306 AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 



It Is found in British America, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Mon- 

 tana, Nevada, California. Fresh specimens bear dates as follows: 

 April 80th, June loth, July 5th, August 4th. 



C. brenda Edw., Trans. Am. Km. Soc, 2, H75, 1868. 



" Male : — Expands 1.4 inch. Upper side light buff, immaculate. Under side a 

 shade more yellow; primaries have a faint, transverse, reddish line beyond the 

 cell, commencing at subcostal, thence straight to upper median, after which it is 

 tortuous and disappears near lower median. Secondaries have a similar line 

 angular to end of cell thence tortuous to abdominal margin; primaries have a 

 large subapical round black spot and a point in lower median interspace : second- 

 aries have a submarginal row more or less complete of small spots or points. 

 Body and legs light buff; antennas buff, club pale ferruginous. 



''Female: — Expands 1.5 inch. Upper side like male; beneath, the apex of pri- 

 maries and space within the discal lines much obscured by grey ; subapical spot 

 large, enclosing a white point; spots on secondaries partly wanting." 



Var. a, Male. — The under side showing no trace of spots except the subapical, 

 which is faint. 



"From Los Angeles, Cala., 2 $ $ , 1 9. Collection of Tryon 

 Reakirt, Esq." 



This is only a much spotted ochracea. If we give names to all 

 the variations of ochracea we would have six names for the species. 

 I would call attention to the unvarying character of the primaries 

 below with the one ocellus. 



Tiphon var. laidion Borkh. Eur. Schmett., 1, 91. 29, t. 1, f. 5, 6, 1788. 



Dr. Buckell, exhibiting as a visitor, showed specimens of Cceno 

 nympha inomata, on which he read the following notes: 



" In the paper on < 'cenonympha tiphon, which I read here in 

 October, 1895 (Ent. Rec, vol. 7, pp. 100-107), I alluded to the 

 American butterfly, described by W. H. Edwards, under the mime 

 C. inomata, which he and Scudder considered to be a distinct spe- 

 cies, but which the late Jenner Weir looked upon only as a variety 

 of C. tiphon. My paper was read by Mr James Fletcher., of 

 ( Htawa, the entomologist to the Dominion of Canada, and he very 

 kindly sent me the five specimens of what, as he writes 'we here 

 call C. inomata,' which had been taken in the Northwest during the 

 Summer of 1895, and which I exhibit this evening. In the right- 

 hand column I have placed some specimens of the Scotch form of 

 < '. tiphon var. laidion, and may just remind you that the character- 

 istic mark of this form is the obsolescent condition of the ocellated 

 spots on the under side of the hind wing. Comparing the two 

 insects, the American specimens have a brighter coloration on the 

 upper surface, and the hind wings are very little, if at all, darker 



