rLATY.SA.MlA LiLOVEKl. 



Sceon<laricr;. Color same as in primaries: ornamentation same as in male, except the 

 (liscal spot whieli is tlouble tlu' size. 



lender surface marked same as ilic npi>er : coloration same as in under .surfiiec of male. 



ITal)ifut. Arizona. 



This species 1 Iiave nameil in honor of tiiat most indefatigable of all hard working- 

 naturalists, Prof. Townend (Jlovcr, of ^\'ashingtu^, D. C, who fir.st .showed me examples of 

 it, which were saiil to have eome from lower California, but as L. AA'eidcmeyerii, Parn. 

 Smintheus, and other northern Montane s[)ecies were sent along in company with it, I ex- 

 prcs.<c<l my douVjts regarding that locality, which have since been confirmed by my receiving 

 a female example from Arizona. 



Of the distinctness of this species from P. lOuryale, Boisd., (!'. Californiea Grote, ) and 

 P. Ceerojiia, there cannot be a i)artielc of doubt, but what relation it may bear to P. Columbia, 

 Smith, I am unable to say, (tliough the wide differenee in locality convinces mo they are dis- 

 tinct,) as I believe no figure has yet been published of the latter species, and Prof. S. J. Smith's 

 types are all contained in some instifutinn in Massaclnisetts, and the species must consequently 

 remain a blank to the scientifi<- world, until some one gives a figure of it. Apropos to this giv- 

 ing (leseri|)tions without figures, 1 may say that we Americans certainly occnpy a niost inienvia- 

 ble pre-eminence ; it" we had more figures and fewer ilescri[>tions there would \)v, 1 have little 

 doubt, niort' satisfaction ami considerably less confusion among scientists. The idea of ex- 

 pecting anythingshort of the -npernatnral to identify a TA-c;ena, llesperia, or any of the smaller 

 noetuid;e, by a mere description, is jn'cjHistcrous. Why, even larger species cannot thus be 

 identified. I wf)uld like to sec the Entomologist who could, by any description, identify or 

 separate from each other Vanessa Polychloros, Californiea, Xanthomelas, and L'hnusa — yet 

 although probably sprung from the same root, they are different in ajipcarance when placed 

 side by side, and exist in localities widely remote from each other. I would say the .same of 

 A"an. .1. Album and V. Album, or of many of the Coliades. Many and many a time have I, 

 when a whole evening was wasted, trying with aching head to find out whether some little 

 butterfly was something or something else, consigned the discoverer of the species in (juestion 

 to all kinds of unspeakable torments. Here is a sample of the result of tliis st;itc of affairs, 

 as show n by the latest synopsis of North American Butterflies, by W. IT. Edwards : Thccla 

 llunudi, Harris, is Melinus, Hub., Pavonius, Bois. tt Lee, and Hypcrici, Lois. & Lee., 

 T. Edwardsii, Saunders is Falacer, Harris and Calanus, Grote & Eobinson, while Calanus, 

 Hub., is Falacer, Godt. T. Viridis, Edwards, is Humetorum, Boisd. T. Henrici, Grote, is 

 Arsace, Boi,se & T,ec. fACjena Anna, Edwards, is Cajona, Reakirt, Argyrotoxus, Bchr, and 

 Philemon, Boisd. 



The female of Colia> Eurydice has been in its time Gonepteryx Rhanini, Gonepteryx 

 Lonpiinii, and lastly Megonost(mia Helena, Male ! and if the brilliant colored male had not 

 been at last coupled to his plain spouse, heaven knows what she would not have been. I 

 might go on multiplying instances ad libitum, but until the descriptions of species arc accom- 

 l>anicd by correct figures, every new species descriljcd will but add to confusion confounded. 



