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[Sept.-Dee. 
does for ar gyro gnomon anna. Underside: shiny pale greyish 
white with conspicuous pale blue basal scaling in secondaries 
and quite distinct extradiscal spotting in primaries, but with 
an almost total lack of all other markings so that except for a 
gleam of aquamarine and a hint of fulvous in the cubital inter- 
spaces the secondaries seem quite spotless to the naked eye. 
Eastward from Manitoba, presumably through Northern On- 
tario and Quebec, scudderi scudderi intergrades into a Labrador 
form which differs from the typical mainly in a reduction of 
size. This is probably the scudderi of Moschler (1874, Ent. 
Zeit. Stettin 35: 155-156) which judging by that author’s naive 
but clear description is not the “ scudderi ” of Scudder although 
of course the latter form may reach much further North than is 
so far authentically known. Of this small scudderi (generally 
labelled “aster” in collections) I have Labrador specimens from 
“Hopedale” and “Sawbill.” Whatever may be the “aster” from 
“Labrador” the armature of which is figured by Chapman 
(1917, op. cit. pi. 15, fig. 45-46), it belongs to melissa. The 
Newfoundland aster Edwards, 1882, Can. Ent. 14:194-195 
(1898 Holland, op. cit.: 266, pi. 30, fig. 40, 46, 47) is presum- 
ably the same Little Blue Argus that had been discovered on 
Carbonear Isl. by Gosse in 1834. Of this I have only two 
(white, sparsely but distinctly spotted underside) females 
(“Salmonier”) which until I see the types I cannot assign to 
scudderi. Of the Nova Scotian empetri Freeman (1938, Can. 
Ent. 70:62; et 1943, ibid., 75:37), which shows in the under- 
side a striking development of the fuscous spotting upon a grey- 
ish-fawn ground, I have as yet only dissected one paratype 
(Clench Coll.) and in this specimen one important genitalic 
character seems about to slip out of the scudderi specific series. 6 
scudderi lotis Lintner. 
(1878, 30th Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1876:169; non 
lotis Lintn. auct.) 
Under this name I propose to group various integrading 
forms of the Southern scudderi section. They all disclose on 
the underside a neater development of the caudce pavonis and, 
in some cases, an inclination to fawn in the ground color. In 
6 Dr. T. N. Freeman has very kindly provided me now with a number of 
specimens of empetri. Although connected specifically with scudderi , it ex- 
hibits certain curious (reversional?) characters echoed by the most primitive 
of the Central Asiatic forms. 
