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York Museum has convinced us that this is incorrect; harfordi in 

 both sexes shows very little black at the base of the wings on the 

 upper side, is a deep yellow color and apparently closely related to 

 interior Scud ; the species is common in S. Calif, and is figured by 

 Wright on PI. X, Figs. 84 and 85 under both harfordi and barbara, 

 the latter species having been misidentified by him. The true barbara, 

 just as stated in the author's description, has a strong sprinkling of 

 black at the base of the wings extending on the secondaries along the 

 inner margin to almost the anal angle ; the types are in wretched con- 

 dition but in our opinion bear a close relationship to occidentalis and 

 chrysomelas of which variable species barbara will probable prove to 

 be a southern race; we figure a $ from Santa Rosa, Calif., which 

 approaches the closest to our idea of barbara of any specimens we 

 have seen; the great similarity to Wright's figure of occidentalis (1. c. 

 PI. XI, Fig. 86) should at once be evident. 



E. pelidne Bdv. (PI. VII, Figs. 6-8). 



After a careful comparison of a long series from Labrador with 

 Boisduval's figures both in Lep. de l'Am. Sept. PI. 21 and Icones PI. 

 8 we must agree with Scudder (Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1862, p. 105/6) 

 that the figures were certainly not drawn up from Labrador speci- 

 mens and as Iceland and Greenland are mentioned among the type 

 localities, were probably taken from specimens from one of these 

 localities. Possibly an examination of the material in the Boisduval 

 collection now in the possession of M. Oberthur would throw some 

 light on the matter ; for the present we think it advisable to apply the 

 name labradorensis Scud, to the Labrador race the $ 's of which ap- 

 pear to be constantly smaller than Boisduval's figures. 



In Labrador specimens (Fig. 6) the discal dot of the forewing 

 is either entirely absent or only very faintly outlined by a few scat- 

 tered dark scales ; in specimens from Laggan and from Saskatchewan 

 (Fig. 7) this mark is present as a distinct but fine dash and the sec- 

 ondaries are very heavily black-sprinkled; this form is minisni Bean 

 which has usually been regarded as an Mss. name but which appears to 

 be sufficiently, if rather poorly, characterized by Bean himself in a 

 paper on C. hecla and meadi in Psyche, Vol. VII, p. 228; Verity refers 

 to the same form as menisme in his Rhop. Pal. Vol. I, p. 218. 



Skinncri Barnes from Yellowstone Park (Fig. 8) is close to 

 minisni but is considerably larger and yellower with a still more dis- 

 tinct discal dash, in fact apart from this dash this form looks much 

 more like Boisduval's figure of pelidne than any Labrador specimens 



