198 THE entomologist's record. 



Ciipido heteronea, Bdv. — This species has presented no difficulty ; 

 the peculiar purplish reflection on upperside is quite characteristic. 



Ciipido icanoidea, Bdv. — The species is apparently common all 

 through the higher regions of California and is very variable on the 

 underside ; the type shows the black dots distinct, white ringed, the 

 submarginal ones preceded by slight white arrow-like dashes ; many 

 specimens before me lack these dashes and others again show a 

 tendency towards obsolescence of the black markings on secondaries, 

 the dots being largely white with minute black centres, and in some 

 instances almost all traces of these may be lost, on the primaries the 

 black spots are usually considerably larger than on secondaries and 

 show less tendency towards obsolescence. The 9 s usually show a 

 considerable amount of blue suffusion on upperside and traces of 

 reddish marginal band near anal angle of secondaries. 



I consider fidla, Edw., a synonym of this species ; it was described 

 from one ^ and one ? from California, obtained from Dr. Behr and the 

 types are not in the Edwards' Collection at Pittsburg; the series there 

 contains specimens from California, Utah and Colorado, all labelled 

 ftdla in Edwards' handwriting, and specimens before me which I have 

 compared with Edwards' series are certainly icdriitides, Bdv. ; Ujcea, 

 Edw., from Colorado, is so close that it would be hard to point to any 

 definite point of distinction as both forms vary in the same manner ; 

 it will do no harm, however, to hold the name for Colorado specimens. 

 Peiiibi)ut, Edw., at present listed as a synonym, I do not know ; the 

 types should be in the Hy. Edw. Collection. The remaining names 

 in the synonymy of icarioidefi are apparently misplaced ; pardaUx, 

 Behr, eri/iinis, Bdv., and, I think, inaricopa, Reak., all apply to a species 

 distinct from icarioides, which I will deal with later ; daedaliis, Behr, 

 is stated by Mr. Comstock to be close to saepioltta, Bdv., it is thus 

 placed in the Barnes' Collection, but on what grounds I know not ; 

 Behr's types were all destroyed in the San Francisco fire and his 

 short Latin diagnosis is insufficient to determine the species ; how- 

 ever, it IS possible that some of the Eastern collections contain 

 material that has been identified by Dr. Behr, which has led to the 

 above association. I can see nothing which would warrant a 

 separation of phileros, Bdv., from icarioides ; Dr. Boisduval was of the 

 opinion, when he described phileros, that it was merely a local race of 

 icarioides, but I fail to see on what grounds even this supposition 

 could be based ; long series before me from various Californian 

 localities show quite as much affinity to one as to the other, and 

 specimens can be picked out of one series to exactly match either type. 

 Much careful study is still necessary to determine the local and racial 

 variations of this puzzling species, but for the present we offer the 

 following synonymy based on the above remarks : — 



icarioides, Bdv., 1852 ... ... Calif. 



phileros, Bdv., 1869. 



fiUla, Edw., 1870. 



fnliqinosa, Stkr. (nec Edw.), 1874. 



niintha, Edw. (?), 1870. 



var. hjcea, Edw., 1861 ... Colorado. 



var. pemhiua, Edw., 1862 ... Manitoba and N.W. Canada. 



