1897.] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 117 



Had I seen but one of this species never would I have ventured 

 to describe it as new, but having thirty examples under my eyes 

 all as like as a row of peas in a pod I felt no hesitation; it is one 

 of those that the most untutored would distinguish at a glance 

 from any of the other species; with it was taken numbers of C. 

 micronymp/ia, C. arnica, C. muliercnla and a curious variety of 

 C. ilia. 



In the February number "Can. Ent." (vol. xxix), p. 39, the 

 Argynnis described by W. H. Edwards in "Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. v, p. 204, under the name of carpenterii has again been 

 re-christened as charlottii. The synonymy of this insect now 

 stands thusly: 



Argynnis leto Behr. , Cal. Acad. 



carpenterii W '. H. Edwards, Proc. Am. Ent. Soc. 

 charlottii W. Barnes, Can. Ent. 



The last name comes close to that of charlotta given by Haworth 

 in Lep. Brit. 1803, to a Melanotic aberrant of A. aglaija, but all 

 this matters little as the poor thing, despite all the accumulated 

 rubbish, will still remain A. cybele var. leto. 



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SOME NOTES AND DESCIPTIONS OF NEW LEPTID/E. 



By C. W. JOHNSON. 



In studying the species of the genus Dialysis my attention was 

 called to the incongruity that exists in the venation of D. elon- 

 gata and D. rufithorax Say. It will no doubt be of interest to 

 show more fully the remarkable variation in the venation of the 

 wings referred to by Prof. C. H. Tyler Townsend (Proc. Wash. 

 Ent. Soc. ii, 118) and by Dr. Williston (Kan. Univ. Quarterly, 

 iii, 263). D. elongata (fig. i) has four posterior cells, but there 



is usually a slight angle to the discal 

 cell, and in one specimen (on one 

 wing) a stump that suggests the 

 origin or remains of the missing vein. 

 Fig. i. In one specimen ( ), on one wing 



only, there is a cross-vein that divides the discal cell into two 

 unequal parts (this vein is indicated by a dotted line). In another 

 specimen (on one wing) the first and second branches of the fifth 

 longitudinal vein are not separated by a cross-vein, but united 



