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tion ! ) But, in the list, p. 547, Bronnerii is put as a true species and 

 Hippolyta as a synonymn of it — not even credited as a var. ! It strikes 

 me there is discrepancy between text and list. And Rhodope, also one 

 of the most distinct species in the fauna, is put under Bremnerii, to which 

 it has no relation, as ''} vs^x. Rhodope." The "authentically named" 

 specimens have misled the author, and, as usual, the plate would have set 

 him right. 



" The species allied to Monticola, namely, Zerene and Breninerii, 

 have puzzled me quite as much as Edwards, Strecker and others. In the 

 damper climate of Oregon * * * a darker form, Bremnerii, occurs, 

 * * * and might be considered as the Pacific coast form of Atlantis, 

 but in the specimens taken at Mt. Hood, the silver is absent, and these 

 might well be considered a northern and darker form of Zerene.'" A 

 characteristic sample of this author's hazy views of species ! In the first 

 place, I will say, that Edwards is not and has not been puzzled by the 

 species in question. In the next place, that Bremnerii is not at all like 

 Atlantis. In the third place, I had long suites of the Mt. Hood speci- 

 mens from Morrison, receiving by pre-contract every variety and every 

 species taken, and no Bremnerii was without silver. Nor in the 

 many examples I have seen from Oregon and Vancouver, have I seen 

 one that was not as fully silvered as Cybele. In the fourth place, Mr. 

 Elwes has never seen a Brefnnerii without silver. Doubtless, he is talk- 

 ing of Zerene. And in the last place, notwithstanding all his bewilder- 

 ment and error of determination, he actually puts in the list Monticola, 

 Bremnerii and Zerene, as three of his fifteen true species ! 



A. Behrensii is put under Monticola as " ? var.," with this funny 

 comment : " ? trans, ad Monticola, vel. ad Bremnerii, nomen vix con- 

 servandum." Now, Behrensii resembles neither ; it is one of the rarest 

 of our species so far, and in all these years I have seen but four examples 

 of it. I do not believe the author ever saw one. Here again the plates 

 could have enlightened him. 



So much for ignorance. There is another class of species, differing 

 radically in colour, size, form, and in the shape and number of the silver 

 spots, which, to our author's eye, look all alike. " A. Leto is a species 

 which, though undoubtedly nearly allied to Cybele, is fully as distinct 

 from it as Nokomis, and may be regarded as its Pacific Coast form in the 



