40ft TUK CAKAUIAN EN Tti MO LOU I ST. 



of aima, that 'only one male and one female known. " \)x. Uarnes, Ent. 

 News, |>. 329, 1900, writes that "examples from Durango, Colo., do not 

 difTer from those taken in Utah and Arizona.*'^ 



Me/itaa/ulvia Edwards, — Originally published in the Trans. Amer. 

 Em. Soc, Vol. Ill, p. 191, 1879, and is known to occur in Texas, New 

 Mexico and Colorado. Holland, PI. X\'I, fig. 17, gives a good represen- 

 tation of the ^ , but no reference is made to fulvia in the text. Dr. 

 Skinner, Suppl. Cat., p. 9, 1904, remarks that "fulvia and alma are 

 probably identical." This is certainly correct. Dr. Dyar, Ru. 52, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., makesy/z/z'/a a synonym oi theona Mcnetries, but to which it 

 bears little affinity, M^-*?/;*! being identical with ///^•/■Ai Edwards { = bollti 



Edwards), and has priority. I have seen in the collection of Mr. Victor 

 L. Clemence quite an extensive series of alma, taken in the Chiricahua 

 Mountains of Cochise County, .Arizona, and during the past season 1 look 

 a few specimens in the Huachuia Mountams of the same county. Great 

 variation is disjjlayed as to the coloiation, in some the ground colour 

 being bright fulvous, and from this it varies to black. Slrecker's types 

 were unfortunately of the fulvous t)'])e. 



Melitita cyneas (iodmaii and Salvin. — Biol. Cent. .Amer., Rhop., Vol. 

 I, p. 191, 1882. Described from Oaxaca, Mexico, and in the supplement, 

 p. 677, 1900, Vol. 2, is reported further from Durango City, I'inal, Puebia, 

 and from Pinos Altos, in Chihuahua. The authors remark that *' this 

 species and the next belong to a group of Phyciodes, represented in North 

 America by /'. leanira (Feld ) and by /'. fulvia (Kdw.), one of the dis- 

 tinguishing characters of which is a dark band across the secondaries, in 

 which is a series of yellow spots." 'I'he figures of cyneas on PI. XXI, 

 figs. 10, II, show that it is absolutely identical with alma. M. cynisca 

 (lodman and Salvin is also very probably another synonym of <i/w<i. Dr. 

 Skinner, Sup|)l. Cat., p. 9, 1904, lists cyneas from Arizona, and Wright 

 figures a female from the Huachuca Mountains. 



The present synon)my is then as follows . 



Melittta alma Strc-cker. 

 syn. fulvia Edwards. 



cyneas Codman and Salvin. 

 Disi. Ciiiioiiua, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorad.) and Mexico. 

 Mailed December isth, iqio. 



