270 Mr. O. E. Janson's retnarks rm 



Hubner again represent the same species, I cannot, therefore, see 

 that anything but confusion can arise by adopting the views of 

 Godart in considering the c-aiircmn, Linn., a distinct species 

 from the c-aitreuiii uL' all other authors, the only evidence in 

 favour of which is that Linneus states his species is from Asia 

 instead of North America, and we know the old writers are so 

 frequently wrong in the localilties they give that no dependance 

 (•an be placed on them. 



Mr. W. H. Edwards, in an elaborate paper extending to nine 

 pages in the Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, has further complicated 

 matters by fancying he had identified the c-aureum, Cram., Fab. 

 (nee Lin.), and the inteiror/ationis, Godt. (nee FaV).), Avith a third 

 species Avhich he re-names Fahricii', he e\e\\ calls this species 

 the red-winged Grapta, in contradistinction to the allied species 

 Avhich has the posterior wings black, how came he then to 

 reconcile the figure of Cramer which has distinctly black wings, 

 and the description of Fabricius, which is evidently taken from 

 Cramer's figures, with his red winged species ? 



Mr. Kirby, in his Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, follows 

 the views of Mr. Edwards, but still further adds to the con- 

 fusion, and at the same time displays his ability in the identi- 

 fication of species, by adding to c-aureum, Lin., the reference 

 to Hubner's figures, and then (juoting angelica, Cram., as a 

 synonym ; if he has really compared the figures of these two 

 authors, and recognised them as rejaresenting one and the same 

 species, the numerous similar anomahes in his Avork can lie 

 easily accounted for. 



The synonymy of the four species to which I hnve refei-red 

 is as folloAvs : — 



1 . c-aureum, L. {nee Godt., iiec Edw., vec Kbv. ) Nortli America, 

 c-aureum. Cram. $ . 

 c-aureum. Fab. $ . 

 interrogatiohis. Fab. $ . 

 interrogation is, Godt. ^ , 9 • 

 c-aureum, Hubn. ^ , 9 • 

 interrogationis, Edwaixls. 

 inter roii'ationis, Kirby. 



