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Its nearest relatives, Aucheira socialis and E. Terlootii, belong to 
the Mexican Sierra Madre, and if of a distinct genus form, a transi- 
tion between it and the Central American Dysmorphia, in the same 
way that the European Leucophasia connects the amphitropical 
Terias (Heurema) with the gerontotropical Pontia. 
Third.—There remain as the only endemic species two Melitaas 
and three Argynnides, all extending northward into Oregon. No 
one of them represents an isolated type. They form links in long 
series of modifications that are still a puzzle to systematists and are 
quoted as undeniable proofs of Darwinism. 
If so, none of the species can be considered as in statu nascendo, 
at least all the specimens are well defined and do not show any 
transitional characters, and though it cannot be denied that inter- 
mediate ill-defined specimens are met with in other localities, this is 
not the place to enter into such complicated questions, nor has 
sufficient material been collected to admit of any generalizations 
which would not be subject to constant modifications. 
THE HEDGEROWS OF TODOS SANTOS. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
During the month of January last, I found myself at the little 
town of Todos Santos, on the peninsula of Baja California, nearly 
under the Tropic of Cancer. This Todos Santos must not be con- 
founded with Ensenada de Todos Santos, at the northern end of 
the peninsula. It was very difficult to reach this small out of the 
way place, situated on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, and the route 
I chose was by a trail one hundred and eighty miles long, which 
was followed on horseback with a Mexican boy, Jesus Selgado, for 
a guide. Heavy rains had fallen in September, and the vegetation 
came rapidly forward and either matured its fruit or withered in the 
succeeding dry weather. At the beginning of my long ride there 
fella steady rain of two or three days’ duration, and for quite a 
while our horses waded through water and mud sometimes two feet 
deep, but the hot sun soon dried out the soil, and in a few days it 
assumed its usual barren appearance. Todos Santos is not a port 
of entry and cannot be reached by steamer from any place, most of 
its commerce being carried on by way of La Paz. The townis built 
