THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 66 



NOTES ON SOME NEW MEXICO BUTTERFLIES. 



BY T. D. A. COCKERPXL, N. M. AGR. EXP. STA. 



Lemonias Duryi, Edwards. — I have before me a ? taken by Mr. 

 S. Macgregor in 1898 between Mesilla Park and the Organ Mts., N. M. ; 

 that is, in the exact type locaHty of the species, originally collected by 

 Mr. Dury in 1881. The specimen expands an inch and a half, and is 

 thus larger than Dury's, but is otherwise the same. I do not know why 

 Dr. Holland states (Butterfly Book. p. 230) that the ? L. Duryi figured 

 by him is the only one known ; Dury took several, and Edwards described 

 from both sexes. 



Anosia strigosa, Bates. — ^A beautiful specimen of this insect was 

 taken (1898) by Mr. S. Macgregor close to Little Mountain, Mesilla 

 Valley, N. M. 



Heterochroa (or Adelpha) calif or nica,^w\.\tx. — This beautiful butterfly 

 is common in the Organ Mts., N. M., a more eastern locality than any I 

 find recorded for it. 



Satyrus Meadi, Edw. — Fillmore Canon, Organ Mis.. \. M. \iier. 29; 

 collected by Prof. C. H. T. Townsend. 



NeoiiympJia Henshazui, Edw. — This is rather common at Dripping 

 Spring, Organ Mts., N M., 5600 ft., and I took it nn Tucrto Vltn., near 

 Santa Fe', Aug. 7, at 8875 ft. Thus it has a vertical range of at least 



3275 ft. 



MelitcBa chara, Edw. — Common flying in a gras'^y spot near the 

 western base of the Organ Mts., N. M., 1898. (Ckll. and S. Macgregor). 

 This is an austral representative of the subalpine or subboreal M. minuta, 

 the latter flying at much higher altitudes. M. cJiara has hitherto been 

 reported only from Arizona. 



Chlorippe tnontis, Edw — Common on the western side of the 

 Organ Mts, N. M., at about 5000 fr., in the neighbourhood of Celtis 

 bushes. This is the Upper Sonoran representative of the Lower Sonoran 

 C. antonia. The Organ Mt. examples are strongly fulvous above, not 

 pale ashen-gray as Holland (Butterfly Book, p. 190) has it. Edwards 

 (Papilio, Vol. III., p. 7) states that his types of montis were fulvous above. 

 All that I have seen have the ocellus in the lower median interspace 

 blind, while that in the upper has a white spot. 



Phyciodes nyctcis, Dbl. and Hew. — Taken by Prof E. O. Wooton, 

 on Ruidoso Creek, N. M. 



