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In colour and general appearance, though not in size and detail, it strongly reminds one of the European Puarpera.* 



C'atocala Perdita, Henry Edwards, MSS. 



Expands 2i inches. N'ory close to Faiuttina, but the primaries are of a more l)luish tinge, having none of the yellowish cast of that 

 species; the transverse lines arc heavier, and there i« generally more sprinkling of hiacic atoms throughout. The apiceH of the secon- 

 CMries of Fau*Una arc partly rosy, in this they arc cnlirely white. San Mateo Comity, California. 



There is also another example, much mutilated, whiili is so close to Irene, Behr, that I .should have considered it identical had it 

 not been for the circumstance that Dr. Bclir's species lias a good sized white apical spot on tip of secondaries, whilst in the example in 

 question the black marginal band fills out the whole ape.x to the fringe. .VIso the mesial band in this example is narrower, although 

 that is not necessarily si>ecitic, as in some of my exani)ilcs of C yupta this band is only one-half the width that it is in other examples. 

 I have retnrne<l this example to Mr. Eilwards for his further examination, considering that as he discovered it, an<l is, moreover, work- 

 ing up the Heteroiera of the Ear West, it is only simple justice that he should name it. Well knowing, at the same time, that it will 

 not in his hands, at least, be ilegraded with such a,s,sociations as Browniana, 8nuggsiensis or Tompkinsii. Shades of the mighty ! with 

 what names do some of the .\merican Entomologists as.sociate Humboldt, Cuvierand Latreille. It remindeth one not of the lamb and lion 

 lying down together, but of an illustration I once saw, where a small jioodle, with closely-shaved hind ijuarters, was complacently 

 gazing on the caged monarch of the forest. 



Among k large quantity of miterial captured in Texas by Mr. J. Boll, and lately received by me, were two examples of Colia'i 

 Chrysotheme (^ 9, which after the most careful comparison I found to agree exactly with the large suite of European specimens in 

 my cabinet. There is the same suffu.sion of greyish atoms on upper surface of secondaries, and the same heavy greenish on under 

 surface ; they are the same size as the P^uropean examples, and agree with them throughout, to the utmost minutiae of shade and mark- 

 ing, and are as distinct from Jiurythemef and its var. Keewaydin X as they are from Aurora'^^ or Pyrrothoe. \\ Dr. Boisduval long since 

 credited this species to X. America, but the American Lepidopterists have united in erroneously maintaining that EuryOteiiie was the 

 insect he had in view, and that Chrysotheme was not found here at all. 



* Giorna, Cal. Ent., Torina, 1791. 

 t Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 286, (1852J. 

 I Edwards, Butt. N. Am., Colias 4, (18G9j. 

 I Esper, Schmett. I, 2, t. 83, (1783). 

 IIHubner, Samml. Ex. Schmett., (1816-1836 j. 



August, 1874. I ' * FVf->)"''»T^. 



