88 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



there. " The winds all the year are from the Pacific ; the desert is 20 

 miles away, across 5,500 feet of a mountain range." 



^'A. Adiante is a form wliich both Strecker and Edwards consider dis- 

 tinct. On the coast of Calif , according to Strecker's information, it is 

 now extinct, and all the male specimens (I Jiave seen no females) in Mr. 

 Godman's and my collection were evidently taken many years ago. I 

 should certainly be inclined to set it down as a variety of one of these 

 species," /. e. Zerene or Monticola. " The opinions held twenty-five 

 years ago, when Dr. Behr was an active collector, are not conclusive." 

 In the list, under the true species Zerene, is set : " .? Hydaspe BdvL; 

 .? Ircjie Bdvl; 7 Rupestris Behr.; .? Adiante Bdvl." Now Hydaspe is 

 really a var. of Zerene. I have Boisduval's types of both. Rupestris is 

 in no way related to Zerene, and in both these cases the author is unable 

 to pronounce definitely. He does not know, confessedly, what they are ; 

 nor whether Adiante is a var. or not. In the text, he says he thinks it is 

 a var. of either Zerene or Monticola. Well, which ? Knowing nothing 

 at all, he puts it as a ? var. of Zerene. Perhaps if one could cut down the 

 wings of Zerene or Monticola, trim the edges a little, change the hue of 

 the upper side, reduce to streaks all the heavy black markings or obliter- 

 ate half of them, wipe out all the marks and spots of the under side, one 

 could manufacture an Adiante that would seem the real article to the 

 reviser of the Argynnides. For myself I am content with the species as 

 nature made it. But this is the process by which 42 species are cut down 

 to 15. 



I could have shown Mr. Elwes recent specimens of Adiante of both 

 sexes, and told him where to seek it. In 1889, a correspondent obtained 

 eggs of it for me. 



In the list, p. 545, we have under the head of true species Aphrodite 

 Fabr.j '■'■'i vzx. Alcestis : Cipris" (put as a mere synonymn of Alcestis), 

 " ? Aphrodite Mead " (which is neither more nor less than what, thirteen 

 years after Mead's mention, was separated as Ctpris.) But the gem of 

 the group is put thus : " var. vel bona sp. Nausicaa Edw." It is either 

 a var. or a good species, the author does not know which, but all the 

 same it stands under Aphrodite, and another species is disposed of If 

 the author knows nothing, why not say nothing ! 



List, p. 541, " Bellona Fab.; var. Epithore Bdvl.; the fore-wings less 



