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scarcely to be separated, as already mentioned by Dr. Dyar. Agricola 

 Bdv. is yreka Edw. and has often been called nemornm Bdv. ; it may be 

 distinguished by the rather hyaline spots along the outer margin of 

 the stigma and the broad black border ; Wright figures it correctly 

 (1. c. Fig. 431b) and we think Fig. 430b is probably this species also; 

 the underside of secondaries is almost immaculate deep orange yel- 

 low in the $ 's but the 2 's usually show the pale yellow band of spots ; 

 milo Edw., judging by the original description must be very closely 

 related to agricola. Nemornm Bdv. is also very close to agricola and 

 may merely be a local form; it is paler and the hyaline spots are 

 scarcely to be traced, being merged in the yellow ground color ; the 

 underside is also much paler ; verns Edw. is a synonym ; the species 

 is apparently figured by Wright as agricola (Fig. 431) and possibly 

 also under milo (Fig. 432b) this latter figure approaching pratlncola 

 Bdv. which is we think only a form of nemornm rather more suffused 

 with orange than usual ; the 2 pratincola, as figured by M. Oberthur, is 

 seemingly better referable to sylvanoides than to nemornm but as in 

 the afore mentioned case the $ will hold the name. 



Snotvi Edw. placed doubtfully by Dyar in this genus seems rather 

 out of place with the remainder of the group, as the point of the 

 antennal knob is quite long and at least equal to the width of the 

 same; it would seem to be closely related to verna Edw., which Dyar 

 places in the genus Enphyes along with vcstris Bdv. but which must 

 be removed from here as the mid-tibiae are strongly spined and in 

 metacomet, the type of the genus, we find unspined tibiae. For the 

 present both snozvi and verna may be placed in Atrytonopsis G. & S. 

 as they do not actually contradict the definition of this genus although 

 it is quite possible they may form a new generic unit. 



Genus Thymelicus Hbn. 



This genus as characterized by Dyar (Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc. XIII. 

 127) cannot stand ; it is based on the false selection of vibex Hbn. as 

 the type species by Scudder in his Hist. Sketch 1875. The type was 

 specified in 1870 by Butler as actaeon Rott. but Scudder overrules this 

 action by a peculiar process of reasoning, claiming that actaeon falls 

 in the genus Adopaea Billb., of which thaumas had been made the 

 type in 1820, and with which actaeon was congeneric. Butler's action 

 is however perfectly valid and Scudder's proper procedure would have 

 been to have sunk Adopaea to Thymelicus if the two types actually 



