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comma, hatch about 10 days after egg laying, whereas comma eggs 

 hibernate and hatch the following spring; this fact in itself would be 

 sufficient to warrant a separation of manitoboides from comma. 



P. Columbia Scud. 



This species was shortly described in Scudder's Syst. Rev. p. 77, 

 attention being called to the difference in the $ sexual organs ; the $ 

 type from California, which is in Cambridge, is figured in Scudder's 

 paper in Mem. Bost. Soc. N. Hist. (1874, Vol. II, No. 4) as sylra- 

 noides Bdv. (PI. 10, Fig. 22) and the genitalia are also figured (PI. 

 11, Figs. 15, 17). The species is quite distinct from sylvanoides and 

 we think also from comma and its varieties judging by the genitalia. 

 Wright has called it California, figuring it on Plate XXXI, Fig. 423, 

 his underside specimen having the markings rather more reduced than 

 usual; as Columbia he figures (Fig. 426) what is probably sonora 

 Scud, and apparently not distinct from his Fig. 425. Dyar has also 

 redescribed the species as erynnioides (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XV, 50) ; 

 both Dyar and Scudder note the presence of a blackish patch below 

 the stigma; this and the very straight oblique row of white spots on 

 underside of secondaries with only a single spot in cell 6 and none in 

 cell 7, separate it readily from comma; the dentate inner edge of the 

 marginal border on secondaries is also a point of distinction. Scud- 

 der's 9 sylvanoides (PI. 10, Fig. 21) is probably not correctly re- 

 ferred; the band of spots on secondaries is differently shaped to that 

 of the male and a pale spot near the base of the cubital branches is 

 shown which is not present in the true 9 's which further agree exactly 

 with the $ 's on the under side. W. H. Edwards (Can. Ent. XV, 148) 

 discusses the species at length and also considers it a good species ; he 

 without a description, for comma Bdv. {nee Linn.) ; the species was 

 described from a $ from California (Hy. Edwards) this specimen 

 can, at best, be only typical. 



P. juba Scud. 



The name was first used in 1872 in the Systematic Revision, 

 without a description, for comma Bdv. {nee Linn) ; the species was 

 described and figured in Scudder's paper in 1874 in Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. Hist., II (4), p. 349, PI. X, Figs. 19, 20 and is stated to occur in 

 California and the vicinity of Salt Lake City, Utah; the specimens 

 figured are from Utah so this must be regarded as the type locality. 

 We have specimens from various localities in the Sierra Nevada Mts., 



