1874.] 207 iScudder. 



examination does not prove that this old world group will need 

 still further subdivision, and that P. Pyranthe Linn, can stand as the 

 type of Murtia, with its comparatively shorter antennse and differ- 

 ently formed wings, and slightly differing neuratiofc. 



Three species are given by Butler as found within the limits of the 

 United States: — 



1. Phoebis Agarithe, which he quotes from Texas. The other 

 localities given by him are Brazil, Santa Martha, Caraccas, Yucatan, 

 Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela and Hayti. Dr. Palmer has recently 

 brought home a fine pair of this species from Key West, the ? closely 

 resembling Butler's figure; but the <? much larger, as large as But- 

 ler's figure of P. rorata d", from which, however, it differs con- 

 spicuously in the extent of the sexual mealy border of the fore 

 wings. There are two males from Texas in the Museum of Compar- 

 ative Zoology, one of the large and one of the small size, which do 

 not otherwise differ. This is probably the insect catalogued by Mr. 

 Edwards in his Synopsis as Callidryas Argante. 



2. Callidryas Eubule, which he gives from St. John's Bluff 

 and from "N. America," only. This is doubtless the Callidryas 

 Eubule of Edwards' Synopsis. I can scarcely understand the figure 

 of the male given by Butler. The mealy border of the fore wings 

 is represented as a comparatively narrow band of nearly equal 

 width, terminating below at the submedian nervure, and forming 

 a couple of short oval patches next the margin of the costal border 

 I have never seen such an insect, and although the extent of this belt 

 unquestionably varies considerably in C. Eubule, I can hardly help 

 supposing that Mr. Butler has overlooked its true limits in the speci- 

 men he figures, or else that it was partially obliterated. Specimens 

 collected by Dr. Palmer at Jacksonville, St. John's River, Florida 

 (very near St. John's Bluff, at the mouth of the river), agree in gen- 

 eral with those from the northernmost point at which the species has 

 been taken abundantly (Long Island, N. Y.), in having a slender ex- 

 tension of this band along the inner border nearly to its middle, nar- 

 rowing as it passes toward the base ; in all the subcostal interspaces 

 the patches (always separated from each other by the nervures) often 

 extend almost to their very base, leaving but a narrow, free space 

 between the patches and the nervures ; this is especially the case in 

 those interspaces which open upon the costal margin ; in the lowest 

 subcostal interspace (that lying between the two inferior subcostal 

 nervules, or what the English entomologists call the discoidal ner- 



