Additions: LYCAENIDAE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 1043 



the proximal angle and a stripe at the proximal margin; it might he taken as a scent-scale spot, if such 

 formations would not be uncommon in this genus. The under surface resembles that of flantes (120 Ac), 

 but the ground- colour is darker and the light band of the forewing is complete and extends into the apex 

 of the wing, expanding near the proximal angle into a light triangle. 



Lycaenidae. 



The ,,( 'heck-List" having in the meantime been published liy WjM. Barne.s and Mc. Dunnough, as 

 well as personal reports by Mr. W. T. M. Forbes, Ithaca, N. Y., to whom we are greatly indebted, necessi- 

 tates some alterations in the elaboration of the North American Lycaenidae. 



Th. publica Rob. is very much like the $ of papJda, but it has narrower wings; the black distal jmhiini. 

 margin of the forewing is narrower and turns jiroximad on the veins in a dentate shape; the tail-apjjendage on 

 the 1st median vein is broader and at the borders broadly covcr(-d with green lustrous scales. Beneath on 

 the forewing the green marginal scaling is reduced, the black median band of the hindwing is narrower, irre- 

 gularly defined, in the middle broader than in front, not sharply angled, but softly bent, the distal parallel 

 band is absent, but instead there are two black submarginal cucullate spots, behind them yellowish-green- 

 ish dusting. Abdomen beneath loam-coloured yellow. According to 1 $ from West Colombia (Rio Mag- 

 dalena). — This form is to be inserted on p. 746 behind pa'phia. 



Th. polios Cook d- Wts. (p. 761) is not a synonym to rno.ssl. The latter sjjccies is uniformly choco- 

 late-brown above, whereas polios is browner towards the margin on the hindwing. On the under surface the 

 distal margin of the hindwing of mossi is contrastingly red-brown with six more or less distinctly visible, 

 small internerval spots, whereas the forewing has no marginal part contrasting by a different colour. In 

 polios the hindwing shows a l)road light grey distal-marginal part, lighter than in irus, and the forewing 

 exhibits a whitish, 1 nnn broad margin before the fringes, polios originates from Maine and Colorado, mossi 

 from the western half of the States and from Pennsylvania. 



Th. dumetorum Bsd. (p. 763). The typical form in the ^ exhibits a blackish grey upper surface, 

 occasionally tinted with a faint bi'ownish red, in the + more distinct. Beneath the sexes are similar, with 

 rows of white at least on the hindwing, in about 1)0 percent on the forewings and hindwings. Range: Cali- 

 fornia. — f. perplexa Barnes and Benjamin, a geographical race from San Diego (California), differs by prrjilfwu. 

 the entire or almost entire absence of the small white spots beneath; the coppery grey area at the proximal 

 margin of the forewing almost extends to the costal margin and parts a green basal area from the green 

 apical area; the fringes are not cpiite purely white. It was usually mixed up with the Colorado-race of 

 apama and the sheridanii-racc from Utah. 



('. a f finis (p. 763) in both sexes shows a constant red-brown ground-colour above; the forewing ex- 

 hibits beneath at the proximal maigin only a slight darker shade. Fringes distally purely white. 



C. apama (p. 763) is in the tyjjical race from Arizona above grey, often with an intense coppery tint, 

 in the $ in the disc coppery red-brown, with fine black veins. The mider surface in the colour resembles 

 the race perplexa of dumetorum-, the white markings are still more prominent and usually bordered with a 

 red-brown band. The white band of the hindwing consists of white, cresentiform confluent spots, in the 

 centre very much distally angled, proximally bordered with black, behind it with a red-brown band. Fringes 

 quite dark, at the anal angle of the hindwing white. — f. honioperplexa Barnes and Benjamin is the race hamoyirr- 

 from Colorado. Above the cJ^? f^'*' icdder than any other species or race except affinis from which it is plcra. 



easily discernible by the coppery or red-brown spot on the forewing beneath extending from the jiroximal 

 margin to the costal margin. Beneath the white markings bordered with black and brown are reduced to 

 single small spots, and may occasionally disappear altogether. 



C. sheridanii in the tyjiical form shows dark grey wings aliove anil is beneath darker green than 

 the other species; both wings are beneath crossed by bands of small white punctiforni spots, on the forewing 

 almost, on the hindwing entirely confluent, so that they are here no more discernible as single dots, proxi- 

 mally bordered by a distinct black line. Fringes purely white. Denver (Colorado). — f. neoperplexa Barnes ncoprr- 

 and Benjamin is the race from Utah which is above lighter grey and does not exhibit any purely white plcxa. 



fringes. Beneath the white dots are reduced, on the forewing occasionally disappearing altogether, on the 

 hindwing forming a thin line. 



C xam.i (= blenina) (p. 77-), as well as rhodope, loki, spinetorurn, jolinsoni, castnlis, siva and nelsoni 

 ought to be placed with daman- (p. 79S) together into the subordinate genus Mitoura: siva Edw. nuist be 

 eliminated as a synonym to xami, the type is very closely allied to nelson ii or its form muirii, to which it 

 may belong as a synonym according to Barnes and Benjamin. — castalis belongs to daman and has the 

 priority of its form discoidalis Skinn. (p. 798). We add another form to it: r. patersonia i?/-c/<me, a seasonal pakmoma. 

 form, being dark sooty brown $$. 



