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relied on by Mr. Grinnell are the width of the border, the extra 

 heaviness of the under side pattern, the possession of only two 

 red crescents instead of five, and the size together with the 

 tails. Now in the type specimen the width of the border in the 

 male is a full half millimeter, and the type itself possesses but 

 two red crescents. In the specimens before me the heaviness 

 of the under side pattern differs extraordinarily, as does also 

 the number of red crescents, and as I have already said, I have 

 females with quite narrow black borders to their wings. The 

 only point that I can find is that the four specimens from which 

 the description was taken (obtained at Cochise County, Ari- 

 zona) were smaller than usual. Except for this I could match 

 the description from several other localities. I have passed 

 through the "lumping stage" long ago and am perhaps given 

 to split finely at times, but I do not think I should have risked 

 describing this on the slender and exceedingly variable dif- 

 ferences relied on by the author. They are, I think, insufficient 

 for an aberration. 



Everes monica Reakirt and tijua Reakirt. 



Evcres monica. Dyar. List. Bull. U. S. N. M., p. 45 (1902). Tutt, Brit. 

 Butt, iii, p. 75 (1909). 



Lycaena monica Reakirt, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sc., Phil., p. 244 (1866). 

 Strecker, Lep. Rhop. and Het., p. 82, pi. 10, f. 18 (1874); Cat. Macro. 

 X. Am., p. 91 (1878). Edwards, Cat. Butt. N. Am., p. 65 (1884). 

 Skinner, N. Am. Rhop., p. 59 (1898). Strecker, Lep. Rhop. Het. Suppl., 

 p. 20 (1900). Wright, Butts. West Coast, p. 230 (1905). 



Everes tijua Tutt., Brit. Butt, iii, p. 75 (1909). 



Lycaena tijua Reakirt, Proc. Ac. N. Sc., Phil., p. 244 (1866). Wright, 

 Butt. W. Coast, p. 230 (1905). 



These are, I believe, generally accepted now as being syno- 

 nyms and it appears to me that \Y. G. \Yright is correct in 

 separating them from this group he places them between 

 arizoncnsis and isola. The insect is described as having three 

 transverse lines of spots between the cell and the termen in 

 each of the wings, and they are stated to be rows of well-de- 

 fined spots; this would separate it from comyntas or ainynfiila. 

 It does not appear to have been taken again since it was de- 

 scribed in 1866, though my friend, Mr. W. P. Comstock, tells 



