The differences between these two supposed species were given in 

 the above description as follows: 



Harfordii. Barbara. 



Color: bright lemon-yellow. Color: bright canary-yellow. 



No black at base mentioned. A black cloud at base. 



No discal spot of hind wing men- Discai spot of hind wing pale orange, 



tioned. vvith smaller spot. 



Under side pale orange, devoid of Under side pale lemon-yellow; pri- 



dark scales. maries powdered along the margin 



with black scales; hind wings more 

 closely and thickly powdered, giving 

 a greenish appearance to the surface. 

 No pink at base mentioned. A pink streak at base. 



A faint indication of submarginal spots No submarginal spots mentioned. 



on both wings. 



The chief points of resemblance between the two, according to the 

 descriptions, are found in the discal spots of both surfaces, and the 

 fringes, rose-pink. 



Evidently there are two types of this species, the Harfordii type, 

 lemon-yellow, no black at base ; under side free from dark scales ; the 

 Barbara type, canary-yellow, black at base, under side of both wings 

 dusted black, the secondaries thickly. Neither of these forms has the 

 iVinges of upper side wholly pink; they are rosy, mixed with yellow on 

 upper half of fore wing, and posterior half of hind wing, but the rest, 

 amounting to nearly or quite one-half, is yellow only. On the under 

 side the Iringe is always yellow at and near inner angles of primaries, 

 and usually next outer angles of secondaries, the rest pale pink, with 

 more or less yellow mixed through it, but sometimes clear pink. 



I have upwards of fifty examples of the species before me as I write, 

 nearly all from San Bernardino, (two bred from eggs sent from that 

 place); of these 7 are females, two of which came from Mr. H. Edwards, 

 marked "type." Also a $ from him marked "type." And this 

 series shows that the two types run through both sexes. That is, 

 there are the two sexes of the Harfordii type, and the two of the Bar- 

 bara type. It is a very curious thing, and for this reason I go into 

 details at some length. Some of each sex are of a lovely bright and 

 deep yellow, called in the description canary. Some of each are lemon- 

 yellow. The typical male has no black at base; a bred female shows 

 the same peculiarity. On the other hand, many males have the black 

 at base as dense as in the type Barbara. On the under side the type 

 males are devoid of black scales, but some {Barbara type) are just as 

 much dusted over both wings as the type female, the hind wings also 

 having a greenish hue, as stated for the female. The type female has 

 no submarginal spots, but other females have the spots as distinctly as 

 any of the males; on the other hand, occasionally a male has not a 

 trace of these spots, others have a trace, as in the type; but some have 



