NO. 7 THE GOLD-BANDED SKIPPER CLARK I5 



the name from Doubleday and Hewitson. In his " Synopsis of the 

 described Lepidoptera of North America " pubHshed by the Smith- 

 sonian Institution in February 1862 Doctor Morris, under Hesperia 

 cclliis, gave a brief diagnosis of this species, with the habitat United 

 States. 



In 1870 Arthur Gardiner Butler proposed the new genus Spathilcpia 

 in which he included ccllus as the last of several species listed. 



In his " Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera" published 

 in 1 87 1 William Forsell Kirby listed both Spathilcpia ccllus and 

 Thymelc festus. 



William Henry Edwards in his " Synopsis of North American 

 Butterflies " published in 1872 included Spathilcpia ccllus, giving as 

 the habitat the Southern States and West Virginia. 



One of the unpublished plates of butterflies and moths prepared by 

 Townend Glover shows colored figures of the larva and pupa of this 

 species, and another shows both surfaces of the wings of the imago. 

 They are identified as Eiidamus ccllus, and were copied from the 

 figures of Abbot reproduced by Boisduval and Le Conte. 



In the list of the Lepidoptera collected in 1871-1874 in California, 

 Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, published by 

 W. H. Edwards in 1875 in the " Report upon Geographical and Geo- 

 logical Surveys West of the One Hundredth Meridian in Charge of 

 First Lieut. George M. Wheeler," Eudamus ccllus is included, but 

 there is no indication of the locality where it was taken. 



In his " Butterflies and Moths of North America " published in 

 1878 Ferdinand Heinrich Herman Strecker included Eudamus ccllus, 

 and gave a short synonymy ; the range he gave as from Virginia south- 

 ward to the Gulf of Mexico. 



Eudamus ccllus is included in the " List of North American Macro- 

 lepidoptera " prepared by the Publication Committee of the Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society and published by the Society in 1881. 



In a revision of the genus Eudamus published in 1882 Carl Plotz 

 listed Eudamus festus, crediting the species to Hiibner instead of to 

 Geyer and placing E. ccllus as a synonym under it. 



Edwards in 1883 recorded Eudamus ccllus from Arizona, where it 

 had been taken in 1882 by H. K. Morrison either in the vicinity of 

 Fort Grant, Cochise County, or on Graham Mountain. 



In his " Revised Catalogue of the Diurnal Lepidoptera of America 

 North of Mexico " published in November 1884 Edwards included 

 festus Hiibner as a synonym of Eudamus ccllus, the range of which 

 he gave as West Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. 



