March, 1898.] Holland : Notes on Lepidoptera. 59 



Pamphila hetarm Mabille, Compt. Rend. Soc. Ent. Belg. Ill, no. 31, p. 

 72(1883). 



Pamphila heLrrus STAUDINGER, Iris, II, p. 145 (1889). 



Padraona heUrtts Semper, Schmett. Philipp. p. 303, PI. XLIX, fig. 15, 9 

 (1892). 



Whether all of the several forms thus merged under Telicota dara 

 Kollar, are positively identical may perhaps be questioned a little, but 

 of the identity of T oinaha, with the form described as P. masoides by 

 Butler there is not a shadow of doubt. 



Mr. Elwes, in his revision of the Hesperiidse of the Oriental Region 

 referred to in the foregoing paragraph, describes as a new species a Teli- 

 cota to which he gives the name of simplex (Cf. p. 253, PI. XIX, Fig. 

 15, $ ). This is the same species which I described in the Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. XXV, p. 79, PI. IV, fig. 

 4, under the name Telicota sitbrubra. I do not much wonder that from 

 the wretched figure I gave, Elwes was unable to make out the species, 

 and I am thankful to him for having given so good a figure. Of course, 

 his name sinks as a synonym. Had he noted my description and asked 

 for information as he did in reference to some other species, I might 

 have helped him to avoid the error. His work is a splendid contribu- 

 tion to our knowledge of the subject, and minor errors of this sort are 

 likely to occur in the case of the most careful student. 



Much has been written concerning Limenitis floridensis Strecker, 

 and Limenitis eros W. H. Edwards. The latter author insists upon 

 the distinctness of his species from that named by Strecker. I cannot 

 agree with him. With the type of L. eros before me, and after having 

 carefully examined the insect named L. floridensis by Strecker, I am 

 sure of the identity of the two. Strecker's name has priority. 



What is Zeuzera canadensis Herrich-Schaeffer ? Under this name 

 the distinguished lepidopterist of Ratisbon named and figured a species 

 of Zeuzera, which, he informs us, came from " Quebeck " (sic). From 

 the time of the publication of his plate to this present hour no such 

 insect has turned up on American soil. I recently purchased, while in 

 London, a set of a Zeuzera from Natal, which is undoubtedly the insect 

 figured by Cramer as Noctua asylas (Pap. Exot., PI. 137, fig. C). Is 

 not this species of Cramer the same as the one figured by Herrich- 

 Schaeffer? It looks to me as if possibly Z. canadensis might be an 

 African form, and that we are dealing in this case again with a mistaken 

 locality-label. Quien sabe / * 



* I was tempted to drop a line to Dr. A. G. Butler of the British Museum re- 

 questing him to confer with Sir George F. Hampson and let me know whether my 



