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NOTES AND NEW SPECIES 



PAPILIONIDAE 



Papilio troilus ilioneus a. & S. 



A study of Abbot's figures of this species (1797, Lep. Ins. Ga. 

 PI. II) inclines us to the belief that the specimen figured in the upper 

 left-hand corner on which the text practically bases the name ilioncns 

 is that of the southern race to which the name texanus Ehr. has been 

 generally applied. We would call attention to the large marginal spots 

 extending to the costa of primaries and preceded by a partial row of 

 yellow spots and also to the broad extent of the greenish area on sec- 

 ondaries both of which features are characteristics of the southern 

 race. The description of troilus apparently applies to the northern 

 form and certainly Cramer's figure (Pap. Exot., Ill, pi. 207, B. C.) 

 does, so that by using the name troilus for this northern form the name 

 ilioneus A. & S. becomes applicable for the southern race with texanus 

 Ehr. as a synonym. 



Parnassius clodius Men. 



The synonymy of this species must be changed somewhat from 

 the conception given in our Check List. Mcnetricsi Hy. Edw. has 

 been listed by both Dyar and Skinner as published in 1878; the species 

 was published in Pac. Coast Lep. No. 22 with the date of Dec. 18th, 

 1876; as these articles were issued as separates before the completion 

 of the whole volume of the Proc. Calif. Acad, of Science {z'idc Strecker, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am., 1878, p. 225) it is reasonable to suppose that No. 22 

 appeared early in 1877 at least a month or so before the publication 

 of W. H. Edwards' Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera which prob- 

 ably did not appear much before April, 1877, as it is reviewed in the 

 Can. Ent. for May of that year. On page 12 of this catalogue Edwards 

 lists menetriesi Hy. Edw. and later in the work mentions several others 

 of Hy. Edwards' new species from the same paper so that it is evident 

 that the article in question was known to him before the issuing of his 

 Catalogue. The name baldur proposed by him in this catalogue for the 

 figures 1-4 of Plate IV, Vol. I of his Butterflies of N. America is 

 therefore antedated by mcnetricsi Hy. Edw. According to the descrip- 

 tion the name menetriesi is based on specimens in which both sexes 



