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Psyche 7:244, 1894.

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but none above. The epigynum consists of the slightest doubt as to what species it is. a shallow cavity divided behind by a septum Mr. Bean's paper is a very valuable one, but which is connected with the posterior ridge, in my opinion there is but one key to the in front are two transverse lines and further solution of all such problems in the Rhopa- in front the usual anterior lobe, behind each locera, and that is the study of many indi- side appears an oblique convoluted body vidual specimens representing the twtire beneath the surface, and a curved ridge. geographical distribution. If it were possible to get many series of specimens of' hecla, One specimen of this fine species
elis, and meadii from the entire territory, from Punta Gorda, Florida; collected
in a line, from the home of the Arctic high- by Mrs. Annie T. Slosson.
lander to New Mexico, we would be able
to solve the problen~. I am inclined to
think that elis will be found to have a
COLIAS HECLA. greater range than is at present supposed. To show my opinion of the effect of distribu- Mr. Bean in an interesting paper in the
tion, I think whcrc a species covers consid- April Psyche on it A Comparison of Coltas erable territory that it would bequite possible kecia with Colias medi and Colias eh's" in many instance's for one of experience in seems to think I made a blunder in describ- ~uch studies to tell almost exactly from ing a pallid Q form of hecla. It appears to me quite illogical for Mr. Bean to
theorize in regard to the lesser degree of variation in hecla, and because the discovery of a pallid female somewhat interferes with these theories, to assume that the identifica- tion of the pallid female is probably an error. The specimen in question came
from Northern Greenland, is bright, beauti- ful and faultlessly perfect, and there is not whence it came. By using measurements,
etc., I think it would not be difficult to prove the Lapland heck quite distinct from the Greenland one, but get a series repre- senting the intervening territory and your new species will probably fall into the
second line. I should also state that Colias wastes, which Mr. Bean thinks I mistook for hecla, is not found in Greenland.
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