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as the label states, in Kanawha County. He tells me that having re- 

 turned the types of P. omaha, he fell inadvertently into the error of re- 

 describing the species three years afterwards under the new name. 



In my studies of the He-periidse I have been led to amass an exceed- 

 ingly large collection of the Hesperiidse of the world, and the other day 

 Dr. Barnes, who was with me spending a little time in the examination 

 of the Edwards Collection, called my attention to the obvious identity 

 of P. omaha with the East Indian Telicota mcesoides Butler, of which 

 I possess a large series of specimens. I had not noted the fact before, 

 but, when my attention was called to it, the positive identity of the two- 

 things became at once manifest. 



I strongly suspect that Pamphila omaha Edwards is not a native of 

 this country. If we had only to do with the types originally acquired 

 by Mr. Newman from William Wood I should have no hesitation what- 

 ever in saying that we are dealing with an error brought about by a mis- 

 taken locality-label. The assertion of Mr. Edwards that the type of 

 P. mingo was taken in Kanawha County is the great obstacle to such a 

 conclusion. Still it is possible that Mr. Edwards was mistaken also. 



Elwes in his recent Revision of the Oriental Hesperiidse, published 

 in the Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, Vol. XIV, p. 

 254, gives the synonymy of the species. I reproduce it here, intercalat- 

 ing the additional synonyms of American origin : 



Telicota dara Kollar. 



Hesperia dara Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir. Vol. IV, p. 455 (1848). 



Hesperia omiha W. H. Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. II, p. 21 (1863). 



Pamphila mcesa Moore, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 509, PI. XXV, fig. 9. 



Hesperia mingo W. H. Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. Vol. VI, p. 207 

 (1866). 



Pamphila Jlava Murray, Eat. Mo. Mag. XII, p. 4 (1875). 



Pamphila nitida Mabille, Pet. Nouv. II, p. 114 (1877). 



Pamphila taxilus Mabille, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. XXI, p. 38 (1878). 



Carterocephalus omaha Strecker, Butt, and Moths of N. A. p. 175 (1878). 



Pamphila trachala MABILLE, Pet. Nouv. II, p. 237 (1878). 



Pamphila mcesoides Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. Ser. 2, Zool. Vol. I, p_ 

 554 (1879). 



Padraona mcesoides Moore, Lep. Ceylon, I, p. 171, PI. LXXI, figs. 5, 5a (1881) 



Carterocephalus omaha Edwards, Butt, N. A. Appendix (1884). 



Telicota mcesoides Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 383, PI. XXXIV, fig. 24(1886). 



Padraona pseudotiKvsa Moore, Lep. Ceylon, I, p. 170 (188.1). 



Padraona dara Watson, Hesp. Ind; p. 57 (1891). 



Padraona dara Leech, Butt. China etc. p. 596, pi. XL, figs 13, 14, vars. 

 (1891). 



