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nicety. Of outside material allied to the local form I have in my 

 collection altogether two dozen specimens received from various 

 localities and collectors under the several names of halcyone, 

 coronis, chit one, platina and snydcri. Specimens under the last 

 name resemble my No. 8 less than any of the rest. I do not 

 vouch for the correctness of the names, and as localities are per- 

 haps safer than names in speaking of some allied forms of 

 .Irgynnis I will give them in making comparisons. A 9 

 from "Oslar, Col." labeled halcyone is more lightly marked and 

 shaded above, and has buff band beneath, narrower and darker 

 than any Calgary specimen and marginal row of spots on sec- 

 ondaries smaller. Coronis from Glenwood Springs, Col., comes 

 nearer, but like halcyone from Oslar differs in being more 

 lightly marked and shaded above. Chitone from Yellow- 

 stone Park, Wyo., six to seven thousand feet, is very slightly 

 paler above than my palest, but otherwise I can match it exactly. 

 There remain nine specimens received as platina. These I have 

 divided in two series, which if not species are at least well 

 marked local races. The first series consists of two males from 

 Beaver Canyon. Idaho, and Stockton, Utah, and a female from 

 Soldier Canyon, Tooele Co., Utah. The first of these is one of 

 the type localities of platina, comes from Dr. Barnes and agrees 

 with the description. This series differs from the Calgary 

 species in being slightly paler in all the details of color and 

 shading, but more distinctly in having rather larger silver spots 

 and a wider, buff band. The other series of four males and two 

 females are from the mountains of Colorado above 8,000 feet 

 bearing labels "Pinnacle," "Gore's Range" and "Williams River 

 Range." They are darker and more heavily black-marked and 

 shaded above, and having the spots smaller and buff band nar- 

 rower than the other series, fit the Calgary species exactly ex- 

 cept for size which is very slightly smaller in the males, with the 

 females relatively smaller still. 



LINDSAY SYMINGTON of Looe, Cornwall, England, wishes to corre- 

 spond with a collector wanting British Lepidoptera, with the idea of ex- 

 changing British for American species. Specimens set or papered. Full 

 data and names; 



