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Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society
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mi. S of La Grande, 10/vi/65 (Goeden); Elgin, 18/viii/37 (Jewett). Wallowa Co.: Wallowa L., 25/vii/64 (Shepard); Horse Cr., 28/vi/64 (Shepard). Wasco Co.: nr. Sherar Falls, 17/v/53 (Jewett); Juniper Flat, 26/V/64 (Newcomer); nr. Tygh Valley, 20/vi/64 (Newcomer); Wapanitia, 10/vi/57, 16/vi/61 (Aldrich); Maupin, 5/ix/60 (Woodley). Wheeler Co.: Mitchell, 17/v/62 (Goeden); Horseshoe Cr., 8/vi/61 (Bauer).
Literature Cited
Brown, F. M., 1964. The types of satyrid butterflies described by William Henry
Edwards. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 90: 323-413, Davenport, D., 1941. The butterflies of the satyrid genus Coenonympha. Bull.
Mus. Comp. Zool., 87 (4): 215-349. Edwards, W. H., 1871. Description of new species of diurnal Lepidoptera found
within the United States, (ctd.). Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, 3: 213. 1881. Coenonympha elko. Canad. Ent., 13: 57-58. Field, W. D., 1937. A new seasonal form of Coenonympha ampelos Edwards
(Lepid.: Satyridae). Canad. Ent., 69: 249-250.
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BOOK REVIEW
A LIST OF THE BUTTERFLIES OF MALAWI, by D. Gifford, 1965. The Society of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, Africa. 151 pp., 12 figs., 9 colored plates, 1 map. 50 shilling sterling (=$7.00).
This is the first comprehensive list of the butterflies of Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) ever compiled and is therefore an important contribution to knowledge of the African fauna. The author, now with the University of Edinburgh, spent five years in Malawi as a forester and has a good understanding of the local ecology and butterflies.
The book is arranged as a running key to facilitate identification, a scheme that can be disasterous: in this case it is excellent. Distributional and bibliographic data are given for each of the 531 species listed. The valvae of 12 species of Lycaenidae are figured and there are good colored photographs of about 142 species from all families. The index and bibliography running to 20 pages add greatly to the value of this book as a reference.
Gifford has taken the proper step by reducing most names of sexual and seasonal variants, genetic oddities and "forms" to treatment in the discussion paragraphs, though a few persist in the main list. The revi-
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sionary work of Evans for the Hesperiidae, Klots for the Pieridae and Stempffer for the Lycaenidae have been followed; nomenclature in the Papilionidae and Nymphalidae has also been brought reasonably well up to date.
The type faces are readable, though a little small, and careful editing is evident. This book should be in the hands of all lepidopterists and of all those interested in the African fauna. It may be obtained by sending the remittance to Mr. John D. Handman, Secretary, the Society of Malawi, Box 449, Blantyre, Malawi, Africa.
R. M. Fox, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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SYNONYMY OF LEUCOPHLEBIA LIN EAT A BRUNNEA (SPHINGIDAE)
Leucophlebia lineata brunnea was described in 1915 by A. Closs1 from Formosa. In 1936 B. Preston Clark, also from Formosa, described Leucophlebia lineata formosana.2 The type of the former is deposited in the collection of the "Deutsches Entomologisches Institut" in Eberswalde (German Democratic Republic); the type of the latter, with the rest of Clark's worldwide sphingid collection, in the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In order to be sure that the types are representative of one and the same population, the type of brunnea was compared in Pittsburgh by the writer with the type of formosana. Both were found to represent the same entity.
The name Leucophlebia lineata formosana B. P. Clark, therefore, is synonymous with Leucophlebia lineata brunnea Closs.
I wish to thank Dr. G. Friese, German Entomological Institute, for having effected the loan of the type specimen of brunnea to me.
J. C. E. Riotte, Royal Ontario Museum, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
1 Closs, A., 1915. H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeute, Sphingidae (Lep.). Suplementa Entomolo-gica, 4: 1-3 (Berlin).
2 Clark, B. P., 1936. Description of twenty-four new Sphingidae and notes concerning two others. Proceedings of the New England Zoological Club, XV: 71-91 (Cambridge, Mass.).
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