Lepidoptera, rhopaloceres and heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations . d by me, were two examples of ColiaiChrysotheme (^ 9, which after the most careful comparison I found to agree exactly with the large suite of European specimens inmy cabinet. There is the same of greyish atoms on upper surface of secondaries, and the same heavy greenish on undersurface ; they are the same size as the P^uropean examples, and agree with them throughout, to the utmost minutiae of shade and mark-ing, and are as distinct from Jiurythemef and its var. Keewaydin
Lepidoptera, rhopaloceres and heteroceres, indigenous and exotic; with descriptions and colored illustrations . d by me, were two examples of ColiaiChrysotheme (^ 9, which after the most careful comparison I found to agree exactly with the large suite of European specimens inmy cabinet. There is the same of greyish atoms on upper surface of secondaries, and the same heavy greenish on undersurface ; they are the same size as the P^uropean examples, and agree with them throughout, to the utmost minutiae of shade and mark-ing, and are as distinct from Jiurythemef and its var. Keewaydin X as they are from Aurora^^ or Pyrrothoe. \\ Dr. Boisduval long sincecredited this species to X. America, but the American Lepidopterists have united in erroneously maintaining that EuryOteiiie was theinsect he had in view, and that Chrysotheme was not found here at all. * Giorna, Cal. Ent., Torina, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 286, ( Edwards, Butt. N. Am., Colias 4, ( Esper, Schmett. I, 2, t. 83, (1783).IIHubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett., (1816-1836j. August, 1874. I * FVf->)»T^.. /German -^ireokar aal. EUD^MONIA JEHOVAH. Kov. sp. on page 93 of this work. (PLATE XII, FIG. 1, cf.) Male. Expands 4| inches. Head and collar grey, with a pinkish tinge. Thorax and abdomen dark brownish grey. Upper surface ; primaries grey, paler and with a somewhat pinkish tinge towards thecosta ; a dark brownbasal patch ; a triangular, transparent discal mark which is prolonged in a fine line upwards to the costalnervure, and is surrounded with a dark brown cloud; beyond this, two irregular transverse lines cross thewing from inner to costal margin, the innermost one broken near the middle, from which inwards it is doubleor accompanied by a narrow shade; these two lines are close to each other from the inner margin half way,whence they begin to diverge and become widely separated as they near thecosta; midway, and joining on theouter edge of the outermost of these two line
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