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Volume 28, Number 4
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Brevard, North Carolina, but we did examine material from Table Rock State Park, Pickens County, South Carolina which is just 13 miles south of Brevard. We found these specimens to agree in every respect with Chermock's description of appalachia. A note of interest here is that the type locality, Connestee Falls area, is now undergoing drastic change. The area is being turned into a "resort" community and housing development. The drastic changes in the environment may well lead to the extinction of appalachia in that area. The specimens from Table Rock, South Carolina are of the same phenotype as those from Brevard and unless a colony is located closer than 13 miles to the type locality, the Table Rock populations may be the closest thing to topotypes available to the taxonomist. The specimens which we examined of nominate appalachia were from the following areas. South Carolina: Pickens, Dorchester and Charleston Counties. Georgia: Fannin and Cherokee Counties, and the Atlanta area. Florida: Pasco County. Mississippi: Pontotoc, Lee, Lafayette, Choctaw, Oktibbeha, and Winston Counties. All the specimens from these localities closely resembled the material from Table Rock except that the specimens from Pasco County, Florida averaged somewhat darker.
Our thanks go to the many persons who loaned us material for examination and who helped us with their ideas.
Literature Cited
Carde, R. T., A. M. Shapiro & H. K. Clench. 1970. Sibling species in the eury-dice group of Lethe (Lepidoptera; Satyridae). Psyche 77: 70-103.
Chermock, R. L. 1947. Notes on North American Enodias (Lepidoptera). En-tomol. News. 58: 29-35.
Brown, L. N. 1973. A population of Lethe appalachia (Satyridae) from West Central Florida. J. Lepid. Soc. 27: 238-239.
CHARLES RUDKIN COLLECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
IRVINE
The Charles Rudkin collection of Lepidoptera has been acquired by the Museum of Systematic Biology, University of California, Irvine. The collection contains over 10,000 mounted specimens (in modified Riker Mounts), primarily Rhopalocera. The collection is especially rich in California material, but also contains a fair amount of material from southeastern Arizona and the South Pacific. Nearly all specimens were collected from 1930-1945. Rudkin's field notebooks and other memorabilia will accompany the collection.
Larry J. Orsak, Museum of Systematic Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92664.