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FURTHER NOTES ON PHILOTES BATTOIDES 

 AND ITS ALLIES 



Since the publication of our notes on this species in 'Contributions' 

 Vol. Ill, No. 2, p. 116 we have continued our investigations and have 

 arrived at a much better comprehension of the species forming the 

 group, their distribution and their racial forms ; we offer the following 

 paper therefore with a view to assisting students in correctly identify- 

 ing their material. 



Dealing first of all with P. battoides Behr we would point out that 

 we were in error in our previous notes in citing the type locality as the 

 headwaters of the Tuolumne River ; it was at the headwaters of the San 

 Joaquin River that the type specimens were captured, a locality some- 

 what further south than the first mentioned one although in the same 

 general region; our specimens from Mineral King, Tulare Co. were 

 therefore taken very close to the type locality and we consider that we 

 are justified, in view of the fact that the types are destroyed, in consid- 

 ering these specimens as typical ; our figures on PI. XI, Figs. 7, 8, 10 

 of the work already quoted will represent then the nimotypical form. 



We have already referred to the $ genitalia as being very dis- 

 tinctive and as forming an excellent means — and in some cases, as we 

 will show later, practically the only means — of distinguishing battoides 

 from enoptes and its close allies. These genitalia we now figure (PI. 

 XVII, Fig. 3) : the tegumen with its high lateral cheeks and absence 

 of the dorsal portion together with the presence of stout falces or 

 hooks springing from the lower portion of the cheeks and meeting 

 medially above the penis at once show the species to belong to the 

 typical Lycaenid group of 'blues' ; the valvae or claspers with their 

 strong bifid dorsal prong and their flat rounded ventral portion with 

 two strong spines on its dorsal margin are very characteristic for the 

 species ; we might point out that there is considerable variability with 

 regard to these two spines ; a single specimen may have one clasper of 

 the normal form whereas in the other the spines may have coalesced or 

 the inner one be wanting ; on the whole however the type is very con- 

 stant and we can point to nothing in the genitalia (except the smaller 

 size as is natural) whereby our recently described race bcrnardino 

 (PI. XVII, Fig. 4) can be distinguished from the typical form. 



