a LG THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGISL. 
If we apply similar considerations to several others of Mr. Scudders 
genera, we shall remove in great part what is objectionable, and bizarre ; 
(e. g., the use of Papilio for Van. antiopa,) remembering that the older 
authors always cited, as a matter of duty, all previously published names, 
even without note of identification, and that therefore they are not to be. 
held liable for a// the contents of their genera. Without questioning any 
of Mr. Scudder’s statements on page 37, with regard to the use of the 
name Papilio, we yet know that Linnaeus applied it to his Agwztes first. 
Schrank’s wide ‘‘limitation” can, then, have no priority in reason, nor - 
the new restriction by Mr. Scudder against a well established use for a 
genus of which Papilio machaon is the conceded type. Let us disintegrate 
Papilio quickly ; it must sorely need it that such means should be pre- 
scribed for the end. i 
We may differ with Mr. Scudder occasionally on matters of synonomy 
(e. g., Thecla calanus and inorata,) but we follow him admiringly in his 
conscientious generic definitions, and are ever ready to sink the critic in 
the disciple. 
DESCRIPTION OF A REMARKABLE VARIETY OF LIMENITIS 
MISIPPUS. : 
BY THEODORE L. MEAD, NEW YORK. 
While in the Catskill Mountains this summer, L met with a very curious 
variety of Z. Misippus in which the conspicuous black stripe crossing the 
secondaries was altogether absent, and the corresponding mark on the 
primaries only indicated by a dusky cloud extending to the median ner. 
vule and enclosing no white spots. On the underside the differences 
remain the same. In the ordinary type, there is a whitish cloud around 
the cross stripe. In the variety under consideration this is quite distinct. 
The marginal row of greenish lunules is obsolete, but the submarginal 
white ones are enlarged so as to leave no black between the lunules and 
the buff ground-color on the secondaries, and but little on the primaries. 
On the upper surface, these lunules are rather large on the fore wings, but 
otherwise as in the usual type. The specimen was a female. 
It is noticeable that this variety is a nearer approach, in general 
appearance, to D. Archippus, which, as is well known, enjoys almost entire 
immunity from ordinary foes. We may fairly assume that had not the 
Entomological collector intervened as an unexpected factor in the problem 
