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with ochraccous. And Umbrosa, of the two species, is the one distin- 

 guished in both sexes by a band of distinct black points crossiiig both 

 icings. There are traces of such a band in the male C-aureum, (as 

 there are in all Graptas) but the points are less conspicuous always and 

 usually in part obsolete. In the female the traces are still fainter and 

 the points almost always obsolete. 



In the description of Umbrosa, by Mr. Lintner, these black spots are 

 spoken of as pupils of rounded spots of lighter brown. I regard the 

 "rounded spots" as no spots, but as the faintest halo about the black spots. 

 Mr. Lintner speaks of these black pupils as distinct on the fore-wings 

 in the male and fcma/c, exprcj^sly saying also that "in the female the 

 rounded spots are obsolete^ but the jyuj)ils are distinct," (the striya punc- 

 torum nigrorum^ ; and that in the female of the other species (^C-au- 

 reiini) '•'■these pupilhited spots do not appear." , 



I conclude therefore, that Umbrosa, female, Lintner, is neither more 

 nor less than the true Interrogation is, Fabricius, and that the former 

 name can rank only as a synonym. For aught that appears the male 

 was unknown to Fabricius. 



In tliis conclusion I am sustained by Godart, so far as to the fact of 

 the female of the one or the other of these species being the Interroga- 

 tionis, Fab. In Encyc. Method., IX, p. 302, 1819, he says: "Fabri- 

 cius has taken the male for C-nitrenm of Linnaeus and has made of 

 the female a separate species under the name o^ Interrogationis. And 

 he gives as synonyms C-aureum Fab. male, C-aureum Cramer, and In- 

 terrogationis Fab. female. Then as the name C-aureum was preoc- 

 cupied by Linufeus, and regarding all these forms as varieties of one 

 species, he applies to them the name Interrogationis, Fab., and says, 

 describing it, " Le dessous de male est d'un gris bois onde et varie 

 de brun ;" (i. e., C-aureum, Fab. but by no means the true male of In- 

 terrogationis Fab.) le dessous de la femelle est brun et l^g^rement 

 glac($ de vert blanchatre, surtout aux secondes ailes :" ( 9 Interrogati- 

 onis Fab.) Thus giving to the male of one species the female of the 

 other. 



On page 819, he further says of his Interrogationis % " Le dessous 

 est d'un brun noiratre ou feuille-morte plus on moins nuance de gris 

 violet." This describes a variety of C-Aureum % , which is sometimes 

 flushed with purplish. 



Boisduval and Lecontc give a badly executed figure, composed, appa- 

 rently of the upper surface of C-aureum and the under surface of 

 Interrogationis Fab. % . The shape is rather that of the latter. It 



