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Anterior pair of spots on lower surface of head nearly touch on the median 

 line ; posterior pair are elongate, wider apart and diverge behind. There 

 are several additional spots on upper side of thorax. There are many 

 additional minute spots on abdomen. In darker specimens the two rows 

 of spots each side of mid-dorsal stripe have united to form a broken stripe. 



Habitat. Texas, New Mexico. 



A New Hesperid. 

 BY HENRY SKINNER. 



Pamphila vierecki n. sp. 



Male. Expands 43 mm. Primaries. Upper side. Light grayish 

 brown in color. There are three small sub-apical spots on the costa ; an 

 hour-glass shaped spot at the end of the discal cell. This spot may be 

 nearly or quite divided into two by a central constriction. There is a 

 small spot at the origin of the upper median interspace and a larger sub- 

 rectangular spot in the second median interspace. These two in conjunc- 

 tion with the spot in the cell make a triangle. In all but one specimen 

 there is an additional spot above the last median nervure. Secondaries. 

 The color immaculate. Fringes cinereous. The spots of the primaries 

 are white and translucent. Underside. Primaries : Lighter in color 

 with the spots repeated excepting the one near the interior margin. 

 Secondaries : Light gray with a brown line near center of the wing, 

 5 mm. in length and parallel with marginal curve of the wing. 



Female. Expanse 46 mm. Marked like the male but with the spots 

 larger. 



Described from 6 2 <? . 



Types in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences 

 of Philadelphia. 



Taken by Henry L,. Viereck in Dry Canon, Alamogordo, 

 New Mexico, May 8th to i3th. Imago feeds on the flowers 

 of Opunfia, prickly pear. 



This species is allied to dcva, described by Mr. \V. H. Ed- 

 wards in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., v, 292, 1876. It is lighter in 

 color above and below than dci'a. Dcra lacks the spot at the 

 end of the cell. I have seen many specimens of dc-ca from 

 South Arizona and have four males and ten females before me 

 at this writing and none have spots at end of discal cell, ex- 

 cepting two females which have a pin-point tract-. The t\v> 

 species in question may be separated at a glance by the differ- 



