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One specimen, deposited in the collection of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. 



Color Variant 2. Like the typical form described above, but with 

 mandibles for the most part stramineous, palpi dark stramineous, tegu- 

 lae stramineous, apices of fore coxae touched with stramineous, fore 

 trochanters and femora entirely stramineous, middle tarsi mostly stra- 

 mineous, but their apical segments brown. 



One specimen, deposited in the collection of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. 



Color Variant 3. Like Color Variant 2, but with distal half of mid- 

 dle femora stramineous, middle tibiae entirely stramineous, and hind 

 tibiae considerably stramineous along their front sides except at base 

 and apex. 



Two specimens, one of which is deposited in the collection 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural College. 



This very variable species may grade into forms heretofore 

 described, but, as its relationships are unknown and as it seems 

 necessary to establish its identity in connection with the writ- 

 er's cranberry insect investigations, it is here described as new. 

 Moreover, the detailed description of so great variation as is 

 shown by these specimens is always desirable. 



Boisduval's Lycaena piasus and Lycaena rhaea (Lep.). 



By J. R. HASKIN, Los Angeles, Cal. 



Two very interesting series of notes have recently been pub- 

 lished concerning M. Charles Oberthiir's figures of the Bois- 

 duval types of North American Lycaenidae. One of them is 

 entitled "Lycaenidae of California Described by Boisduval," 

 by William Phillips Comstock, in the Journal of the New 

 York Entomological Society, Vol. xxii, No. I, March, 1914, 

 and the other is entitled "Notes on the Synonymy of Boisdu- 

 val's N. American Species of Lycaenidae," by J. McDun- 

 nough, Ph.D., in the Entomologist's Record and Journal of 

 Variation, Vol. xxvi, No. 9, September 15, 1914, in London, 

 Eng. Messrs. Comstock and McDunnough, after an examina- 

 tion of Oberthiir's figures, have both come to the conclusion 

 that American entomologists, during the past fifty years, have 



