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in Boisduval's spec. gen. Boisduval, in his Icones, figures Taygete and calls 

 it Bootes without any reference to Hubnei. Bootes is an European species, 

 Taygete an American only, and the priority of name belongs to Hubner. The 

 only description we have, therefore, being incorrect, I described Taygete from 

 Mr. Drexler's specimen. Herrich-Schaeffer, Lep. Eur. f. 112, gives Taygete as 

 same with Boisduval's C. also. But C. also is Hipparehia semidea of Say, a 

 species as yet only known to be found in the White Mountains of New Hamp- 

 shire. Boisduval's description was taken from a single specimen forwarded 

 by the late Dr. Harris to Major Le Conte with Say's name, which should have 

 been retained. C. semidea appears to have been lost sight of, and doubted as 

 a species for many years, till, in 1857, Mr. Scudder found it abundant on the 

 summit of Mt. Washington. 



Chinobas Taygete. 



Olneis Taygete, Hubner. 



C. Boo/es, Boisduval and Le Conte. 



C. Bootes, Boisduval in Icones. 



Female. Expands 2-2 inches. 



Upper side ochrey brown, both wings, from the base to beyond the cell, 

 clouded with black, which makes externally an irregular outline, crenate in 

 the median interspaces of primaries ; hind margin of both wings and apex of 

 primaries bordered with dark brown ; between ihis and the clouded space a 

 broad common band, in which, on the primaries, are three black pyriform 

 spots, the first being between the discoidal nervules and the others in the two 

 spaces between the median nervules ; a small round black spot in the anal 

 angle of secondaries ; costal margin of primaries sprinkled with black and 

 grey. 



Under side : primaries paler, the whole wing marked by fine, transverse, 

 abbreviated streaks of dark brown, most dense in the cell; spots as above ; 

 costa barred with grey and black ; a heavy black line corresponds nearly to 

 the dark outline of clouded space above, but wants the crenations and pro- 

 jects on the second discoidal nervule into an acute angle. 



Secondaries wholly mottled and streaked transversely with grey, light brown 

 and black, the latter color predominating next the base, and light brown on 

 the hind margin ; a broad band crosses the disk, black on the edges, the inner 

 edge angular, the outer sinuous ; a minute black spot in the anal angle ; ner- 

 vures grey and prominent. 



Albany River, Hudson's Bay, by Mr. Drexler. 



Pamphila versa, no v. sp. 



Expands 1*2 inch. Size and form of Otho. 



Male. Both wings dark glossy brown ; body covered with greenish hairs ; 

 on costa of primaries near apex a yellowish spot, divided into three by the 

 nervures, on the disk an oblique black bar, posterior to which, and running 

 with it from the middle of the inner margin, are three yellowish, translucent 

 spots, the anterior minute, the next a parallelogram, the third separated from 

 the second by a wide space. 



Beneath dark brown, with a purple reflection ; same spots on primaries as 

 above, but enlarged ; across the disk of secondaries an obsolete row of points, 

 thorax grey ; abdomen, head and palpi whitish. 



Female. Same color ; the oblique band of yellowish spots varies, the 

 second being nearly square and preceded by an additional small spot at its 

 upper inner angle. Beneath lighter brown ; the obsolete points on second- 

 aries of the male become distinct yellow spots, crossing the wing two-thirds 

 the distance from the abdominal margin, when they bend at right angles, and 

 run nearly to the costa. 



Illinois, from Mr. Walsh, Washington. 



1862.] 



