270 Mr. O. E. Janson's remarks on 



liubuer agalu represent tlie same species, I cannot, therefore, see 

 tliat anything but confusion can arise by adopting the views of 

 Godart in considering the c-aiirenm, Linn., a distinct species 

 from the c-aureum of all other authors, the only evidence in 

 favour of which is that Linueus states his species is from Asia 

 instead of North America, and we know the old writers are so 

 frequently wrong in the locfdilties; thev give that no dependance 

 can be placed on them. 



Mr. W. II. Edwards, in an elaborate ])aper extending to nine 

 pages in the Ti'ans. Amer. Ent. Soc, has further complicated 

 matters by fancying he had identified the c-aiircmiij Cram., Fab. 

 (»ec Lin.), and the intendfiatidnls, Godt. {nee Fab.), with a third 

 species which he re-nnraes F(ib?-icii ; he even calls this species 

 the red-winged Grapta, in contradistinction to tlie allied species 

 \\'hich has the posteri(^r wings l)lai-k, how came he then to 

 reconcile the figure of Cramer which has distinctly black wings, 

 and the description of Fabricius, which is evidently taken from 

 Cramer's figvu-es, witli his red winged species ? 



Mr. Kirby, in his Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, folloAvs 

 the views of Mr. Edwards, but still further ndds to the con- 

 fusion, and at the same time displays his abilitv in the identi- 

 fication of species, by adding to c-mireum, Lin., the reference 

 to Ilubuer's figures, and then (juoting angelica, Cram., as a 

 synonym ; if he has really compared the figures of these two 

 authors, and recognised them as representing one and the same 

 species, the numerous similar anomahes in Ins work can be 

 easily accounted for. 



The synonymy of the four sjiecies to which T Imve refei-red 

 is ns follows : — 



1. c-Kureuiii, L. [nee (jlodt., nee Edvv., nee Kbv. ) Nortli America, 

 c-aureum, Cram. $ . 

 c-aureum. Fab. $ . 

 interrogationis, Fab. 9 • 

 interrogationis, (iodt. ^ , 9 • 

 c-aureum, Ilubn. ^ , 9 • 

 interrogationis, Edwards, 

 iuterroaationis, Kirby. 



