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SYNOPSIS OF NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 
Abbot that nothing less direct than Mr. Scudder’s statement would establish the 
fact that it was intended to be a copy. For forty years the species has puzzled 
lepidopterists, nothing like that plate having been seen in nature. It seems to me 
beyond doubt in such case that no right can attach to the description or plate in 
Boisduval and Leconte, and that the name given by Harris should be retained. 
Phyciodes Ismeria. — The case of this species is parallel to that of Liparops, 
and we are now told that the figures in Boisduval and Leconte are meant to repre- 
sent Carlota, Reakirt. These figures likewise purport to be copies from Abbot, but 
give no idea whatever of the butterfly. The description is made up in same man- 
ner as that of Liparops, and on same grounds I think the name Ismeria should 
be discarded and Carlota retained. 
There are enumerated in the Synopsis 509 species, of which, previous to 1852, 
137 were known to belong to the then United States and British America. Be- 
tween 1852 and 1860, 61 species were added, and since 1860, 311. 
