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specimens were evidently captured by Lorquin in the mountains of 

 Central California (which he calls Juba Mts.) at low elevation. 



(2) Behr did not restrict the name serene to his species No. 9; 

 he simply gave the name monticola to his species No. 8 and it was 

 Edwards himself who applied the name serene Bdv. to 'No. 9' (Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Phil. Ill, 436) without any definite knowledge apparently 

 either of it or that such a form was actually included among Boisdu- 

 val's types of serene. 



(3) Edwards' statement in the text to his figure of serene, as 

 quoted above, is erroneous. Boisduval did not describe hydaspc from 

 specimens separated from his former series of serene but from speci- 

 mens collected by Lorquin in the south of California (sud de la Cali- 

 fornie) at a date much later than 1852 so that his series of serene 

 could not possibly have contained the types of hydaspe; it is true that 

 Boisduval makes the statement that hydaspe may be a local variety of 

 serene but this can hardly be construed to mean that he had confused 

 them when describing serene. It seems to us therefore that monticola 

 Behr must be made a synonym of serene Bdv. the types being almost 

 identical. 



Wright's figures (1. c. PI. XIV, 120 and 122) both refer to serene 

 Bdv. 



A. HYDASPE Bdv. 



As stated under serene Bdv. this name will replace serene Edw. 

 nee Boisduval, typical specimens being found in the Yosemite Val- 

 ley and other valleys leading up to Mt. Whitney and the High Sierras ; 

 further north in Plumas County and Siskiyou Co. it is a very com- 

 mon species and is considerably darker on the underside than the 

 southern form. In our opinion it is a distinct species from serene 

 {monticola) ; Dr. McDunnough had the opportunity of observing 

 it during a season's collecting in the Upper Sacramento Valley where 

 it flies together with serene Bdv ; on the wing it can soon be distin- 

 guished by its smaller size and darker brown color; it is also much 

 more heavily black on the upper side, due largely to the great extent 

 of the black sexual scales along the veins of primaries in the $ ; on 

 the underside of secondaries the color tends more towards brick- 

 red than purplish and there is often a good deal of blackish suffu- 

 sion ; the spots are usually larger and yellower and the marginal 

 lunules are more triangular surmounted by a narrozuer but much 



