TOO ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [Mar., 'iS 



preparations of the genitalia of the two California species in- 

 volved, with a request for a comparison with the type. He 

 promptly forwarded hoth slides and type to Dr. R. L. Reverdin 

 at Geneva, Switzerland, who made a preparation from the type 

 specimen in the same manner in which mine were made, i. c., 

 with the girdle, clasps and aedoeagus separately mounted, and 

 the photograph of this is reproduced here (Plate IV) thus 

 establishing cnoptcs Boisd. It will be noted that Drs. Barnes 

 and McDunnough had correctly determined the species. 



Dr. Reverdin writes that the genitalia agree with those of 

 my specimen which was from Truckee, California. VII, (Sin- 

 clair), and states that the aedoeagus of cnoptcs is bilobed at 

 its internal extremity, though this character is only indicated 

 in the photograph. 



In addition to the Truckee series of cnoptcs, I have this 

 species, genitalically determined, from Benton County, Oregon, 

 larger in size and differing somewhat in the relative intensity 

 of the maculation from type, but probably not sufficiently to 

 warrant a varietal name. 



I also have cnoptcs, genitalically determined, from F.ureka, 

 Utah, 7000 ft. VI, i (Spalding) ; Park City, Utah, VII. 5 

 (Snyder) ; Stockton, Utah, VI, 13; Chimney Gulch, Golden, 

 Colorado, V (Oslar). These are the ylaucon of B. & McD. 



The second example sent over by me was from an insect 

 from Havilah, California, VI, ir> (Grinnell). resembling the 

 figure of cnoptcs and since named battoides bcnwrdino by 

 Barnes and McDunnough, with which it agrees in the male 

 genitalia. That their conception of baltoidcs Behr is correct, 

 is confirmed by the fact that there is an insect in the Henry 

 Edwards collection in New York, labelled "Lone Mountain. 

 Lake Tahoe," and in his catalog marked by him "True to type" 

 (of battoides), which agrees with the Barnes and McDunnough 

 figure except that it is not quite so strongly marked below. 



I have battoides bcrnardino, genitalically determined, from 

 Bodie ; Fredalba VII, 23 (Pilate) ; Southern California (Po- 

 ling) ; Techachapi. VII, 4 (Haskin) ; Nellie, California, VII, 

 2T, (Hewlett) and battoides ccntralis from Jcmez Mountains, 

 New Mexico, VII, 18, (Woodgate). 



