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Nearctic Forms of Lycceides 
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other words they approach nearer to the conventional type of 
the Lycseides, although generally the exiguity of the ornamental 
band and the scudderi character of the white arches give them 
away. Lotis Lintner, which has nothing to do with the “ lotis ” 
figured by Wright, Barnes-McDunnough, Comstock and Hol- 
land (in the case of Wright, 1906, op. cit ., fig. 387, it is a male 
anna coupled with the female of a not even congeneric species, 
and in the case of Holland, 1930, op. cit., pi. 66, fig. 18-20, a 
fairly typical metis sa), seems to be known only in two speci- 
mens: a female labelled “L. Lota Lintn. 5668 Type” in the 
Lintner coll., which is an unquestionable scudderi female of 
the more Southern “brown” sort, and a male labelled “4878 
Mendocino, California” and “No. 6139 coll. Hy. Edwards Lyc. 
Lotis Lintn.” in the Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. This unique male, 
except for showing a trace of fulvous subterminally, in the pri- 
maries underside, fits in exactly with Lintner’s really admirable 
description. The data he gives is: “Mendocino, California. 
Two examples. Coll, of W. H. Edwards.” The male type is 
apparently lost. The Hy. Edwards specimen is the one men- 
tioned (but not figured) by Barnes and McDunnough (1916, 
op. cit.: 169, lin. 12, 13), and having dissected it I found as ex- 
pected from its appearance, that it was conspecific with scudderi. 
I have various forms of scudderi lotis, from Idaho (“Hey- 
burn Pk”), Montana (“Martina,” “Uranus Peak”), Wyo- 
ming (“Yellowstone,” “Jackson Lake,” “Jackson Hole”), 
Colorado (“Telluride,” “San Isabel Forest”) and “?N.M.” 
The Jackson and Telluride series have a curious increase in the 
F suggestive of a slight approach to melissa though otherwise 
typical scudderi. 
“Black border” (see p. 89) specimens (i e. similar in this to 
the Alberta and B. C. ar gyro gnomon) are referable to atraprce- 
textus Field (1939, Journ. Kansas Ent. Soc. 12(4): 135). I have 
such dark specimens from Idaho (“Priest R.”) and Montana 
(“King’s Hill”), with intergrades. In the case of scudderi the 
interest of this variation lies in its producing the nearest ap- 
proach known to a lightish form of the normally very dark 
cleobis Bremer (from Sayan Mts.). 7 
7 Other Palearctic forms (all from Turkestan) which reveal a scudderi armature 
(but have been assigned to ismenias ) are: dschagatai (PGrum Grsh., 1890) 
Stempffer, 1931; cegina (PGrum Grsh., 1891; nec Leech, 1894, nec Seitz, 1909, 
nec Oberthur, 1910) Forster, 1936, and buchara Forster, 1936 (? dschagatai Grum 
Grsh.) . 
