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northernmost point, and from the top of the Las \^egas Range, 

 Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, the southernmost. Smin- 

 theus has been recorded from CaHfornia, Nevada, Utah, Colo- 

 rado, New Mexico, Montana and British America, although 

 I have not seen specimens from California or Nevada. 



Sminthcus variety hcrmodur Henry Edwards. This was ap- 

 parently described from a single female as the author says 

 "this extremely interesting insect was generously given to me 

 by my friend Dr. James S. Bailey, of Albany." The locality 

 given was Southern Colorado. The females in smintheus in 

 certain localities are quite dark and it is a question whether 

 liermodur should have any standing. The specimen figured 

 is from the Henry Edwards collection, now in the American 

 Museum of Natural History, and is numbered 2791 in the Ed- 

 wards collection and bears label in Henry Edwards' writing 

 "Parnass. hermodur, type, Colorado." I am greatly indebted 

 to Dr. Frank E. Lutz for photographs of hermodur, tJwr and 

 mcnetriesii. In the collection of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia are specimens of these dark females 

 from Colorado and Montana. William H. Edwards figures a 

 large form of sminthcus under the name hermodur, in the 

 third volume of his Butterflies of North America. The 

 examples figured were from the Judith Mountains in Mon- 

 tana. These are evidently a larger form. Mr. W. H. Ed- 

 wards accepted the name hcrmodur to cover all the dark fe- 

 males. 



Parnassius eversmanni. Very little is known about this 

 species in America. The sexes are dissimilar in appearance 

 and have therefore been given different names. There are a 

 number of good figures of both sexes. Thor, described by 

 Henry Edwards, has been treated as a variety, but is only the 

 female. The females appear to differ more than the males. 

 I give a figure of the type of thor and it is now possible to 

 compare it with the figures given in the European literature. 

 The records for the species are meagre. William H. Edwards 

 records it from the Ramparts, Alaska, two hundred miles be- 

 low Fort Yukon, June 15th. Dr. W. J. Holland received nine 

 males and one female, taken in the mountains, between Mis- 



