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our series both from Arizona and S. Calif, specimens of both sexes 

 are met with in which the two black spots between veins 2 and 3 and 

 3 and 4 are quite evident and also the two smaller silvery spots at the 

 anal angle ; other specimens show a reduction of the spot between veins 

 3 and 4 which may be carried so far as to leave only a few silver traces 

 and no black underlying color at all ; Wright assumed that this dis- 

 tinction was sexual but this is not the case. The species is closely 

 related to the Florida hanno, in fact the genitalia are practically the 

 same, and it is probably only a western race of this species ; it can at 

 once be distinguished by its pale violet-blue color in the $ without 

 any appreciable dark border. We cannot see any points that would 

 separate florencia from astragala and believe that they both fall before 

 gyas Edw. 



A fourth name that has been applied to this same species is 

 zachaeina Butl. and Dru. The 9 of the original description has been 

 referred to isola Reak. by Godman and Salvin but the $ as figured 

 in the Biologia (PI. 58, Figs. 36-38) is this species. We have a series 

 from Brownsville, Texas and as it differs from the Arizona form in 

 the deeper blue of the upper side (the Biologia figure is too pale) 

 and the rather broader dark margin, as well as in the apparent con- 

 stancy of the two black ocellar spots on the underside the name 

 zachaeina may be held as a racial form of gyas occuring in southern- 

 most Texas and Mexico. 



EVERES COMYNTAS Godt. 



From a large series of specimens before us from Huachuca Mts. 

 and other mountain chains of S. E. Ariz, we should be inclined to refer 

 hcrri Grinnell to comyntas rather than amyntula; the original descrip- 

 tion is rather vague and we wonder if the $ of herri was not after all 

 a $ as we have seen no Arizona 9 's which are all blue with a narrow 

 black border; the statement however that herri differs from amyntula 

 in the broader black border on the upper side and the better defined 

 and larger spots on the under side points to comyntas; further our 

 Huachuca Mt. series is distinctly double-brooded while amyntula is 

 said to be single brooded (Bethune-Baker, Ent. News, XXIV, 154) 

 and most of the specimens show red lunules near the anal angle on 

 secondaries above which is not met with in amyntula to our knowledge 

 and is supposed to be one of the distinguishing features between 

 comyntas and amyntula. Our Arizona specimens average rather larger 

 than Eastern comyntas, but large specimens from the East can hardly 



