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this Calif ornian species were noted and both were figured by 

 Mr. Edwards ; the one he called clarius is not the European 

 clarius and he subsequently changed the name to baldur Ed- 

 wards. Baldur is immaculate on the secondaries above except 

 for the two red spots. Clodius' has a submarginal line of 

 curved lines parallel to the margin. The females of the two 

 forms differ very little, if at all, from each other. 



Menetriesii Henry Edwards differs very little from the nor- 

 mal form. From the figure of the type it will be noted that 

 the two red spots on the upperside of the secondaries are a 

 trifle smaller than in the general run of specimens. It is a 

 rather common occurrence to find that red and yellow in in- 

 sects are interchangeable and in some of the species of Par- 

 nassius the spots may be either red or yellow. Dyar has called 

 the clodius with yellow spots, altaurus. I believe the name 

 should be dropped. Workers in some of the other orders do 

 not believe in naming color phases. Mr. Oberthiir has de- 

 scribed and figured a remarkable aberration of clodius under 

 the name lorquini. There is a dark border to the primaries 

 and two black dashes in the cell, one near the middle and the 

 other at the end. The secondaries are immaculate above. 

 The writer described a Parnassius under the name immaculata 

 which may be an aberration of clodius. It was taken July 

 30th, 1905, by Mr. J. W. Coxey, on the Fire Hole River, near 

 Old Faithful Geyser, in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyo- 

 ming. 



H. Stichel in 1907 published a revision of the Parnassinae 

 m the Genera Insectorum, and introduces some new names 

 for American variations. He gives the name claudianus to 

 specimens from the coast region of Washington, British Co- 

 lumbia and Vancouver Island. These do not differ in any 

 way from specimens found in California and figured by Ed- 

 wards. Gallatinus Stichel I also consider to be a synonym of 

 clodius. It is represented by the figures of clodius given by 

 EIrod in his Butterflies of Montana. 



On plate I of his Butterflies of the West Coast, W. G. 

 Wright gives a number of figures that show some of the vari- 

 ations of clodius. Lusca Stichel is an aberration with the lower 



