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of tiirciciis ; but Stal, the most careful and accurate systematist, with the 

 material before him, regarded them as distinct species. Mr. Barber, with 

 blackboard drawings to illustrate his remarks, gave the characters by which 

 the species are separable and the distribution of each. 



L. tnrciciis Fab. has the red mark on the vertex forked anteriorly, the 

 clavus before the middle red, the membrane black with its edge and surface 

 concolorous. It was described from New York, but is apparently rare in 

 this vicinity. Stal had material from Illinois, Montandon from Pennsylvania, 

 Missouri and Colorado. About Washington, D. C, Mr. Banks has taken it on 

 Ceanothus (New Jersey Tea) and Mr. Engelhardt has a specimen from Long 

 Island. 



L. Kalmii Stal has the red mark on the vertex usually quadrate, the clavus 

 black and the membrane more or less broadly banded with white and with or 

 without a white discal spot. It varies considerably in its markings, and 

 Stal lists var. A, transverse red band of pronotum entire, white discal spot 

 of membrane distinct. Var. B, transverse red band of pronotum divided into 

 three spots, white discal spot of membrane distinct. Var. C, membrane black 

 without discal white spot or prominent white border. Var. vtelanoderiuus 

 Mont, described in 1893 from St. Louis, Mo., is more melanic than the above. 

 The varieties A and B are western : var. C is common in sununer on 

 milkweed throughout the east and is often confused with the preceding. 



L. rcclivatns Say clavus red, behind black or marked with black, membrane 

 narrowly bordered with white, with or without discal white spot and two 

 small triangidar white spots at base, hemelytra ornamented in the basal 

 interior angle with a small black spot. Described from Missouri Territory, 

 which Mr. Barber showed by map, is not synonymous with our present state 

 of that name, and known from southwestern states and Mexico. Var. enotus 

 Say lacks the discal white spot of membrane. 



L. costalis H. S. seems to differ mainly in the reduction of the size of the 

 black spot on the costal part of the hemelytra. It is closely related to 

 reclivatus and doubtfully recognized in specimens from Arizona by Mr. 

 Van Duzee. 



Mr. Barber exhibited specimens of the species referred to. 



Mr. Comstock spoke " On some Lyccrnidcr from New Mexico and Old 

 Mexico " and said that material collected by John Woodgate at Jemez Springs, 

 Sandoval Co., New Mexico, contained many interesting species, contrasting 

 sharply with the fauna of Fort Wingate, where this collector was formerly 

 located. He exhibited Thecla itys. calanns and arota. taken at the Jemez 

 Springs locality. He also spoke of species taken in Central Mexico at Cuer- 

 navaca, Everes comyntes, Herniargus hanno, to the wide range of the former 

 and the differences between the latter and species described in the Biologia. 

 Mr. Comstock also spoke of the variations in these and other species of 

 Lycccnidce and exhibited one of his boxes showing a series of males both 

 upper and under side, with females also showing upper and under side 

 arranged below. Apart from the variation series he showed homotypes, /. e., 



