52 SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMEEICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



Abbot that nothing less direct than Mr. Scudder's statement would establish the 

 fact that it was intended to be a copy. For forty years the species has puzzled 

 lepidopterists, nothing like that plate having been seen in nature. It seems to me 

 beyond doubt in such case that no right can attach to the description or plate in 

 Boisduval and Leconte, and that the name given by Harris should be retained. 



Phyciodes Ismeeia. — The case of this species is parallel to that of Liparops, 

 and we are now told that the figures in Boisduval and Leconte are meant to repre- 

 sent Carlota, Reakirt. These figures likewise purport to be copies from Abbot, but 

 give no idea whatever of the butterfly. The description is made up in same man- 

 ner as that of Liparops, and on same grounds I think the name Ismeria should 

 be discarded and Carlota retained. 



There are enumerated in the Synopsis 509 species, of which, previous to 1852, 

 137 were known to belong to the then United States and British America. Be- 

 tween 1852 and 1860, 61 species were added, and since 1860, 311. 



