SYNONYMIC NOTES ON AGLAIS MILBERTI (GODART) WITH THE DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES. (LEPIDOPTERA-NYMPHALIDAE)

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Vanessa milberti Godart was described (1819, Enc. Meth. 9: 307, No. 25) from a specimen sent to the Paris Museum by the French painter and naturalist, Milbert, who visited the United States on one or more occasions early in the nineteenth century. Last summer, while in Paris, the type was photographed through the kindness of Dr. Le Cerf and this is reproduced on Plate 4, fig. I. Dr. Le Cerf informed the writer that the label was in the handwriting of P. H. Lucas who in 1860 re-labeled the collection, unfortunately destroying the original labels. This type is very badly worn so that today it might well pass for race furcillata Say for which reason the photograph of a typical specimen is also given (Plate 4, fig. 2).