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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 Excerpt: ...L. Leda 8. It differs, however, in being smaller, and in having the stigma larger, whiw. with a black tip. The male is destitute of the black wing tip, and like the female, has the exterior half of the costal margin tinged slightly with ferruginous. The anal processes are short, subcylindric, a little smaller at base, and beneath, towards the tip, minutely denticulated; at tip a small point. The sexes were sent me by Dr. Harris. Length from one inch and three-fifths to one inch and seventenths. 10. L. Basalis.--Wings fuscous on the basal half. Inhabits the United States. Body brownish-black; head immaculate, dark bluish; win). dark fuliginous opaque, on the basal half, beyond which i broad, milk-white almost opaque band; stigma blackish; abdomen somewhat depressed, of equal diameter nearly to the tip, dusky, with a lateral dull yellowish vitta; beneath black-brown. Length nearly two inches. In a note attached to this description by Mr. Say, 24 it ' reference to L. marginata Degeer. Wings fuscous from the base nearly to the middle. L. dimidiata Fabr. V. Enc. Mcth., refers to Seba. which i. quite different. Said to be from Surinam, and is much smaller, to which species the above described insect seems to bear some resemblance in the arrangement of its colors.--Ed. Synonym is L. luctuosa Burm. Handb. 2, 861.--Uhlzr. 11. L. Eponina.--Upper wings bifasciatc and with a spot near the base; lower wings with a band and interrupted one, and tmbbasal line and spot. Inhabits Pennsylvania and Indiana. /j. eponina Drury, Vol. 2, pl. 47, fig. 2. Oliv. Enc. Meth. 72, No. 10. Wings pale ferruginous; upper pair with a subbasal spot, band n the middle, and another band before the stigma, fuscous; inferior wings with a corresponding band t...

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