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Ctipido eryiinis, Bdv. — The species is quite distinct and apparently 

 rare, or at least local. I consider it will fall as a synonym of nardalifi, 

 Behr. Behr's description is short, but he fortunately states that the 

 species shows great resemblance to the European alcon : this is very 

 true of specimens before me, which I have compared with Boisduval's 

 types, and so removes most of the doubt in my mind concerning the 

 correctness of the above synonymy. I have not seen the type of 

 niaricDjia, Reakirt, recently ; it is a 9 without any blue on upperside, 

 and from my notes the name may also apply to the same species as 

 eri/iiuis, but a further study of the type will be necessary before I can 

 definitely decide this point. Of this species there are only one ^ and 

 three 9 s before me from Sonoma Co., California, but they are at once 

 separable from icarioide.s by their darker undersides with heavy rows 

 of submarginal and median black spots ; once seen the species is not 

 easily confounded with any other. 



Ciipido sae/'ioliis, Bdv. — This species and rnfescens, Bdv., present 

 certain features which are rather puzzling and which will require 

 careful study and breeding before any definite statements can be made; 

 the group may be readily known by the presence of a distinct dark 

 discal dash on upperside of forewings in the g- and small reddish sub- 

 terminal lunules near anal angle on underside of hindwings ; the <? 

 types of mf/iioliis and rufesceus are very similar, the latter being rather 

 paler both on upper- and underside and with very narrow border to 

 wings on upperside compared with that of saein'olns ; the ? s present 

 greater differences of coloration, rufesce)i>i, as the name expresses, 

 being suffused with brown, whereas saeiiiolas is darker with blue basal 

 shading. 



All the $ s before me from California, including those from high 

 altitudes, belong to the mfescem form, whereas the $ s seem closer to 

 saepiidiis : the saej)iolu!i form of the $ is before me from localities in 

 Arizona, Idaho, and Colorado, i.e., the Rocky Mountain district. In 

 my estimation we have only one species, but whether these two names 

 may be applied to geographical races, or whether they merely repre- 

 sent individual variation, is a question that will require study on the 

 part of collectors in California. As has been already stated daedalm, 

 Behr, is said to belong to this group; as Dr. Behr described the species 

 at the same time as he did aehaja, which is undoubtedly a synonymn 

 of sacpiidioi, and as he makes no mention in the short Latin diagnosis 

 of either the discal streak of primaries above or the reddish tinge to 

 submarginal lunules below, I have my doubts concerning this associa- 

 tion. Behr's description reads as follows: — " Icarioidi similis sed 

 subtus, quiB puncta in Icarioide sunt rotundissima, in Daedalo sunt 

 transverse prodncta lineaque discoidalis alarum posticarum, qu;e in 

 Icarioide deest et pro qua macula alba subtriquetra inclitat, hac in 

 specie liiiea transversa distinctissime nvjra vindicatur." The three 

 specimens of the type lot were collected m the Alpine region around 

 the head waters of the Tuolumne River, i.e., at an altitude of over 

 10,000ft. 



The above description would fit partially with either icarioides, 

 saepiolus, or plieres ; as all these names date back to 1852 it is evident 

 that daedaliis will in any case be a synonym so its exact position 

 becomes fairly unimportant. 



