Entomological News, and Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (Volume 27)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1916. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... this Californian species were noted and both were figured .by Mr. Edwards; the one he called clarius is not the European clarius and he subsequently changed the name to baldur Edwards. Baldur is immaculate on the secondaries above except for the two red spots. Clodins] has a submarginal line of curved lines parallel to the margin. The females of the two forms differ very little, if at all, from each other. Menetriesii Henry Edwards differs very little from the normal form. From the figure of the type it will be noted that the two red spots on the upperside of the secondaries are a trifle smaller than in the general run of specimens. It is a rather common occurrence to find that red and yellow in insects are interchangeable and in some of the species of Parnassius the spots may be either red or yellow. Dyar has called the clodius with yellow spots, altaurus. I believe the name should be dropped. Workers in some of the other orders do not believe in naming color phases. Mr. Oberthur has described and figured a remarkable aberration of clodius under the name lorquini. There is a dark border to the primaries and two black dashes in the cell, one near the middle and the other at the end. The secondaries are immaculate above. The writer described a Parnassius under the name immaculota which may be an aberration of clodius. It was taken July 30th, 1905, by Mr. J. W. Coxey, on the Fire Hole River, near Old Faithful Geyser, in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. H. Stichel in 1907 published a revision of the Parnassinae;n the Genera Insectorum, and introduces some new names for American variations. He gives the name claudianus to specimens from the coast region of Washington, British Columbia and Vancouver Island. These do not differ in any way from specimens found ...