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not labelled and as already stated cannot distinguish them from nem- 

 esis. The species seems to occur commonly all along our southern 

 border. 



LYCAENIDAE 



Strymon calanus Hbn. 



Lorata G. & R. has been placed as a variety of this species with 

 a black transverse line on the underside near base of wings. An ex- 

 amination of the type specimen in the American Museum at New 

 York very clearly shows that this line has been painted on the speci- 

 men which is calanus pure and simple. Inorata Grt. the type of which 

 we also examined is a slight varietal form of calanus with the inner 

 white border line to the transverse dark band on underside of fore 

 wing obsolete ; in our opinion the name is not worth retaining. 



S. AURETORUM Bdv. 



In our paper in Ent. Record XXVI, 195 (1914) we expressed our 

 inability to identify this species but associated it doubtfully with 

 tacita Hy. Edw. Since writing the above article we have received a 

 pair of Theclas from Sonoma Co., Calif., the $ of which agrees with 

 the description of tacita Hy. Edw., described from Mendocino Co., 

 excellently ; it also approaches very close to Oberthur's figure of 

 auretorum, only differing in possessing some slight blue scales on the 

 underside of secondaries near the anal angle which in a single (and 

 possibly worn) specimen might easily be missing. Both Boisduval 

 and Hy. Edwards in their descriptions mention that on the upper side 

 near the anal angle of secondaries are some faint ochraceous or red- 

 dish scales ; these are also very faintly present in our S from Sonoma 

 Co. Boisduval in his introduction states that the insects described in 

 this first paper on Californian Lepidoptera were collected by Lorquin 

 either in the placer mining districts, i. e. Placer, Eldorado, and Nevada 

 counties chiefly, or the northern portions of California; at all events 

 we can accept the type locality for auretorum as north of an imaginary 

 line drawn between San Francisco and Virginia City, Nevada. 



Skinner (Ent. News, XXV, 47) and Comstock (Jour. N. Y. Ent. 

 Soc. XXII, 34) list spadix Hy. Edw. as a synonym of auretorum 

 Bdv. Spadix was described from 2 9 's from Tehachapi Pass, Kern 

 Co., S. Calif. ; we have a series of both sexes before us including speci- 

 mens from the type locality and find that the $ 's certainly approach 



