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distinct, and not, as some authors have suggested, forms of the same species.
Acknowledgment
I thank C. L. Remington for allowing me to borrow and dissect the genitalia described and figured here.
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Journal of the Lepidopterists Society 40(2), 1986, 106
GENERAL NOTE
SMALL-NICOLAY COLLECTION TO SMITHSONIAN
The National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) is receiving the G. B. Small, Jr.-Col. S. S. Nicolay Collection of New World Butterflies. The scientific value of the collection is inestimable. It contains more than 3,800 species including about 450 undescribed taxa. Its representation and identification of New World Hesperiidae, Lycae-nidae, and Riodinidae are now better than that in most museums. Coverage of Panama is approximately 98% complete, making its butterfly fauna better known than that of any other continental neotropical country. Geographically variable species, particularly from Panama, are represented by long series from many localities. Because so much neotropical forest has been destroyed, many of these specimens represent a unique record of the original fauna. Besides Panama, the collection is rich in material from Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, and the United States.
The Small-Nicolay Collection contains 98,500 specimens, of which more than 42,500 are spread. There are 237 paratypes.
Lepidopterists who expect to be in the Washington, D.C., area may visit the Smithsonian and examine the collection by prearrangement.
Robert K. Robbins and J. F. Gates Clarke, Department of Entomology, MRC NHB 127, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560.
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