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Scudder's figures of Manitoba, one of which, fig. lo, does not differ in 

 any respect from many forms of European Coiiuita in the character of the 

 rows of spots, while the remaining figures (and still more decidedly my 

 two natural specimens) deviate therefrom. \Ve also conclude from Scud- 

 der's descriptions that in this ijoint Afaitito/ni can scarcely, if at all, be 

 separated from Conniia by any constant difference. 



Finally, concerning the two specimens numbered i8 and 19, and 

 labeled Syhuinoidcs,^ I have first to remark that they, especially the 

 female, do not agree well with Scudder's figures and descriptions. Accord- 

 ing to the latter, " two transparent spots" are said to be present in the 

 feniale on the primaries, to which Scudder gives especial prominence as a 

 characteristic feature (p. 352, plate x., fig. 21). In my female specimen 

 (which is cpiite perfect) no transparent spots are to be seen, but the spots 

 have exactly the color and form of those in Coiiniia. In fact this female 

 entirely resembles an a-rerage small Comma female, witli this difference, 

 that the fringes are unspotted, and that the spot in cellnle 7 on the under 

 side of secondaries is 7oa/iting. The latter difference is probably only an 

 accidental one, as Scudder's figure shows this spot. If I had taken- this 

 specimen here, I would have regarded it as without doubt an unimportant 

 variety of Comma, and I am iiiclined to believe that specimens may be 

 found on \'ancouver Island which do not differ from the female of typical 

 Comma. Even the differences of the male do not appear to me of suffi- 

 cient importance to make it possible to regard this Sylvanoides as anything 

 more than a local form of Comma. 



I know Eoisduval's description of his Hesperia Sylvanoides only from 

 Morris's translation (Synop. Lepidop. N. Am. 1862, p. 107). Judging 

 from this I should be much inclined to doubt tliat Sylvanoides Bdv. and 

 the earlier Colund'ia of Scudder are the same species. Had Koisduval 

 himself had such specimens as those now under discussion, he would 

 probably not have regarded them as specifically different from Comma, 

 but if he had done so, he would certainly have likened them, not to 

 Sylvanus, which they resemble verv slightly, but to* Comma. Not one 

 feature in the description of the malt butterfly can be ap])lied to Scudder's 

 species. 



The result of my comparisons may be thus summed up, namely : that 

 among the examples of Scudder s four species transmi/ted to me, not one 



* i. e. Sylvattoidci Sc, but not of llois. Tlie latter — Soiiora Sc. — W. II. E. 



