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abundantlv near Los Angeles, some of 

 which Mr. H. Edwards afterwards 

 named liliana^ thongh I slioidd certain- 

 ly call them callippc. 



A. scm/rainis. again, is aSoutiiCaH- 

 fornian form, which has been t^ken by 

 Air. Wright in the mountains separating 

 the San lieniadino Valley from the 

 Mohave Desert, and of which I haye 

 six specimens from him, as it was not 

 yet out when I yisited these mountains 

 in May, iSSS. To my eye it is nothing 

 more than a form of coio/iis^ in which 

 the black markings on the upper side 

 have become paler and more reduced, 

 as might be expected from the arid 

 character of the country \yhere it is 

 found. Edwards says: — "It is curious 

 how the markings resemble two such 

 distinct species as adiante (upper side) 

 AWiS. coroiiis (lower sitle)." 



The species allied to /fioniicola^ name- 

 ly zere/ie and brcniiier/\ haye puzzled 

 me cjuiteas much as Edwards, Strecker, 

 and others, and I do not see how the 

 difficidties of their synonymy can eyer 

 be cleared up ; but I can only say that, 

 if I have not succeeded in arranging 

 them correctly, it is not from idleness or 

 carelessness, but on account of the im- 

 possibility of identifying species or forms 

 described in such a way as these have 

 been. Many of the names cannot be 

 certainly identified, and had better be 

 dropped. I think, ln)weyer, that three 

 more or less distinct forms can be recog- 

 nized among the very numerous speci- 

 mens which I have from the Pacific 

 States. These are a larger form nion- 

 ticola., and a smaller form, \yhich both 



Messrs. H. and W. II. Edwards call 

 zcre/w^ Bdv. 'J'hcse botli yai\ exti'eme- 

 ly on the under side, but in monticola^ 

 the males occasionally, and the females 

 usually, have more or less silvery spots ; 

 vvhilst in zcroie the duller and paler 

 color of the underside is vyithout any 

 siher except on the marginal row. 

 These distinctions, however, are based 

 upon Californian specimens, mostly from 

 the vShasta district, and, according to 

 Edwards's opinion in 1S79 (see Can. 

 E//t. p. 55-56), do not apply to Nevada 

 specimens. He then considered rjionti- 

 cola to be only a var. of zerene, but put 

 them do\yn as two species in his cata- 

 logue of 1SS4. Further north, in the 

 damper cliiuate of Oregon and Washing- 

 ton Territory, as also commonly in Van- 

 couver's Island, a darker form, bretu- 

 Hen\ occurs, which on the underside is 

 well spotted with silver in both sexes, 

 and might be consitlered as the Pacific 

 coast form of atlantis., but in the speci- 

 mens taken on Mount Hood by Morrison 

 {I'/iodope Edw'.), and also occasionally 

 in Vancouver, the silver is absent, and 

 these specimens might well be consid- 

 ered as a northern and darker form of 

 zcre/ic. 



A. hippolyia, which is also kept up 

 by its author as a species, is described 

 without reference to its allies, and seems 

 to be something intermediate between 

 hesperis and some form of zereuc or 

 nionticola. Its locality would indicate 

 that it may be nearer to them than to at- 

 lantis. It was described from four 

 males and one female only.* 



*Mr. Strecker informs me that In'pfolyta was de- 



