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veral white spots before the apex, termen brownish. Underside pale yellow, with the usual Phyciodes-pat- 
tern somewhat obsolete. 
Ph. diallus Godm. a. Salv. (90 a), from Guatemala, has nearly the same shape as fulviplaga. Upper sur- diallus. 
face blackish-fuscous, with few yellowish marks in the middle of forewing and at the outer margin of hindwing. 
Under surface: Forewing greyish brown, with yellowish terminal spots, hindwing yellowish-grey, with the usual 
Phyciodes markings. 
Ph. chromis Godm. a. Salv. is possibly only a form of diallus, from which it does not differ at all in 3, chromis. 
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whereas the O° has the spots on the forewing paler than typical diallus. Panama. 
Ph. cassiopea Godm. a. Salv. (90a) has the upper surface blackish brown, with blurred yellowish cassiopea. 
markings. Hindwings with a yellow submarginal line and an incomplete row of black, yellow margined 
ocelli. Underneath the forewings are greyish-brown, with yellowish spots at termen, the hindwings yellowish- 
grey, marked with brown. Costa Rica. — obscurata Fldr. (90 a), from Mexico, the typical form, the type of obseurata. 
which was lent by Dr. K. Jorpay, is rather smaller, the white subapical dots are absent, and the underside is 
paler and more devoid of markings. 
Ph. fulviplaga Btlr. (90 a), from Costa Rica and Chiriqui is distinguished by the unusually broad wings. fulviplaga. 
Upper surface black-brown, with a more or less extensive subapical blotch of brownish-yellow and several 
similar spots at the termen. The forewings are blackish-brown beneath, with the same brown-yellow subapical 
spot and yellow termen as above. Underside of hindwings mottled with brown and reddish on a yellowish 
ground. 
Ph. niveonotis Bélr. a. Druce (90 a), from Costa Rica resembles drusinilla, but has the markings of the niveonotis. 
upper surface very feebly yellowish, almost white, and the ground-colour of the underside whitish. 
Ph. drusinilla Sfgr. i. 1. (90 a), from Argentina, has the upper surface blackish fuscous, with a large drusinilla. 
yellow discal spot and 2 small subapical spots on the forewings, and a yellow median band on the hindwings. 
Under surface dirty yellow, with broadly blackish costal margin and black subapical band on the forewings, and 
the markings of the hindwings brownish as usual, but almost obsolete. 
Ph. subconcolor spec. nov. (90b), from Arizona, has numerous cbsolete yellowish-brown spots on subconcolor. 
brownish-black ground. Underneath the basal area of the forewings dirty yellowish, with black stripes, the outer 
area marked as above. Underside of hindwings reddish-white along costa, in the posterior half brownish- 
grey, with brown markings, particularly a large spot near costa and a smaller one in the middle. 
Ph. ptolyca Bates (90 b), from Guatemala and Venezuela has the markings of the upper surface broader _ptolyca. 
than in minima, varying from darker to lighter. Under surface marked with fuscous on whitish or yellowish 
ground. 
Ph. faustus Godm. a. Salv. Very much like ptolyca, but the spots on the forewings are different; The faustus. 
lower of the two central ones larger, almost round; two-others before the apex, the lower of which minute, 
the upper elongate. Median band of hindwings coherent, the submarginal band obsolete. Panama: Chiriqui. 
Ph. phlegias Godm. a. Salv. (90 b as platytaenia), likewise resembles ptolyca, but has the outer margin phlegias. 
more deeply excavated, the spots larger, brillant rufous, on the hindwings a brillant ochreous yellow median 
band, growing broader towards the apex, tapering towards the inner margin. Honduras. 
Ph. drusilla Fldr., from Venezuela and Colombia, resembles orthia above, but has the forewings even drusilla. 
more profusely spotted with yellow, and on the hindwings 2 yellow submarginal lines. Under surface more 
richly marked, but with the terminal eye-spots on the hindwings only just indicated. 9 above marked with 
pale yellow, almost white. — Whether albofascia nov. form. (90 b), from Guatemala, of which we figure the 2, albofascia. 
is a form of drusilla or a species of its own, cannot be decided, until further material is available. It lacks 
on the hindwings the median band which is only indicated by a pale, obsolete line; forewings with a broad 
white fascia extending to beyond the 1. median. Under surface paler than that of drusilla 92, otherwise 
hardly different. 
Ph. tulcis Bates (= punctata Hdw.) (90 b, c), from Guatemala, Panama and the southern United tulcis. 
States, is distinguished by the sexes greatly differing in size, the g being very much smaller than the 2. Up- 
perside likewise blackish fuscous, with pale yellow markings, especially a very prominent median band on 
the hindwings. Underneath both wings with yellowish base. 
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