Clje Cauaiian Entomologist, 



VOL. XV. LONDON, ONT.. AUGUST, 1883. No. 8 



To titc Ei/itor of the Can. lint.  



Dear Sir, — 1 .send you some remarks by Dr. A. Si)eyer upon certain 

 forms and species of Pamphila whicli I recently submitted to him. I had 

 especially called Dr. Speyer's attention to the Comma group, and as will 

 be seen, he has very kindly compared them with Comma and its varieties, 

 and gives his views at length. I have italicised certain portions of the 

 paper, to which I desire to call particular attention ; and have appended 

 some notes of m}' own, written after carefully considering the views of 

 Dr. Speyer, and a re-study of the forms spoken of. The excellent trans- 

 lation of Dr. Speyer's paper, was made by Chas. E. Aaron, A. M., of Phila- 

 delphia, at the instance of his son, Mr. E. M. Aaron, Curator of the Am. 

 Ent. Soc. . Yours truly, 



Coalburgh, W. Va., ist July. 1883. ^- H. Edwards. 



REMARKS ON THE HESPERID.E: SENT TO ME BY MR. W. 

 H. EDWARDS. OF COALBURGH, W. VA., n\ JAN., 1883. 



Li order to be able to decide witli some degree of certainty the 

 question whether Pamphila Nevada., Alaiiitoba, Colorado, Juha and 

 Sylvanoicks (Columbia), proposed by Mr. Scudder as distinct species, 

 are, together or separately, specifically different from the European P. 

 Comma L., there would be need of a much larger suite of well preserved 

 specimens of these forms than have been placed at my command ; and 

 perhaps even such a suite would not have sufficed to establish a conclu- 

 sion, but observation in the field alone would justify a final decision. 

 AVhat I have to say upon the subject, on the basis of the inadequate 

 material on hand, is as follows : ' 



It was my especial wish, in addition to the large number of specimens 

 at my command of the typical P. Comma of Middle Europe, and of its 



