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Bruce collected fumosa at Estes Park, Larimer Co., Colorado 
(Edwards 1897, p. 197). The identities of the Indiana, Minnesota, 
and Wisconsin specimens noted above were not checked by the 
genitalia, and are somewhat uncertain. 
Lethe appalachia R. L. Chermock 
Lethe (Enodia) eurydice appalachia R. L. Chermock 1947, Ent. News 58: 
29; type locality Conestee Falls, North Carolina; type in R. L. 
Chermock collection, not seen. 
Lethe fumosus appalachia: dos Passos 1969, J. New York Ent. Soc. 77: 121. 
Taxonomic History. — Unmistakable figures of appalachia appear in 
three older works under other names. None of these has any taxo- 
nomic significance. Boisduval and Le Conte (1829) figure a male 
appalachia with an ambiguous female as Satyrus canthus (pi. 60). 
Edwards (1897) figures a female appalachia (pi. 26, figs. 3, 4) 
with a normal male eurydice (figs. 1,2) as Satyrodes canthus , along 
with a dark male which is probably also eurydice but might be 
fumosa (fig. 5). Denton (1900) figures an ambiguous specimen 
(p. 217), an eurydice (p. 218), and an appalachia (p. 219), all as 
N eonympha canthus. 
Dos Passos (1969) erred in sinking appalachia to “fumosus.” 
There is no evidence for his statement that “fumosus and appalachia 
occur at opposite ends of a dine.” 
Dos Passos lists ab. boweri F. H. Chermock under appalachia. 
It cannot be identified to species by the description, and the type 
has not been found ; it is not in the Carnegie Museum, where dos 
Passos recorded it. We have placed boweri provisionally in the 
synonymy of eurydice because that species is considered more likely 
from the type locality, Port Hope, Ontario. However, a specimen 
of appalachia with no ocelli on the forewings above, labeled “Bowie, 
Md./ V-29-45/DDT experiment,” is in the U.S. National Museum. 
At any rate, the name is clearly infrasubspecific and has no standing. 
Summary of Characters. — Lethe appalachia differs from both sub- 
species of eurydice in being grayish or mousy brown above (blackish 
when fresh) and somewhat purplish or lilac-tinged beneath; the 
postmedial lines rounded, with only slight indentations. The male 
valve is less clearly 4-sided in lateral view, and the tegumen is 
dorsally flattened. The larval head capsule bears side-stripes not 
reaching below the bases of the horns. 
Distribution (fig. 22). — Material examined: 
Florida: Jefferson Co.: Monticello, x.4.14 (paratype) (amnh) 
