SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 51 



NOTES. 



In preparing the Synopsis manuscript names have been omitted and names 

 of species that have been erroneously credited to the North American fauna. As 

 respects tlie genera, I have aimed at giving those with which our lepidopterists have 

 now for several years been familiar. An exception was necessary in case of the 

 Hesperidse, a family hitherto greatly neglected and in which material had accumu- 

 lated to a vast extent, rendering revision imperative. Mr. Scudder has for some 

 years been engaged in this work, and his recently imblished results I have large- 

 ly followed. 



Pages 1 to 6, 10, 11 and 19, have been reprinted with corrections since their 

 original issue. 



Papilio Aliaska. — I have substituted this name for MacJiaon, considerins: the 

 American insect to be sufficiently distinct from the European to entitle it to a sjje- 

 cific name, as pointed out by Mr. Hcudder. 



Papilio Calverleyii. — The individual described by Mr. Grote was a male 

 and seemed to be a variety of Astcrias, rather because of its similarity of shape, 

 and from its having been taken where Asterim was a common species, and from 

 the fact that in so well worked a district as Western Long Island nothing ap- 

 proaching it had before been seen. It was regarded as one of those extreme vari- 

 ations occasionally seen among the butterflies. I have examined the fine female 

 taken by Mr. Mead, high up the St. John's River, Florida, and certainly cannot 

 undertake to pronounce it a variety. It is as distinct in all resjiects except in shajje 

 from Adcrias as is Turnus. If it is a mere variety, no better illustration of the 

 origin of a sjiecies is needed. It is not imjjrobable that this butterlly is connnon 

 enough in southern Florida, which is a terra incognita to lej^idoiiterists. That an 

 individual should have been found on Long Island is less remarkable when we 

 consider how many strictly southern insects and birds have been found there 

 while unknown upon the adjoining main land. 



Thecla Liparops. — By reference to the original unjm'olished drawings of 

 Abbot, in the British Museum, Mr. Scudder has ascertained that this species was 

 intended by Boisduval and Leconte to represent the butterfly described by Harris 

 as Strigosa. How utterly unlike the latter as delineated in this Volume a glance 

 will show. On comparing the descrijjtion in Boisduval and Leconte with the 

 insect, and then with their plate, it is evident that the description was not drawn 

 from the former, but from the plate, which is so wretched an attempt at copying 



