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35. FENISECA Grote (18G9). 



Type: Hesperia Tarquinius Fah'T-. 



300. Tarquinius Fahr., Ent. Syst., 3, 319 {Hesperia); Herbst, Natursyst. Ins. 

 Schmett., 11, 376 {Papilio) ; God., Encycl. Meth., 9, 580 (Erydna) ; 

 Boisd.-Le C, Lep. Am. Sept., 128-9 {Polyommatus) ; Westw.-Hewits., 

 Gen. Diurn. Lep., 499 {Chrysophaniis) ; Butl., Cat. Fabr. Lep., 174-5 

 (Thestor); Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 345 {Lycaena?);. Grote, Trans. Am. 

 Ent. Soc, 3, 308 {Feniseca). 



crataegi Boisd.-Le C, Lep. Am. Sept., pi. 37, figs. 1-5 {Polyom- 



matus). 

 Porsenna Scudd., Proc. Ess. Inst., 3, 163-4 {Polyommatus). 

 Nova Scotia, Quebec and Toronto, southward — including White Mountain 

 region — to Georgia and Florida in the east, and Kansas and Texas in the west. 

 Food-plants: Alnus, Viburnum, Bibesia, Vaccinium. 



Note. — Keferstein (Zeitschr. ges, Naturw., 44, 227), gives a " Polyommatus 

 Qabbii" as a Californian representative of the European Virgaureae. No 

 species has yet been described under that name, and I know of no Californian 

 species which may be considered an analogue of the European Virgaureae. 



There is also no such insect as " Chrysophanus Nais Edw.," referred to in 

 Kirby's Catalogue (p. 653), and even in Edwards' own Synopsis (p. 32), as well 

 as in Strecker's Lepidoptera (p. 92-3). The case is similar to that given above 

 in a note at the end of the Adolescentes ; only here Edwards oddly copied 

 Kirby. 



BXn,. BtJP. SOC. NAT. SCI. (17) MAT, 1876. 



