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but most authors merely specify Vol I ;' none give the num- 

 ber of the plate, probably because in the original edition the 

 plates were not numbered, but in Wytsman's re-publication 

 they are, and this plate is No. 100. No description was given 

 by Hiibner, but his figures are unmistakable as to the under- 

 side. 



At the time Messrs. Grote and Robinson described their 

 Thccla lorata and Thecla inorata, they were of the opinion 

 that the species, since known as edzvardsii Saund., was the 

 same as calanus, Hiibn., and stated* that they had seen 

 Godart's type of T. falacer in Dr. Boisduval's collection, and 

 that it was a specimen of calanus. If they were correct in 

 their identification, and if the specimen they saw was really 

 the type of falacer, it would mean, as pointed out by Mr. 

 Grote, * that the name T. falacer, Godt. would have to re- 

 place T. edwardsii, Saund., but from the descriptions given by 

 Godart,t which I here transcribe, I am inclined to think that 

 the species described was the true calanus as we know it : 



"No. 58 Polyommate Falacer. 



"Ailes d'un brun-noiratre : leur dessous avec deux traits discoidaux 

 et deux lignes posterieures ondulees d'un bleu-pale; celui des in- 

 ferieures ayant a Tangle interne trois lunules rosses." 



Further on in the work (page 633), there is the following 

 fuller description : 



"No. 58 Polyommate Falacer. 



"Pol. alls fuscis: subtus lineola gemina disci strigisque duabus apicis 

 undulatus coerulescentibus; posticis lunuiistribus anguli ani ruHs. 



"II a un peu plus d'un pouce d'envergure. Le dessus des ailes est 

 d'un brun-noiratre sans tache dans la femelle, avec une tache blanchatre 

 cotonneuse vers le milieu des ailes superieures du male. Le dessous 

 est a peu pres de la couleur du dessus, avec un double trait central, 

 puis deux lignes transverse et ondulees, d'un bleu-pale et bordes de 

 brun-fonce sur un de leur cotes. Les secondes ailes ont en outre pres 

 de Tangle de Tanus trois chevrons roux, dont Tinterieur separe 

 des deux autres par un large groupe d'atomes bleuatre. Des 

 environs de Philadelphia, Amerique Septentrionale." 



If, however, Godart's type can be certainly identified, it 

 should be possible to settle the point beyond doubt. 



* Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, i, 324. 



t Can. Ent., ii, 166. 



X God. Encycl. Meth., ix, 600. 



