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ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES. 
In colour and general appearance, though not in size and detail, it strongly reminds one of the European Puerpera.* 
0 A TOC A I. A Perihta, Henry Edwards, MSS. 
Expands 21 inches. Very close to Faustina, but the primaries are of a mbro bluish tinge, having none of the yellowish cast of that 
species; the transverse lines arc heavier, and there is generally more sprinkling of black atoms throughout. The apices of the secon- 
daries of Faustina are partly rosy, in this they are entirely white. San Mateo County, California. 
There is also another example, much mutilated, which is so close to Irene, Bohr, that I should have considered it identical had it 
not been for the circumstance that Dr. Bohr’s species has a good sized white apical spot on tip of secondaries, whilst in the example in 
question the black marginal band tills out the whole apex to the fringe. Also the mesial band in this example is narrower, although 
that is not necessarily specific, as in some of my examples of C. Nupta this band is only one-half the width that it is in other examples. 
1 have returned this example to Mr. Edwards for his further examination, considering that as he discovered it, and is, moreover, work- 
ing up the Determent of the Far West, it is only simple justice that he should name it. Well knowing, at the same time, that it will 
not in his hands, at least, be degraded with such associations as Browniana, Snuggsiensis or Tompkinsii. Shades of the mighty! with 
what names do some of the American Entomologists associate Humboldt, Cuvier and Latreille. It remindeth one not of the lamb and lion 
lying down together, but of an illustration I once saw, where a small poodle, with closely-shaved hind quarters, was complacently 
gazing on the caged monarch of the forest. 
Among a large quantity of material captured in Texas by Mr. J. Boll, and lately received by me, were two examples of Colias 
Chrysotheme 9> which after the most carefnl comparison I found to agree exactly with the large suite of European specimens in 
my cabinet. There is the same suffusion of greyish atoms on upper surface of secondaries, and the same heavy greenish on under 
surface ; they are the same size as the European examples, and agree with them throughout, to the utmost minutiae of shade and mark- 
ing, and are as distinct from Eurylheme f and its var. KeewaydinX as they are from Aurora $ or Pyrrothoe. || Dr. Boisduval long since 
credited this species to N. America, but the American Lepidopterists have united in erroneously maintaining that Eurytheme was the 
insect he had in view, and that Chrysotheme was not found here at all. 
* Giorna, Cal. Ent., Torina, 1791. 
f Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 286, (1852). 
+ Edwards, Butt. N. Am., Colias 4, (1869). 
g Esper, Schmett. I, 2, t. 83, (1783). 
|| Hubner, Sammi. Ex. Schmett., (1816-1836). 
August, 1874. 
