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EUBAPHE. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
aurantiaca. 
brevicornis. 
rubicunda- 
ria. 
ferruginosa. 
quinaria. 
bimaculata. 
diminutiva. 
behnaria. 
opella. 
rubricosta. 
immacu- 
lata. 
trimaculo- 
sa. 
intermedia. 
cocciniceps. 
parvula. 
polyphron. 
feronia. 
lata. 
1. Genus: jKubaplie Hbn. 
This genus which in conjunction with Crocota Hbn., is often mentioned by the more recent name of 
Holomelina H.-Schaff., is composed of about 2 dozen mostly North American species exhibiting yet so many 
resemblances to the Lithosiinae in their shape and habits, that older authors inserted them in the Lithosiinae. 
They are all small butterflies, with greyish-brown forewings, suffused with yellow or reddish, and red or yellow 
hind wings, mostly margined black. Proboscis absent; the long palpi in the resting imago drooping, somewhat 
beak-shaped. Head woolly, thorax with appressed scales, abdomen obtuse. In the triangular forewing the 
subcostal is 4-branched, the first branch forking close before the cell-end, the last close before the apex of the 
wing. On the hindwing veins 5 and 4 come from the lower cell-angle. Little is known of the larvae; they are 
reported not to Jive on lichens, but on low plants, having in their juvenile state a cordiform head; when groivn 
up, they show tubercles haired with short, uniform, stiff bristles, of which only those at the anterior and posterior 
ends exhibit longer hair-tufts; they hibernate and yield the imagines in June and July in the northern parts 
of the United States, whilst to the south they seem mostly to have 2 generations (in June and August). In 
day-time the larvae are met with freely on the soil, the imagines in the grass on pastures or in cleared woods; 
at night they come to the lamp. In most of the places of the United States there are always only 1 or 2 species, 
however often in various forms. Most of them occur in Mexico and the Antilles; only few go as far as Central 
America, and only I to Colombia or Peru. Opinions differ greatly as to whether the single forms are entitled 
to be called species. 
E. aurantiaca Hbn. (38 b). Forewings brown. Hindwings rosy-red, both slightly tinted yellow. Along 
the costa of the forewing a red stripe. Eastern United States, to the west as far as the Rocky Mountains and 
to the south as far as Mexico, to the north as far as Canada; mostly not rare. —■ On the hindwing there are 
sometimes faint blackish shades flowing together to a marginal band in the form brevicornis Wkr. (= mar- 
ginata Drc., belfragei Stretch) (38 b), before which band in the $ there is besides a dark discal spot. This form 
is often considered as a distinct species; it is common in the Gulf States, particularly Louisiana and Texas. —• 
rubicundaria Hbn. is almost the same, the marginal band of the hindwing very broad, the hindwings themselves 
often orange instead of rosy. — ferruginosa Wkr. has no black band of the hindwing, but dark spots (mostly 2) 
before the margin of the hindwing, and the forewings show dark brown transverse shades; it is always larger 
than aurantiaca, and, according to Rothschild, a distinct species. — quinaria Grt. (= choriona Reak.) has on 
the forewings 4 or 5 creamy-white, small spots, of which in bimaculata Sndrs. only 1 is noticeable. — Larva 
emerging from low, flatly spherical, pale yellow eggs, is light brown, with a black head, black hair and dark 
tubercles partly with light apices. Across the dorsum a dull orange-coloured dorsal line. Eggs deposited in 
June yielded the imago in August. Pupa in a light silky web. 
E. diminutiva Graef. (38 b) is perhaps only a unicolorous pygmean form of aurantiaca, according to 
Holland, however, constant, yellowish-brown, unmarked, the hindwings somewhat redder than the forewings. 
Florida, very common. 
E. opella. It occurs in lighter and darker to almost black (belmaria Ehrm., 38 a) specimens, and nigri¬ 
cans Reak., nigrifera Wkr., obscura Stretch are only names referring to such entirely or partly darkened specimens. 
Typical opella Grt. have reddish-brown forewings and almost black hindwings being reddle-coloured only in 
the inner-marginal area. — rubricosta Ehrm. are specimens being quite black, except the middle of the costa 
of the hindwing. Rather common in the Eastern United States, to the south as far as Georgia. — Larva when 
grown up dark grey with black tubercles, a black head and black hair. On low plants, very polyphagous. 
E. immaculata Reak. (38 a) is allied to the light specimens of the preceding species, also similar 
to typical aurantiaca, but larger than the latter; rarely spotted (= trimaculosa Reak.), mostly the forewings 
unicolorously yellowish-brown, hindwings dull vermilion. Texas, Colorado; rarer. 
E. intermedia Graef. (38 b) has brown forewings and purple hindwings, with such a broad black 
margin that the marginal black takes up two thirds of the whole hindwing. Costa of the forewing usually scarlet. 
Texas. — cocciniceps Sch-s. from Manitu (Colorado) has a narrower black margin of the hindwing; —- parvula 
Neum. & Dyar is coloured like the latter, but smaller, the wings not so pointed. The marginal black of the 
hindwing occupies y 3 of the wing at most. Apparently rarer. 
E. polyphron Ere. (38 b). A southern species. Hindwings like those of the preceding species, purple- 
pink with a moderately broad, black marginal band, the forewings recognizable by the thick, creamy-white 
basal ray over the proximal margin and a shorter, postcellular, parallel stripe. Mexico, not rare. 
E. feronia Ere. (38 b). Forewing with a similar, white basal ray as in polyphron, though it is interrupted 
below the cell-end bv the ground-colour. Hindwings yolk-coloured, broadly margined with black. Mexico 
(Guerrero). 
E. lata Grt. from Cuba is similar, the basal ray of the forewing not interrupted, but at the cell-end 
darkened. Hindwings orange. Type in the National Museum of Washington. 
E. arbela Ere. (38 c) is larger than the preceding. Forewings wood-coloured, without the basal ray 
or any other marking, hindwings yolk-coloured, with a blackish-brown margin. Mexico, not rare. 
arbela. 
