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Calif., which exactly agree with Scudder's figures, as well as a $ 

 labelled Utah (Bruce). The species has generally been considered 

 distinct from comma and we think correctly so ; it is most readily dis- 

 tinguished by its larger size and strongly dentate inner margin to the 

 dark outer border of primaries, this color being sharply defined from 

 the bright orange color of the remainder of the wing which projects 

 along the veins into the black border, at times almost to the outer 

 margin ; the $ stigma, as noted by Dyar, seems to be generally longer 

 and often narrower, due to the absence of black scales along its outer 

 edge, but this is not so noticeable in typical juba as in what we con- 

 sider a variety of this species from Arizona, Texas, and Colorado, 

 and which is possibly the viridis of W. H. Edwards. Viridis was 

 described from a single $ received from Prof. Snow from Las Vegas, 

 N. M., 1882 and the type is not in the Edwards' Collection ; the de- 

 scription (C. Ent. XV, 147) is poor and states that the "upper side 

 is darker — more fuscous and less fulvous — and secondaries beneath 

 and apical area of primaries are densely dusted with golden-green ; 

 the spots white and somewhat smaller than in the type." Through 

 the kindness of Prof. S. Hunter of Lawrence, Kan., we have seen a 

 specimen from the Snow Collection labelled 'juba, Hot Spgs., N. M., 

 July 82' which was probably one of the type lot of viridis if not the. 

 actual type. The underside of secondaries is a golden-green with 

 large, white, more or less coalescent spots which show a tendency to 

 curve downward and run parallel to the outer margin ; the species 

 seems common in Colorado, New Mex., Ariz, and W. Texas. 



Genus Ochlodes Scud. 



The genus is closely allied to Pamphila, but the pointed end of 

 the antennal knob is longer and slightly hooked and the $ stigma is 

 not so oblique, crossing the vein Cu 2 considerably further from its base 

 than in Pamphila. The species included in the genus are all Western 

 and have been considerably confused owing to poor descriptions; now 

 that we have M. Oberthur's excellent figures of Boisduval's types 

 (1913, Etud. Lep. Comp. IX, (1) PL 211) we are at length able to 

 correctly place the species. Sylvanoides Bdv. according to the $ sex, 

 has usually been called agricola Bdv. ; Boisduval's 9 sylvanoides looks 

 more like a small ? campestris so the name must be held to the $ . 

 Wright figures the species as pratincola (1. c. PI. 31, Fig. 433) and his 

 first figures of nemorum (Fig. 430) and milo (Fig. 432) are appar- 

 ently the same species. Napa Edw, from Colorado is only a local race 



