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worded that when taken in connection with illustrations and 

 type localities no mistakes can be made as to what the author 

 had in mind. Although many descriptions certainly are in- 

 adequate, still the majority of them are fairly satisfactory, 

 and our first move in studying a species is always to read the 

 verbatim account of the author and consider his words in 

 connection with the type locality. 



We are very glad to find that our article has resulted in the 

 publishing of the fine illustrations in Messrs. Barnes and Mc- 

 Dunnough's article in the NEWS. As for their remarks con- 

 cerning them, our own study, and the illustrations themselves, 

 lead us to entirely different conclusions. 



Referring to the illustrations of leda and ines, so called, we 

 note that these variations came from identical localities, are 

 not even seasonal, and are the widest variations obtainable 

 from a set of one hundred specimens. We may corroborate 

 this by saying that we have several sets of from five to twenty 

 specimens each, taken in widely separated localities, in which 

 the same variation can be noticed. For example, Mr. Haskin, 

 during two days' careful search, took seven specimens from 

 one small clump of willow, covering not more than twenty 

 square feet of space, in a sandy wash near Cananea, Mexico. 

 Another set of six came from a patch of mesquite, east of 

 Needles, California, on the Arizona side of the Colorado 

 River and about eighty miles from Prescott, the type locality 

 of leda. And, by the way, the type locality of incs is not 

 Prescott, as stated by Messrs. Barnes and McDunnough, but 

 Southern Arizona. (See Edwards' original description.) 



Again, Mr. Grinnell has a set of twenty specimens from one 

 limited locality in Southern California. The extremes of this 

 latter set in particular are even more marked than in the illus- 

 trations, yet it would be stretching one's imagination to at- 

 tempt to separate them into species or even forms. These 

 facts, together with the well known fact that there are many 

 other small species, especially among the Theclas, which vary 

 as much as and even more than the one under discussion, con- 

 firm us in the belief that we are right in claiming that leda and 

 incs are but synonyms. 



