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One specimen, deposited in the collection of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural 0)llege. 



Color Variant 2.--Like the typical form described above, but with 

 mandibles for the most part stramineous, palpi dark stramineous, tegu- 

 lae stramineous, apice* of fore coxae touched with stramineous, fore 

 trochanters and femora entirely stramineous, middle Ursi mostly stra- 

 mineous, but their apical segments brown. 



One specimen, deposited in the collection of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural Collie. 



Color yariomi 3.— Uke Color N'ariant 2, but with distal half of mid- 

 dle femora stramincoos. middle tibiae entirely stramineous, and hind 

 tibiae oonaiderably rtra m i n eou s along their front sides except at base 

 and apex. 



Two spectinens. one of which is deposited in the collection 

 of the Massachusetts Agricultural Collie. 



This very variable species may grade into forms heretofore 

 described, but. as its relationships are unknown and as it seems 

 necessary to c^tat>lish its identity in connection with the writ- 

 er's cranberry insect investigations, it is here described as new. 

 Moreover, the detailed description of so great variation as is 

 shown by these specimens is always desirable. 



Boisduval's Lycaena piasus and Lycaena rhaea (Lep.). 

 By J. R. Haskin. Los Angeles, Cal. 

 Two very inter^ting series of notes have recently been pub- 

 lished concerning M. Charles Oberthur's figures of the Bois- 

 duval types of North American Lycaenidae. One of them i« 

 entitled ** Lycaenidae of California Described by Boisduval," 

 by William Phillips Comiitoclc, in the Journal of the New 

 York lintomolotjuiil Sourly, Vol. xxii. No. I, March. 1914, 

 and the other is entitled "Notes on the Synonymy of Boisdu- 

 val's N. American S|H*cics of Lycaenidae." by J. McDun- 

 nough, Ph.D.. in the lintomoUujist's Record and Journal of 

 I'ariation. Vol. xxvi. No. 9, September 15, 1914, in London, 

 F.ng. Messrs. Comstock and McDunnough. after an examina- 

 tion of Oberthiir's figures, have both come to the conclusion 

 that American entomologists, during the past fifty years, have 



