1911] Coolidge — Western Lepidoptera 33 



Butterflies (4th Ann. Rept. Trustees Peabody Acad. Sci., p. 

 78, 1872) erects the genus Atalopedes without description and 

 includes two species, Hesperia huron Edwards and H. campestris 

 Beisduval, the former being named as the type. These two 

 species are now known to be identical, campestris having priority. 

 Pamphila kedema Butler, from an unknown locality, also falls 

 into synonomy here. Further, on page 81, Dr. Scudder founds 

 the genus Pansydia, making Hesperia meso gramma the type, 

 which he apparently places in synonomy with H. cunaxa Hewit- 

 son. These two species are also one and the same, mesogramma 

 retaining. Dr. Scudder gives Poey as the author of this, but 

 presumably in error, as I find Latreille is given by all the other 

 writers to whom I have referred. Pansydia is acknowledged to 

 be a synonym of Atalopedes, which can then be seen to contain 

 two species, A. campestris Boisduval and A. mesogramma Lat- 

 reille, the latter occurring with us. However, I do not at all 

 believe that Atalopedes is worthy of generic rank, but for the 

 present I shall leave it so, although I hope to show that such 

 secondary sexual characters as the discal stigma or the costal 

 fold do not alone indicate generic difference. 



Melitaea cerrita Wright. Butt. West Coast, p. 161, No. 

 189, pi. 20, fig. 189, cf , a, d" , underside, b9 , 1905. Described 

 from Id^, 19, the type locality being given as "Southern Cali- 

 fornia." Mr. Wright, however, pointed out the exact habitat 

 to me last spring, which is Little Mountain, several miles to 

 the north of San Bernardino, and not far from the original 

 locality of M. wrighti Edwards. Cerrita is a pure aberration of 

 wrighti, with which it will be placed in synonomy. I have else- 

 where remarked that I cannot consider wrighti and leanira 

 specifically distinct, but would consider them as M. leanira 

 leanira Boisduval and M. leanira tvrighti Edw. In this 

 connection it is interesting to note that W. H, Edwards, after 

 his original description of wrighti, adds, "from Icf , and 1 9 sent 

 me by Mr. W. G. Wright at San Bernardino flying with leanira." 

 The length and form of the antenna and the antennal club have 

 for some time been used as taxonomic characters, but the colora- 

 tion and annulation of these have perhaps been unduly neglected. 



For instance, leanira leanira, leanira wrighti and alma Strecker, 

 of which I shall elsewhere show fulvia EdWards and cyneas 



