Vol. XXli] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 23! 



COUAS NASTES STRECKERI Gr. Grum-Grshimailo. Mr. Henry H. Ly- 

 man has sent me the following: "I see in your supplement* a reference 

 to a species streckeri described by Grote. Has his description ever 

 been published in any American journal? If not, I wish you would get 

 the editor of the ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS to re-publish this description 

 in English, if the original description was in any other language, as I 

 know nothing of this form." Gr. is the abbreviation used for Gr. Grum- 

 Grshimailo and Mr. Lyman can't be blamed for taking it to stand for 

 Grote. The International Entomological Congress, I believe, has a 

 project on foot to adopt a uniform plan for authors' names. 



We have three specimens of Colias nastes in our collection, taken in 

 the vicinity of Laggan, Alberta, by Mr. Thomas E. Bean. Mr. Bean 

 also supplied Strecker with the material that found its way to Europe. 

 I have compared our Canadian nastes with specimens from Europe and 

 do not find any difference. In my opinion they do not deserve even a 

 varietal name. HENRY SKINNER, M.D. 



[The original description by Gr. Grum-Grshimailo was published in 

 Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae 29,290, 1895, and is as follows : 



"Colias Nastes var. Streckeri. 



Forma ad. Col. cocandicam transitum efficiens. 



Alae $ 9. virescenti-sulphureae ; anticarum limbo externo latiore, 

 disco in nervis rarius nigrescenti-consperso ; posticarum macula dis- 

 cocellulari supra lurida, subtus permagna ad marginem externum ut 

 in Col. cogene et cocandica bidentata rufa. 



Specimen unum hujus varietatis sub nomine 'Colias beliriif a 

 lepidopterologo germanico D-re O. Staudinger anno 1891, quattuor 

 specimina, in provincia Alberta ad Laggan collecta, a lepidopterologc 

 americano Dom. H. Strecker, cujus in honorem hanc forman nomin- 

 avi, accepi." 



This may be rendered into English as follows : 



Colias nastes var. streckeri. A form transitional to C. cocandica. 

 Wings $ $ greenish-sulphur; external margin of the primaries wider, 

 veins in the disc more thinly sprinkled with blackish; discocellular 

 spot of the secondaries lurid above, below very large at the external 

 margin bidentate reddish as in C. eogene and cocandica. 



I received one specimen of this variety under the name "Col:as 

 behriif" from the German lepidopterologist, Dr. O. Staudinger in 1891, 

 and four specimens, collected at Laggan in the province of Alberta, 

 from the American lepidopterologist, Mr. H. Strecker, in whose honor 

 I have named this form.] 



*A Synonymic Catl. North Am. Rhop. Suppl. No. i. Publ. by Amer- 

 ican Entomological Society. 



