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Nearctic Forms of Lycceides 
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Nat. Sci. Phil. 1861: 163; Strecker, 1874, Lep.: 88, pi. 10, 
fig. 4, male, fig. 5., female; Stempffer, 1933, Bull. Soc. Ent. 
France 102: 111, fig. 2, male genit.). 4 
“Typical” fairly weak anna is represented by series from 
California (seven stations), Nevada and Oregon. A stronger 
anna comes from “Glacier Pt.” (it is figured by Wright, 1906, 
Butt. W. Cst, fig. 384, anna ), and a form of anna with all mark- 
ings as well developed as in any Lycceides is provided by a pair 
from “Pt. Arena,” Mendocino Co. What I suppose is ricei 
Cross (1937, Pan-Pacific Ent. 13:88) is represented by a small, 
very weak underside anna form with a uniformly brown female 
from Oregon (“Kirk”) and by a series without locality data 
mislabeled “ annetta .” A form from “Yakima R.” and another 
from “Vancouver Isl.” may be also placed under anna. 
The other, B group with fawn or whitish fawn underside, 
represented by long series, has apparently never been detected 
before and may eventually require a subspecific name to coun- 
terbalance the anna group. Of B1 I have a series from Wash- 
ington (“Brewster”): these specimens, if I am American- 
minded, look like unusually dingy or dusty underside “ anna ” 
and if I am European-minded, curiously resemble certain weak 
Swiss forms. Of B2 I have series from Brit. Col. (“B.C.,” 
“Fernie,” “Cranbrook,” “Michel,” “Landsdowne”) and from 
Alberta (“Calgary,” “Didsbury,” “Carbon,” “Laggan”), dark- 
ish “black-border” specimens (see above, discussion of Lycceides 
pattern), with an underside resembling series of ar gyro gnomon 
singularis Heydemann, 1932, and other strong W. European 
races. 
Lycaeides argyrognomon, trans. ad scudderi Edwards 
I have not yet examined Edwards’ specimens of kodiak 
Edwards (1870, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 3:20). Judging by its 
O.D. and the colored photographs professing to illustrate it 
(Wright, 1906, op. cit ., fig. 365; Holland, 1930, Butt. Bk. pi. 
66, fig. 14, 15), it seems somewhat similar to what I have as 
“ kodiak ” from Alaska (“McKinley”). 
In this series a twofold individual variation (on the general 
basis of a dingy underside tone with faint dull fulvous lunules) 
4 In the case of this form, as in that of the nom. sp. argyrognomon and 
melissa , I give only the most pertinent bibliographic data. A fuller synonymy, as 
well as complete data and acknowledgments in regard to the series of specimens 
mentioned here, will be given in the main work. 
