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SATYRUS HOFFMANI. 
I was at first of the opinion that this might be S. Gabbii,* Edw., but Mr. Mead informs 
me that Mr. Edwards also has examples of it, taken by the Wheeler Expedition in 1871, and 
he says that it is a different thing from Gabbii • as I have no example of this latter, nor so 
far have I had any opportunity of comparing the two, but, on carefully reading Enwards’ 
description of Gabbii, I find there is, at any rate, one constant difference, that is in the ocellus 
nearest the costa, on primaries, being geminate in Hoffmani ; I have one 8 and ten $ examples, 
and in every one of the eleven is that ocellus double, but I am still inclined to believe it a 
segregated form of Gabbii, at least until I have opportunity to compare it with male and 
female examples of the latter. It is, to say the least, difficult to draw lines between Alope, 
Pegala, Nephele, Boopis and this one ; the ornamentation is about the same in all of them, in 
size they don’t vary much, the principal difference is in the shades of the ground color ; and, 
in suggesting this, I am but echoing the opinion of one of the greatest living Lepidopterists. 
June 10. 1873. 
I am afraid this No. (IV) will not be considered altogether orthodox by many of the 
Entomologists of the United States who persist in seeing nothing to please or interest them in 
an insect not found within the boundaries of our States or Territories, but in presenting the 
five figures numbered 2, 3 and 4 on plate IY, I am probably only anticipating, for some day 
or other Mexico will be annexed to, or swallowed up by this Government, and then what a 
trouble there will be among our patriotic entomologists when they will have to add so many 
more rare and costly species to their purely Federal collections. 
However, to make amends, the forthcoming July No. (V) will contain figures and de- 
scriptions of N. American Catoealida?, and will have as many species crowded- into the plate 
as the size of the sheet will admit. 
■^Described in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Yol. Ill, p. 193. (1870.) 
