196 THE ENTOMOLOGISTS RECORD. 



at anal angle of hindwings on underside is not surmounted by a red 

 lunule, nor do the red lunules extend so far towards costal margin, 

 being often reduced to a single one preceding the blue patch. 



Regarding drtjope, Edw., I inight state that the specimens in the 

 Edwards' collection cannot be regarded as types as they bear labels not 

 coinciding with the original description. The description Avas drawn 

 up from a single ? from " Plain Co., Colorado " in the Hy. Edwards' 

 collection ; this locality was later {Tr. Avi. Ent. Soc, iii., 193) corrected 

 to " Placer Co., Calif." and the 3' description added. It is probable 

 that the two mefcatypes mentioned by Mr. Comstock as existing in the 

 Hy. Edwards' collection in the American Museum at New York are 

 really the true types. We have not examined these but are willing to 

 accept Mr. Comstock's statement that they are distinct from si/lrintis, 

 Bdv., although closely related. The specimens in the Edwards' 

 collection at Pittsburg belong to what we consider the mountain race 

 of sylviniis, i.e., the form with reduced markings on the underside. 



Tliecla saepiiiiii, Bdv. — This species is well known and needs no 

 comment ; the type shows considerable white markings to the line of 

 spots on underside, but this is merely individual, a long series before 

 me from various localities showing all degrees of variation in this 

 respect. 



TJiecla nelsoni, Bdv. — The general usage of this name proves to be 

 perfectly correct and further comment is superfluous. We can see 

 nothing that would indicate that exnleta, Hy. Edw., and iiiuiri, Hy. 

 Edw., are anything more than mere individual aberrations, the one 

 with nearly obsolete markings, the other with the markings better 

 defined than in the type. 



Inchalia iroides, Bdv. — I consider that Comstock is correct (Jo»r. 

 N. Y. Ent. Soc, xxii., 34), in not accepting Skinner's statement that 

 iroides is a synonym of the Eastern cuKjnstHs, Kirby {Ent. Nen:% xxv., 

 47) ; the two are no doubt closely allied, but I might point out that 

 augiisttis shows decidedly checkered fringes in most instances, whilst in 

 iroides, the fringes are almost unicolorous ; we are probably at least 

 dealing with racial forms. 



Incimlia eryphon, Bdv. — Closely related to niplion, Hbn. ; our series 

 of both species are not long enough to point to any one feature which 

 might be used to separate the two forms ; possibly the dentate nature 

 of the subterminal black line of underside in eri/p/ion may be distinctive, 

 but careful breeding will probably decide the question. 



Callophrys dumetorttiii, Bdv. — This is the N. American represen- 

 tative of the European nibi, Linn. In Ent. News, xxiii., 8, Messrs. 

 Haskin and Grinnell have endeavoured to point out the differences 

 between the two forms, and while, to judge from the material 

 before me, their conclusions are not entirely correct, I quite 

 concur with them in holding the name diimetonim, Bdv., separate 

 from nibi, L.; viridis, Edw., will remain as a synonym. As pointed out 

 in the article above mentioned. Middle Californian specimens are typical 

 showing the white spots on underside very distinctly ; Southern 



