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Reakirt's description of xami, the type of which we could not find, 

 although we searched in the Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago 

 Museum collections; siva Edw. at present listed as a synonym of 

 blenina, must be removed, it seems very closely associated with nel- 

 soni Bdv. or rather with its form muiri Edw., practically the only dif- 

 ference being the green color of the underside ; that this color is how- 

 ever very fugitive is shown in certain Utah specimens before us in 

 which one side is green, the other brown, probably due to moisture in 

 relaxing the specimens ; we should incline to list siva as the Rocky Mt. 

 race of nelsoni Bdv. We figure both sides of xami (Figs. 19, 20) 

 from specimens from Brownsville, Texas, and the underside of siva 

 (Fig. 21) from Redington, Ariz., for comparison. 



Castalis Edw. 



We are unable to separate this form from damon Cram, and it 

 has already been listed as a synonym by Scudder (Butt. II, 861). The 

 species was described from specimens received from Belfrage col- 

 lected near Waco, Texas ; there are no types of the species marked in 

 the Edwards' Collection, but under this name are 3 specimens from 

 Texas, apparently all 5 's, which cannot be separated from damon by 

 the markings on the underside. Skinner's variety discoidalis was also 

 described from presumable $ 's from Blanco Co., Texas, a locality but 

 little removed from Waco. If a name is to be used for the Texan 

 form, which as a rule has the yellow color on upper side in the $ sex 

 paler and more extended (this is however not entirely constant) and 

 the tails considerably longer it seems to us that castalis Edw. will take 

 priority over discoidalis Skin. ; the Texan 9 's in our series from 

 Shovel Mt. and Kerrville vary from specimens strongly overlaid with 

 chestnut brown scales to entirely sooty brown forms, these latter speci- 

 mens agreeing with the form described as pater sonia by Brehme (Ent. 

 News, XVIII, 82) and which is now considered to be a seasonal form 

 of damon. 



Heodes florus Edw. 



The species was described from specimens received from Capt. 

 Geddes collected on the Red Deer River, Alta., presumably south of 

 Edmonton ; the specimens in the Edwards' Collection under this name 

 are from Laggan, Alta. so cannot be considered as types. Through 

 the kindness of Mr. A. Gibson we have recently had the opportunity 

 of examining a $ specimen of florus from the Geddes Collection at 



