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NOTES, NEW SPECIES, ETC. 
Adelpha containing seven species of the -insects more familiarly known as, and now embraced in Boisduval’s genus Heterochroa, and one 
Nymphidium. Coitus 2, Neptis, contains two astonishingly dissimilar insects generically, though superficially bearing some resemblance : 
the Eresia (Pap.) Nauplia, Linn., and Olina (Pap.) Emilia, Cram. Coitus 4, Metamorpha, (defined as having “the wings very oddly 
formed, grandly decorated with green spots,”) is composed of Vic'orina Sulspitia, Cram., V. Sleneles, L., and Colcenis Dido, L., whilst 
Colcenis Delila and Alcionea are put not only in another coitus, but in another stirps, with some forty coitus between them and 0. Dido . 
But, after all, there is this one most important difference between Hubner and his present imitators, that though his writings 
were fanciful he gave most accurate and reliable figures of his species, which they do not. 
It is unfortunate, most unfortunate, that owing to the existence of the mutual admiration society which embraces so many of the 
American Lepidopterists, there has been but little protest against the phantasms of the authors alluded to ; there is no fear that the 
scientists of Europe will at their diction adopt such Laputian nomenclature, but there are here many beginners and less advanced 
students who have, unhappily, partly adopted the style of nomenclature of these Chains of Lepidopterology, as their catalogues, lists, 
etc., are published in cheap periodicals, easily obtainable, whilst the solid, real work of the older as well as the present standard authors 
on entomological science are not so easily accessible, which is the more to be regretted, as though Scudder and Grote are actuated by 
widely different motives in their writings, still both produce the same pernicious results; Seudder’s lists, theories, etc., seem to be gotten 
up to show what amount of time and labor one human being is capable of completely wasting; whilst, were it not for his overweening 
egotism, it might possibly occur to Mr. Grote that there was some other object in publishing catalogues, etc., than that of the endless 
repetition of the name of the compiler. 
NOTES, NEW SPECIES, ETC. 
Samia Ceanothi is the correct name of the Satumia fig. 2, Plate XII. It was fully described by Dr. Herman Behr in Proceed- 
ings California Acad. Nat. Sc., Vol. I, p. 47, April, 30, 1855; the author at the same time presented the Academy with a drawing of the 
insect, as well as a specimen of the cocoon, remarking that it was found on Ceanothus thyrsiflorus, also on a Rhamnus and a Photinus, and 
that it was likely to prove valuable. Again, on pages 68-69 (1. c.), Aug. 27, 1855, in recording donations to the Cabinet of the Academy, 
is the following: “From Dr. Behr, a specimen of the Cal. Silk Worm ( Satumia Ceanothi, Behr).” 
Ten years later Grote, entirely ignoring the above description, redescribed the species as Platysamia Californica in a foot-note in a 
a paper on “Bombycidse of Cuba” in Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Yol. Y, p. 229, Dec., 1865. At the conclusion of his description he adds: 
“It is not impossible that this species may be ‘Satumia Euryale,’ Boisd. ; if so, this latter name cannot obtain, since it has not, as far as 
I am aware, been sanctioned by any description.” 
San eta simplicitas ! 
Lyclena Catalina. Dr. Behr informs me that his Lyccena Lorquinida identical with this species; its citations are thus: 
Lyccena Catalina, Reakirt, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc., Phila., p. 244 (1866). 
Lyccena Lorquini, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc., Vol. Ill, p. 280 (1867). 
Lyccena Rhcea, Boisduval, Lep. Cal., p. 51 (1869). 
Lyccena Daunia, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. Ill, p. 272 (1871). 
Lyc.ena Rapahoe, Reakirt. I have compared the types of this species with a large number of examples of Lyc. Icarioides, and 
can come to no other conclusion than that they are the same. Dr. Behr writes me that Ly. Rapahoe as figured in this work is identical 
with L. Daedalus, in which event the nomenclature of the species would be 
Lyclena Icarioides, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 297 (1852). 
Lyccena Rapahoe, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc., Phila., Yol. Yl, p. 146 (1866). 
Lyccena, Dcedalus, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sc., Vel. Ill, p. 280 (1867). 
Lyc.ena Pheres, Bell., and L. Evius, Bdl. Dr. Behr suggests maybe local varieties of the same species, as he has intermediate 
examples ; in my own cabinet are also a number of the latter, showing various gradations from one form to the other, and I have no doubt 
but Dr. Behr’s surmise is correct. 
Lyccena Optilete Enoch. (Papilio O.) Beit. Ins. Ges., I, p. 76, t. 5 (1781).— This species may be added to the N. Am. 
fauna, as through the kindness of mine honored friend, Dr. Behr, I have received several examples that were taken in Alaska ; they 
present no ditl'erence whatever from the European examples ; it is a species having a wide range, being found in Germany, Russia and 
Siberia. 
Sphinx Strobi, Bdl., which has been accredited to California, I have received from South Africa. It belongs to the same 
group as S. Coniferarum, Pinastri, etc. 
Through the kindness of Frof. C. V. Riley I have examined the plates of Sphingidse recently published by Dr. Boisduval two 
new ones from N. America are figured in both imago and larvae under the names of Sphinx Catalpce, Bdl., and S. Cvpressi, Bdl., the lat- 
ter from Georgia evidently belonging to the Pinastri group. Prof. Riley has had the larvae of S. Catalpce, but has not so far, i’ believe, 
been successful in rearing it. 
Melin^ea Dora, N. S. 
Expands 3f inches. Head black, a yellow dorsal line and yellow points at the eyes ; antenme yellow, except a short space 
towards the head where they are black ; body above brown, below yellow ; on thorax a yellow central dorsal line. Inner half of pri- 
maries brownish red ; a yellow, somewhat irregular bar extending from below middle of exterior margin diagonally to middle'of costa 
exterior to this band the wing is black ; in the discoidal cell is an irregular black mark, and another at end of the cell joins the yellow 
band, this latter is also joined inwardly by another irregular black mark reaching from the middle to the exterior margin of wim* • 
between this mark and the one in the discoidal cell is a black spot ; a black dash at base of wing ; on costa a black streak and another 
longer, broader one at inner margin, extending from base to half the length of the wing. Secondaries brownish red, from middle of ex- 
terior margin to apex very narrowly margined with black, widest at veins ; beneath as above, but the black marks of primaries 
smaller ; base of secondaries yellow, accompanied with a short black streak ; a small black spot in discoidal cell. I received this ex- 
ample from Mr. Reakirt, whose MSS. name I have retained for it ; its locality was Esmeraldus. Allied closely to the lately de- 
scribed M. Ribbei, Staudinger, but differs from it in the absence of all spots on the black apical part of primaries, in the absence of the 
yellow spot at inner angle, in the absence of the broad black margin of outer half of interior margin, and in the presence of the black 
dash on inner half of same; and on reverse of secondaries, in the position of the black spot, which is within the discoidal cell in ours 
and outside of it in Staudinger’s species ; the latter is from Central Am. To its author I am indebted for my examples. 
It has been accurately figured by Mr. Gustav Weymer in the Stett. Entom. Zeit. (1875). Taf. II, fig. 4. 
