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to the distal fifth of the submedian fold, which it then leaves running in a very slightly 8-shaped curve to 
the end of the lower median branch. Hindwing white with darker veins and a narrow dark grey margin. 
Mexico (Tehuacan, Puebla). 
C, alfarata StrecJc. (= phila 8m.). Forewing light grey with a black basal ray as far as the strongly ulfarata. 
dentate antemedian line; maculae absent; the posterior transverse line is more distinct only near the proximal 
margin from where the usual black submedian ray extends to the anal angle; the costal-marginal area is 
somewhat darkened with an oblique subapical shade. Hindwing white with a brown marginal band. Expanse 
of wings: 40 mm. From Florida, Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, and Virginia. — The larva is light green, on 
the ventrum somewhat darker, with a broad orange-red dorsal stripe, subdorsally broad black with narrow 
continuations before and behind the stigmata downward; below them with a broad, orange-red, somewhat 
undulate substigmatal line. It lives on wild asters in September and October; imago only in August. 
C. speyeri Lintn. (25 g) is similar to dorsalis, somewhat smaller, darker purple grey with a brownish speycri. 
tint, the lower bordering of the maculae represented by slight arcuate streaks; the posterior transverse line 
is only distinct towards the proximal margin, and on the submedian fold bipartite with pointed ends, before 
them here mostly with a whitish spot; in a brownish apical patch there are whitish streaks; in the marginal 
area single internerval streaks and the usual black stripe at the end of the submedian fold. Hindwing white, 
on the veins and margin brownish. From Canada to New York, Illinois, Montana. 
C. laetifica Lintn. (= cita Grt., hartmanni French ) (25 f) is extremely similar to speyeri, mostly laetifica. 
somewhat smaller, and distinguished by the posterior transverse stripe forming on the submedian fold only 
one, rather rounded projection instead of the 2 pointed teeth of speyeri. Texas; Arizona. — The larva is very 
similar to that of alfarata, yellowish-green with red dorsal and sublateral stripes, a broad black subdorsal band 
and with irregularly interrupted black rings; ventrum and feet spotted black. It lives on Compositae. 
C. costaricensis Hmps. (= edificans Dyar). Forewing light grey, cost-ally, in and behind the cell tinted costariccn- 
recl-brown, the submedian tooth of the anterior transverse line widely open; instead of the maculae there su 
are only 3 black dots along the discal fold in the cell; at the costal margin 2 blackish nebulous patches; 
apex blackish; the distal transverse line is distinct, whitish, towards the proximal margin bordered with black, 
behind it subanally the usual black strigiform spot. Hindwing light grey with blackish-brown veins and distal 
margin. Expanse of wings: 46 mm. Costa Rica (Cac-hi). 
C. buddhae Wkr. (= phocylides Drc. part.) (25 li) is somewhat like dentilinea (25 g), but much buddhae. 
more brownish in the colour and without the black dots of the macular bordering, only with an arcuate streak 
below the reniform macula; instead of the undulate line there are small black sagittae, subanally 2 thick, black 
spots separated by whitish. Hindwing brownish, with darker veins and margin. Mexico; Costa Rica; Venezuela. 
C. minor B. <£ McD. (25 h) is a small dark grey species, with almost quite extinct, indistinct minor. 
double transverse lines, the anterior line submedianly very pointedly dentate, the posterior line only marked 
at the proximal margin; the maculae are finely surrounded by black, the reniform macula pupillecl with a small 
brownisch luna; the dark anal spot is parted by an undulate light line. Hindwing of a pure white with a 
fine dark marginal line. New Mexico. 
C. obtusa 8m. is very conspicuous by the short, broad shape of the wings. The grey forewing with obtusa. 
a yellowish tint in the cell, without maculae, the anterior transverse line only marked by dots on the veins, 
the whitish undulate line distally defined by small brownish internerval spots. Hindwing yellowish-white 
with a blackish margin. Expanse of wings: 38 to 41 mm. Arizona. 
C. tucumani Hmps. is one of the smallest species, bluish-grey dusted with brown, especially at tucumani. 
the costal margin; the anterior transverse line is indistinct with 2 black dots at the proximal margin; the 
maculae are whitish, brown-pupilled diffuse spots with a brown oblique line from the lower cell-angle to the 
proximal margin; the posterior transverse line is brown, in the lower half composed of double dots parted by 
white; instead of the undulate line there are grey sagittae anteriorly bordered with brown, distally with black. 
Hindwing white with a broad blackish-brown marginal band. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Argentina. 
C. peruensis Dogn. is still smaller than tucumani, whitish-grey, particularly towards the base strewn peruensis. 
with white, without any maculae, towards the margin between the veins blackened with small whitish undulate 
linear spots which are in front and behind bordered with a darker colour and extend obliquely to the apex: 
the veins of the marginal area are fine black. Hindwing diaphanous whitish, the veins and margin blackish. 
Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Peru (Trujillo). 
C. nanuscula Dyar has stone-coloured grey wings without transverse lines and maculae with a long, nanuscula. 
fine basal ray, also the distal end of the median and its lower branches being finely striped black; costal 
