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RHIODINIDAE 



Apodemia cythera Edw. 



This species was described from 3 $ 's captured in Arizona by 

 Lieut. Wheeler's expedition ; judging by an account of the route taken 

 by this expedition the specimens were captured in the western por- 

 tion of the state near the California boundary. Mead figures the 

 species from one of the types on PI. 36, Figs. 3 and 4 of the Report 

 of this Expedition ; this figure leaves little doubt in our mind but that 

 cythera must sink as a synonym of virgulti Behr described from S. 

 California ; the small size, the sharp contrast between the dark base 

 and the subterminal orange band on secondaries with scarcely a trace 

 of white spots on the basal edge of this band and the small size of the 

 white subterminal spots as well as the very dark under side all point 

 to its identity with virgulti and the type localities of the two species are 

 not at all divergent. In the Edwards' Collection the specimens stand- 

 ing under this name are forms of the variety duryi of mormonia in 

 which the whole hind wings are more or less suffused with orange ; 

 such a form is figured by Wright as cythera (PI. XXVII, Fig. 295). 

 Our Arizona localities for mormonia and its forms are all from the 

 southeastern portion and it seems quite possible that duryi is a syn- 

 onym of mejicanus Behr (Proc. Cal. Ac. Sci. Ill, 178) ; an examina- 

 tion of Mexican material will be necessary however to settle this. The 

 types of cythera which should be in the National Museum are presum- 

 ably destroyed. 



Calephelis nemesis Edw. 



We can see nothing that would separate australis Edw. from this 

 species. Nemesis was described in 1871 from a $ taken in Arizona 

 by Dr. Palmer and the type which should be in the National Museum 

 has probably been lost before the collection of the Agricultural Dept. 

 was transferred. In the Edwards' Collection are several specimens, 

 all poor, from Arizona and S. California under this name; they can- 

 not be separated from other specimens from S. Calif, and Texas placed 

 under australis; this latter species was described in 1879 from speci- 

 mens received from Boll in San Antonio, Texas, and at about the same 

 time Strecker described guadcloupe from material received from the 

 same source, antedating his paper in order to secure priority. We 

 have seen Strecker's types and also the specimens from Texas in the 

 Edwards' Collection under australis which are probably types although 



