I5O ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [April, '13 



I have a large series especially of females. There is a tendency 

 in the males also to develop the marginal spotted row, though it 

 is much less prominent than in the other sex ; this is also notice- 

 able in Portola specimens. There is no special feature in the 

 under side that is not applicable elsewhere. The San Diego 

 males are decidedly deeper in tone of color. I have only three 

 females from this locality, which are similar though perhaps 

 brighter than the Ca'mpo form. The Utah race is certainly 

 brighter in its blue than either of the Californians, whilst the 

 females are also decidedly brighter, but the blue suffusion is 

 smaller in area and the ground color is much blacker; on the 

 under side also there is a difference, the spotting is less distinct, 

 with perhaps rather more obsolescence. With one exception 

 there is little difference in the upper side color in Canadian male 

 specimens ; the females are, however, dimorphic, viz., brown 

 and suffused with blue. Those from Manitoba that I possess 

 have a limited suffusion of bright blue, the ground color being 

 almost black. I have four largish specimens from Fort W- , 

 Winnipeg (I have been quite unable to obtain the name of Fort 

 W- -) , which are blackish brown with a very slight and spare 

 suffusion of dark blue scales only visible in a good light. Cal- 

 gary specimens are similar, but the brown is less dark, whilst 

 from Quamichan Lake, Vancouver, I have entirely brown fe- 

 males, also some with a very slight suffusion of dark blue scales. 

 The under side of all these specimens differs slightly from those 

 obtaining in the States ; in all the spots are greatly reduced in 

 size, and in a considerable number the spots in the secondaries 

 are almost obsolete, in some quite obsolete. The obsoletion be- 

 gins, as in comyntas, with the spot below the second costal spot, 

 and with the fourth of the curved row, but it goes beyond this 

 also, for on the other side of the Rockies and in Vancouver the 

 prevalent form seems to be that with more or less spotless 

 under side so far as the secondaries are concerned. 



The one exception as to upper side color that I have already 

 referred to calls for remark in more ways than one. Criddle's 

 specimens from Aweme, Manitoba, are those in question ; 

 they are similar to the European coretas in color, that is, they 



