Additions: LYCAENIDAE. By Dr. M. Draudt. 1043 



the proximal angle and a stripe at the proximal margin; it might be taken as a scent-scale spot, if such 

 formations would not be uncommon in this genus. The under surface resembles that of plantes (120 Ac), 

 but the ground- colour is darker and the light band of the forewing is complete and extends into the apex 

 of the M'ing, expanding near the proximal angle into a light triangle. 



Lycaenidae. 



The ,, Check-List" having in the meantime been published by Wm. Barnes and Mc. Dtjnnotjgh, as 

 well as personal reports by Mr. W. T. M. Forbes, Ithaca, N. Y., to whom we are greatly indebted, neces.si- 

 tates some alterations in the elaboration of the North American Lycaenidae. 



Th. publica Rob. is very much like the $ of paphia, but it has narrower wings; the black distal publica. 

 margm of the forewing is narrower and turns proximad on the veins in a dentate shape ; the tail-appendage on 

 the 1st median vein is broader and at the borders broadly covered with green lustrous scales. Beneath on 

 the forewmg the green marginal scaling is reduced, the black median band of the hindwing is narrower, irre- 

 gularly defined, in the middle broader than in front, not sharply angled, but softly bent, the distal parallel 

 band is absent, but instead there are two black submarginal cucullate spots, behind them yellowish-green- 

 ish dusting. Abdomen beneath loam-coloured yellow. According to 1 $ from West Colombia (Rio Mag- 

 dalena). — This form is to be inserted on p. 746 behind pajMa. 



Th. polios Cook d- Wts. (p. 761) is not a synonym to mossi. The latter species is uniformly choco- 

 late-brown above, whereas polios is browner towards the margin on the hindwing. On the under surface the 

 distal margm of the hindwing of mossi is contrastingly red-brown with six more or less distinctly visible, 

 small internerval spots, whereas the forewing has no marginal part contrasting by a different colour. In 

 polios the hindwing shows a broad light grey distal-marginal part, lighter than in irus, and the forewing 

 exhibits a whitish, 1 mm broad margin before the fringes, polios originates from Maine and Colorado, inossi 

 from the western half of the States and from Pennsylvania. 



Th. dumetonmi Bsd. (p. 763). The typical form in the ^ exhibits a blackish grey upper siurface, 

 occasionally tinted with a faint brownish red, in the $ more distinct. Beneath the sexes are similar, wath 

 rows of white at least on the hindwing, in about 90 percent on the forewings and hindwings. Eange: Cali- 

 fornia. — f. perplexa Barnes and Benjamin, a geographical race from San Diego (California), differs by perplexa. 

 the entire or almost entire absence of the small white spots beneath; the coppery grey area at the proximal 

 margin of the forewing almost extends to the costal margin and parts a green basal area from the green 

 apical area; the fringes are not quite purely white. It was usually mixed up with the Colorado-race of 

 apama and the sheridanii-Tace from Utah. 



C. af finis (p. 763) in both sexes shows a constant red-brown ground-colour above; the forewmg ex- 

 hibits beneath at the proximal margin only a slight darker shade. Fringes distally purely white. 



C. apama (p. 763) is in the typical race from Arizona above grey, often with an intense coppery tint, 

 in the $ in the disc coppery red-brown, with fine black veins. The under surface in the coloiu: resembles 

 the race perplexa of dumetorum, the white markings are still more prominent and usually bordered with a ■ 

 red-brown band. The white band of the hindwing consists of white, cresentiform confluent spots, in the 

 centre very much distally angled, proximally bordered with black, behind it with a red-bro\^'n band. Fringes 

 quite dark, at the anal angle of the hindwing white. — f. homoperplexa Barnes and Benjamin is the race homoper- 

 from Colorado. Above the SS ^re redder than any other siJecies or race except affinis from which it is v^exa. 



easily discernible by the coppery or red-brown spot on the forewing beneath extending from the proximal 

 margin to the costal margin. Beneath the white markings bordered with black and brown are reduced to 

 single small spots, and may occasionally disappear altogether. 



G. sheridanii in the typical form shows dark grey wings above and is beneath darker green than 

 the other species; both wings are beneath crossed by bands of small white punctiform spots, on the forewing 

 almost, on the hindwing entirely confluent, so that they are here no more discernible as single dots, proxi- 

 mally bordered by a distinct black line. Fringes purely white. Denver (Colorado). — f. neoperplexa Barnes neopcr- 

 and Benjamin is the race from Utah which is above lighter grey and does not exhibit any purely white ple.va. 



fringes. Beneath the white dots are reduced, on the forewing occasionally disappearing altogether, on the 

 hindwing forming a thin line. 



C. xami (= blenina) (p. 772), as well as rhodope, loki, spinetorum, johnsoni, castalis, siva and nelsoni 

 ought to be placed with damon (p. 798) together into the subordinate genus Mitowra: siva Edw. must be 

 eliminated as a synonym to xami, the type is very closely allied to nelsonii or its form m-uirii, to which it 

 may belong as a synonym according to Barnes and Benjamin. — castalis belongs to damon and has the 

 priority of its form discoidalis Skinn. (p. 798). We add another form to it : r. patersonia Brehme, a seasonal patersonia. 

 form, being dark sooty brown $$. 



