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Owing to the sickness of the editor, we are unable to publish a plate 

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After many unexpected and unavoidable delays, the new Check List 

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A NEW VARIETY OF Pamphila. — Paniphila niassasoit, var. suffusa 

 Laurent. The describing of the many variations of Lepidoptera caught 

 in the field is of value as well as of interest to the entomological world, 

 but the attaching thereto of a name to burden our already over-crowded 

 catalogues, seems to me to be little less than an entomological sin, but 

 where the form described teems in numbers, or is known as a local varia- 

 tion, I think the same should be given an appropriate name. In the 

 Pamphilas, particularly, there are several such forms or variations occur- 

 ring among the species found around Philadelphia. One of these, Pam- 

 phila massasoit, var. suffusa, makes its appearance about July 4th. It is 



