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Everes comyntas and amyntula (Lepid.). 



By G. T. BETHUNE-BAKER, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. 



(Continued from page 103.) 

 Everes amyntula. Boisd. 



Ei'eres ainyntnla Scudder, Syst. Rev. Peabody Ac. Sc., p. 56 (1872) ; 

 Buff. Bull, iii, p. 114 (1876). Beth.-Bak., Can. Ent, p. 96 (1910). Dyar, 

 List. Bull. U. S. N. M., p. 45 (1902). Chapman, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.. p. 

 374 (1908). Tutt. Brit. Butt, iii, p. 74 (1909)." 



Lycacna amyntula Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, II, p. 294 

 (1852). Morris, Syn. Lep. N. Am., p. 87 (1862). Strecker, Lep. Rhop. 

 et Heter., pt. vii, p. 82 (1874); Butts, X. A. Syn. Cat., p. 92 (1878). 

 Edwards, Cat. Diurn. Lep., p. 64 (1884). Morrison, Papilio, iii, 9. 

 Wright, Papilio, iii, p. 119 (1883); Papilio, iv, p. 126 (1884). Holland, 

 Butt. Book, p. 268 (1898). Skinner, Syn. Cat, p. 59 (1898). Coquillett, 

 Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. VII, p. 211 (1899). Wright, Butt. W. Coast, 

 p. 228, f. 38sb, &c. (1905). Fletcher, Can. Ent., xxvii, p. 315 (1895). 

 Wolley-Dod. Can. Ent. xxxiii, p. 167 (1901). Elrod, Butts. Montana, 

 p. 139 (1906). 



Var. hern (irinnell, Can. Ent. xxxiii, p. 192 (1901). Dyar, List., 

 p. 45 (1902). 



Plebeius amyntula Kirby, Syn. Cat. Diurn., p. 356 (1871). 



Unlike comyntas, this species differs considerably in size from 

 different localities. The largest forms I know of are the Campo 

 (South California) race, where the males average 32 to 34 

 mm., whilst the females are rather smaller. I have a good series 

 from San Diego, where they are as a race rather smaller. The 

 Utah specimens (Spalding) are decidedly smaller. The small- 

 est race appears to come from Aweme ( Manitoba) sent me by 

 Mr. Criddle ; they average 24 mm., the only female being slight- 

 ly larger; those from High River (Alta) are rather larger, 

 from Calgary somewhat larger still, from Winnipeg again still 

 slightly larger, the largest Canadian forms being from Quami- 

 chan Lake, Vancouver, which are about the same size as those 

 from Utah. 



It is most interesting to find that this species is evidently in 

 a period of active evolution and appears to be in process of set- 

 ting up local forms. The Campo race is less bright in its blue 

 color, whilst it has a uniform blue female with broad brown 

 borders and with a marginal spotted row in the secondaries. 



