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paper was written, had also obtained from the same source uncolored 

 tracings of both Herse and Lycaon, which lie permitted me to see. Mr. 

 Butler had himself examined the drawings and wrote me, he still regardmg 

 them as representing two sexes of one species : " It is certainly not 

 Celiis, which I know well." Now Mr. Butler's testimony was of itself 

 sufficient to settle this matter. 



I first saw the tracings spoken of through Mr. Riley, and in my Part 

 3, I say : " I entertain not a doubt that they were meant to represent 

 Idyj'a, or a species allied to that." There are certain well marked peculi- 

 arities in the arrangement of the spots in Idyj'a to be found roughly done 

 in the drawings, and herein Idyj'a differs from either of our two species. 

 I copied Fabricius' description of Lycaon (drawn up from Jones), and 

 compared it line for line with the appearance of Celtis, and made it plain 

 that the description of one could not apply to, and could not have been 

 meant for, the other, whether as to coloring or markings. 



When I wrote the text of Clyfo7i, Part 5, a year later, I had Prof. 

 Westwood's colored copies of Herse before me, and I showed that Fabri- 

 cius' description of Herse could not possibly relate to Clyton. I gave 

 wood cuts of the under sides of Herse and Idyja (a West India species 

 whose nearest allies are to be found in tropical America), and the resem- 

 blance in the arrangement of the spots between these two was as unmis- 

 takable as was the difference between either and Clyton or Celtis. If 

 Jones did not have Idyja before him he certainly had a species of same 

 sub-group. But what that species was it is impossible to say. Surely it is 

 quite time that Fabricius' names for Jones' figures should drop into their 

 original obscurity. Nevertheless here they stand in Mr. Scudder's 

 " Butterflies," 1881, as if their claims were established, or had never been 

 denied, and the names properly belonging to the species are put down as 

 synonyms ! 



14. On CoLiAS Christina Edw. 



In Mr. Strecker's Catalogue, p. 81, Colias Christina, a well marked 

 orange species, figured in Vol. i, But. N. A., is set down as a var. of C 

 Pelidne Bd., a yellow species which I should say was at a considerable 

 distance in a series ; and in various other publications Mr. Strecker has 

 expatiated on this supposed discovery. Pelidne, with its var. Christifia, 

 stands as No. 54 in his series. Colias Occidentalis Sc. is quite as strangely 

 put down as a var. of C. Philodice, a species for which it has but a slight 



