January 14, 1931



Dr. Alfonsa Dampf,

Avenida Insurgentes 171

Mexico, D.F., Mexico



My dear Doctor Dampf:



I want to thank you for the splendid Christmas and New Year, card which you so kindly sent me, and which I have shown to many of my friends.  Unfortunately before Christmas I was compelled to be away from home in New York and elsewhere, and I was unable personally to take up, as I always do when I ahve the time sending of Christmas salutations to my friends.



I have no doubt that Gunder of Pasadena has sent you a copy of his last article in the Entomological News.  I furnished him with some of the data, which he employed and I dare say he also wrote to you.  Gunder is irresponsible and quite a lovable fellow, though he is burdening our check-lists with a multitude of varietal names and names of aberrations, which I think are hardly worth publication.  Of course species vary in themselves, but in my work of revising the Butterfly Book in which I am engaged I have been at moments almost tortured by the multiplicity of names of aberration omitted by Gunder.  I warned him at the