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As to tlie first character, the brown patch behind the stigma ; it is 

 present in my type male, but in the other males it is wanting; in 3 there 

 is a slight duskiness behind the stigma ; in 3 there is nothing even of this. 

 Vet on the under side these males all agree with the type in color and in 

 the jieculiarities of the band of spots on secondaries. 



2nd. The female has nothing whatever of the transparency mentioned. 

 These two jtatches or spots are precisely like the two above them and 

 against the cell, so far as color is concerned, all being simply fulvous. 

 Mr. Scudder continues : " Beneath, a silvery white (male) or pale (female) 

 slender belt of small quadrate spots, similar to that of P. Comma, bent at 

 a little less than a right angle, the portion at right angle to the inner bor- 

 der straight and continuous, the other portion sometimes broken, some- 

 times continuous and straight. This species has only been taken, and 

 rarely, in California." My type male was from Vancouver's Island, the 

 female from California. The other males are from Wash. Terr., Brit. Col. 

 Arizona. 



It is of the female mentioned that Dr. Speyer says it "■ entirely 

 resembles an average small Comma female, with this difference, that the 

 fringes are loispottcd, and that the spot in cellnle y is 7t.'antini:;." But as 

 Mr. Scudder's figure shows the spot, this difference Dr. Speyer regards as 

 accidental, and continues : •' If I had taken this specimen here, I would 

 have regarded it as without doubt an unimportant variety of Comma. 

 Even the differences of the male do not appear to me of sufficient im- 

 portance to regard this Sy/rurnoii/es ( Colundua) as anything more than a 

 local form of Comma." 



Dr. Speyer sent me a typical male and female Comma. Of the male, 

 the color of under side of hind wings and apex of fore wings is greenish- 

 yellow. Every one of my Colundua males and the female (which Dr. 

 Speyer notices) lacks the spot in cellule 7, which is present in l)()th these 

 Comma. This spot is ^jresent in Mr. Scudder's figure of the female (fig. 

 22), but not of the male (fig. 23), and I apprehend that it is in the female 

 figure by a mistake on the part of the lithographic artist, and was over- 

 looked by Mr. Scudder. None of my males are of the color of Comma 

 on under side, all being brown, not green, and on all, the spots at the 

 angle of the band are suddenly reduced, and are small : whereas in the 

 Comma they are large. The band in each of these forms has a distinct 

 character of its own. The under side of the female Colundua is nearer 

 to the female Comma, but more yellow, less green ; the spots are contlu- 



