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4. All the remaining species (Nos. 20-36)''' properly belong to Pam- 

 phila. Only Viator (20, 21) differs from the type of the genus somewhat 

 in the outline of the wings ; the secondaries are broader and their border 

 seems to be somewhat wavy. Also the last joint of the palpi is longer 

 than usual. This species will necessarily stand at the beginning or at the 

 end. As for the rest, I can pronounce no decision as to the most judicious 

 order of succession of the species, as I possess no American Pamphilas, 

 having handed my earlier collection over to Dr. Staudinger. 



NOTES ON DR. SPEYER'S PAPER. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



1. Contrary to my expectation, the Asiatic forms of the Comma group 

 are not so near the American as are the European. Dr. Speyer tells us that 

 the former vary from typical Comma in a different direction from the 

 latter. If the American are derived from the European, or the reverse, the 

 Asiatic ought to lie between the two, apparently. 



2. I am satisfied that Juba should rank as a species. Dr. Speyer 

 gives sufficient reasons for this, and examination of many examples con- 

 firm this view. I have a beautiful variety of ////;a (male) sent me by 

 Prof. Snow, and taken by him at Los Vegas, N. M., in 1882. The upper 

 side is darker — more fuscous and less fulvous — than any other example I 

 have seen, and secondaries beneath and the apical area of primaries are 

 densely dusted with golden-green ; the spots white and somewhat smaller 

 than in the tyi)e. I call this var. Viridis. 



3. As to Manitoba, Colorado and Nevada, Dr. Speyer points out that 

 in these three forms the shape and arrangement of the spots on hind wings 

 are not the same as in the typical Comma of Europe. So far as I can 

 discover, on examining a considerable series of each of these forms, from 

 divers localities, the differences are constant. In the matter of the spotted 

 fringes spoken of, Dr. Speyer says these are always found in Comma. In 

 the American forms they are sometimes present, but do not appear in all 



Viator, Byssits, Pittacus, Deva, Ocola, Etifala, Panoquin, Fusca, Ncrea, Ph^lace, 



