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here enumerated. I have also to thank Mr. W. W. Newcomer 

 and many others who have liberally given me specimens from 

 all parts of North America, so that I now have in my collec- 

 tion over 600 specimens from different parts of that continent 

 and have examined at least a couple of hundred in other col- 

 lections. 



Careful examination and comparison reveal variations oc- 

 curring in American forms on much the same lines as obtain in 

 European forms, but we have, however, none of the beautiful 

 blue females that are fairly frequent in America. The dull 

 blue of our polysperchon is so dull and of such restricted area 

 that it does not at all approach to the bright and large suffusions 

 of comyntas or the almost entirely blue females that are ap- 

 parently the prevalent form in Southern California. Mr. N. 

 Criddle sent me some specimens of amyntitla from Aweme, 

 Manitoba, which approximate somewhat closely to the Austro- 

 Hungarian and Balkan decolorata Stgr. on the upper side, but 

 the under side is quite different. In both the American insects 

 the size varies very considerably, quiet as much nay more 

 in the apparently single-brooded am \mtul a than in the many- 

 brooded comyntas. 



It may be well now to treat with the species individually, 

 but in so doing I would say I do not propose to deal with all 

 the literature, but rather to consider the species in relation to 



each other. 



Everes comyntas Godart. 



Everes comyntas Scudd., Syst. Rev., p. 35 (18/2) ; Buff. Bull. Hi, 

 p. 114 (1876): Butts, pp. 130, 152, 308, fig. 125 (1881) ; Butts, New 

 Eng., ii, p. 911, pi. VT, ff. 9 and 10 (1889) ; Brief Guide, p. 123 (1893). 

 Staudinger and Rebel, p. 77 (1901). Dyar List, Bull. U. S. N. M., 

 p. 45 (1902). Tutt. Brit. Butt., III. p. 72 (1909). 



Lycacua coiuyiitas Doubleday, List Lep. B. M., ii, p. 43 (1847). Ed- 

 wards, Can. Ent, viii, p. 202 (1876). Middl., Lep. Ins. Til., x, p. 95 

 (1881). Fernakl, Butts. Maine, p. 01, f. 32 (1884). Edwards, Cat. X. 

 Am. Butt., p. 65 (1884). French. Butts. E. Un. States, p. 292 (1886). 

 Maynard, Butts. New Eng., p. 40, pi. V, ff. 50, 5oa (1886). Godrrr. and 

 Salv., Biol. C. Am. Rlmp.. ii. p. 108 (1887). Ckll., Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc., xx, p. 355 (1893). Grant, Can. Ent., xxix. p. 208 (181)7). Williams. 

 Can. Ent., xxxv, p. 187 (1903). 



