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There is one statement made by Dr. Skinner which appears 

 to need modification or explanation ; namely, that Edwards did 

 not publish the plate drawn by D. Wiest, showing the male 

 that he had described in 1862. 



In Vol. I, Butterflies of North America, p. 175, (following 

 the author's instructions regarding pencilling in the numbers 

 for plates and text pages), is given a list of "Dates of Issue of 

 Parts i-io." Part i reads as follows: "June, 1868, (on cover 

 April, 1868) containing Argynnis Diana, A. cybele, A. aphro- 

 dite, A. nokomis, A. atlantis." That the part was duly sent 

 out is shown by the following quotation from The Canadian 

 Entomologist under the heading of "Review of New Entomo- 

 logical Works" :^ "The part contains 5 large 4to plates of these 

 various species of Argynnis, viz., A. diana, cybele, aphrodite 

 nokomis and atlantis, accompanied by descriptive letter press 

 of a valuable character." 



In Kirby's Catalogue^ the reference to Argynnis nokomis 

 Edw. reads: "Proc. Ac. Na. Sc, Phila., p. 221 (1862) But. of 

 N. Am. I, iv (1868) ;" the locaHty is cited as Montana. 



Edwards, Synopsis,^ species 4, of Argynnis reads ^'nokomis $ 

 Edw. Proc. Ac. Na. Sc, Phila., 1862, "^But. N. A., pi. iv of 

 Argynnis (1868)." 



It therefore seems quite evident that Part I, with its 5 plates, 

 including that of nokomis, male only, drawn by D. Wiest, and 

 accompanying letter-press for each, was duly forwarded to sub- 

 scribers. 



A further reference to "Dates of Issue" shows Supplement, 

 Jan., 1873, ''containing new plates of Argynnis diana, A. noko- 

 mis, A. leto." So it seems that, after five years elapsed since 

 the plates of A. diana and A. nokomis were issued, new plates 

 were made and sent out with new letter press likewise, but 

 whether subscribers were requested or instructed to replace the 

 originals by the revised ones or not I have no means of know- 

 ing, but there seems no doubt both were issued ; in fact, in the 



^ Can. Entom. I. pp. 22-23, Toronto, Oct. 15, 1868. 

 ^ Synonymical Catalogue of diurnal Lepidoptera, p. 157, 1871. 

 "^ Synopsis of N. A. Butterflies, p. 12, Phila., 1872, (also in reprint 

 of 1879). 



