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cell is quite distinct ; on the secondaries the blue scaling extends 

 from the base and inner margin about midway across the wing 

 and does not exceed an imaginary line drawn from the small 

 outer tail to the base of wing. 



Aaron's reference of clytie to adria Hew., a species from 

 Brazil, can scarcely hold ; Hewitson's figure is very poor and 

 bears merely a general resemblance to clytie ; in the description 

 there are also certain details which do not tally at all with the 

 specimens before us. Wright's remark (Butt. West Coast, 

 p. 209) that cl\tie is but a slightly larger form of ines is quite 

 erroneous and not at all applicable to the true species ; what 

 species Wright has misidentified as clytie it is impossible to say 

 definitely : it may. however, be ines, for the ines of Wright is 

 the leda of Edwards. 



Thecla leda and ines are two forms much more closely allied 

 to each other than to the preceding species ; in fact we are in 

 considerable doubt as to whether they should be classed as dis- 

 tinct species or forms of one species ; they can readily be sep- 

 arated, as we shall show later, and the differences between them 

 are by no means so minute as our California friends would 

 have us suppose. Racial forms they cannot be, as we have 

 them from identical localities in Arizona, nor are they seasonal 

 variations, for our date labels show that both are taken from 

 Inly to September. The male genitalia appear practically 

 identical, so the question can only be settled positively by breed- 

 ing from ova of a known female. It would, however, be fool- 

 ish, in our opinion, in the present state of our knowledge, to 

 sink one as the synonym of the other ; names sunk as synonyms 

 are gradually lost sight of, and before many years we should 

 have some enterprising entomologist describing once more this 

 same form and thus creating a true synonym. One of the main 

 points of difference between leda and ines has been passed 

 over by the authors of the above-mentioned article, viz. that in 

 ines "on secondaries, beyond disk, the gray scales prevail." 

 In fresh specimens of this form the contrast between the dark 

 and light areas on the inner and outer sides of the discal band 

 is very marked, much more so than is shown in our plate, 



