white, at the 

 inner-marginal third reddish-yellOw, spotted whitish. The 9 is larger, darker, the spots more yellowish- 

 white. Arizona (Mt. Graham). 



St. tolteca Scddr. (183 b) resembles exoteria, but it has a double white cellular spot of the forewing, iolk-ca. 

 the oblique row of spots is more curved, the ^ stigma different. Mexico. 



St. florus G. <& S. looks very much like Amblys^irtes fluonia (183 a), but different by the stigma, ihru.^. 

 and the under surface is darker and more monotonous. Mexico. 



St. comus Edw. (= nilus Edw.) (183 b). Above lustrous greyish-brown, forewing with 3 minute comu.i: 

 subapical dots, as well as 3 white spots below and behind the cell. Beneath lighter, the spots more distinct: 

 hindwing with 9 dots, 6 in one row parallel to the distal margin, 3 near the base. Texas, Mexico. 



St. nereus Edw. (183 b, c) is larger than comus, the palpal terminal joint longer, the lower row of n<^rem. 

 spots more distinct. From Arizona to Mexico. 



St. arabus Edw. Above lustrous dark brown, forewing with 3 small, semi-diaphanous subapical dots, "rahuss. 

 a cellular dot and 3 small postdiscal spots ; fringes brown. Beneath brown, at the distal margin and apex dusted 

 greyish-brown. Hindwing greyish-brown, in the disc brown as far as the costal margin. Described according 

 to a 2 taken in South Arizona in October. Expanse of wings: 1,3 inch. 



St. fusca Grt. & Rob. is a small species with a somewhat protracted, pointed apex of the forewing iu.^ca. 

 and a rather straight distal margin. Above uni-coloured olive-blackish, in an oblique light with a slight golden 

 reflection; fringes somewhat lighter, not spotted. Beneath strewn with golden brown, especiallj^ the hindwing 

 strewn with a light golden colour except an olive-blackish ray before the proximal margin. Georgia, Florida. 



St, oslari Shinner is similar, larger, above monotonously light brownish-black, the stigma a little oslari. 

 more blackish. Beneath the forewing exhibits a black basal spot above bordered with reddish-yellow; hmdwing 

 on a dark brown ground strewn with white scales. Colorado (Chimney). 



St. gallio Mob. Above blackish-brown, the spots from beneath merely traceable. Beneath the same, yaUio. 

 with 3 light yellow subapical dots, below them in an oblique row some more towards the middle of the proximal 

 margin, the lowest being larger and white ; costal margin with white striae ; one in the middle of the cell and 

 2 .small ones in the apex itself. Hindwing with 7 punctiform spots in a bent line, the uppermost being remote 

 from the others, the third from above prolonged and projecting, the lowest moon-shaped; distal margin strewn 

 with yellow, ends of veins bordered with yellow. Brazil. 



St. pupillatus Mab. (183 c) is above greyish-brown, spots beneath grey or faintly whitish, fringes i)iipiUaii(.<^. 

 reddish. Beneath reddish-brown, with a postdiscal row of prolonged, small, black punctiform spots as in the 

 Lycaena proximally bordered with whitish, also on the hindwing representing small eye-spots; the uppermost 

 is the largest, the 3rd double; in the cell a greyish-black spot. Bolivia. 



100. Genus: Halotus G. <t S. 



Different from Amblyscirtes by the more depressed middle radial vein of the forewing and the q stigma 

 which is double: a triangular part fills up the angle of the rise of the lower median vein, below it there is a 

 short longitudinal stripe. 



H. angellus Plotz (= saxula Mab.) (183c). Blackish-brown with a darker stigma; the forewing angellus. 

 shows 2 minute subapical dots and 2 white spots below and behind the cell. Beneath blackish-brown with 

 the spots as above, the lower crescentiform ; at the anal angle there is a dirty yellow stripe-shaped spot. Hindwing 

 with a lighter undulate band; fringes dark yellow, spotted black. Known from Costa Rica and Panama. 



