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*) According to Smith: „The tvpes of both names are ia the British 

 Museum and have been correctly applied to the same species." There is nothing 

 like the power of expressing oneself c^Trectly. 



**) Smith sajs: „The type of comis is a very bright, strongly marked 

 specimen, like typical olivacea, but so spread that the insect apj)ears more 

 plump, sborter winged and differently marked", Proc. N. M. XIV., 255. Smith 

 cites there, and copies Cat. 125, the Geol. Sarvey; but I described the epeciea 

 in Buffalo Bull., III., 85. I knew ollivac(!a well; in faet I originally indicated 

 it as new for Mr. Morrison. Comis is altogether handsomer and britrhter 

 coloured. „Rieh brownish black. Tegulae basal and subterminal Spaces whitish, 

 of various shades, slightly olive or lilac. Median space rieh brown with the 

 small oval reniform greenish white; the smaller orhicular is 'iblique Idack ringed, 

 a very little paler than the wing. Head collar and thorax blackish; collar with 

 a black line; the white tegulae also with an inner lioe, etc. 1. c. I submit this 

 description will not apply "to typical olivacea". It inay bc a vp.riety ; I hope 

 8ome conscientiou.s observer will look into the matter, How the setting of 

 the specimen could make it look „more plump, shorter winged and differently 

 marked" is, I cocfess, to me a „mystery*. 



