Vol. XXIX] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 67 



Argynnis apacheana, a New Name (Lepid.) 

 By HENRY SKINNER. 



I propose the name apacheana for the species of Argynnis 

 described and figured by Mr. W. H. Edwards in Volume I 

 of his Butterflies of North America, plate IV of Argynnis, 

 figures 1,2, $ , 3, 4, 9 , under the name nokomis. 



What he originally described as nokomis in the Proceedings 

 of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the 

 year 1862, page 221, is a different species. The type was a 

 male and he gave as the locality, "Rocky Mountains, and 

 Mountains of California." He also says, "This is much the 

 largest of the Pacific species, equalling the largest specimens 

 of Cybclc. In color it most resembles Aphrodite. The female 

 I have not seen." This is the same species which he subse- 

 quently described under the name nitocris, in the Transactions 

 of the American Entomological Society, 1874, Volume XV. 

 The type of nitocris was "one male taken at White Mountains, 

 Arizona, by Lieut. Henshaw of the exploring Expedition 

 under Lieut. Wheeler, August, 1873." 



In volume one of his Butterflies of NortJi America, Mr. 

 Edwards says in regard to nokomis, "The original specimen 

 from which the description of the species was drawn was re- 

 ceived by me in 1862, through the Smithsonian, and was 

 labelled 'Bitter Root Mountains' .... Until the present 

 year ( 1872) it has been an unique in my collection and, so far 

 as I know, not found in any other." Recently Mr. R. C. Will- 

 iams, Jr., searched the Edwards-Holland collection in Pitts- 

 burgh for this type but was unable to find it. Nokomis was 

 twice figured by Mr. Edwards for this Volume I, the upper and 

 under sides of the male being given, and drawn by D. Wiest, 

 but this plate was not published and the American Entomo- 

 logical Society, which issued the volume, still possesses the 

 withdrawn plates. Mr. Edwards, having received five males 

 and two females, of what I call apaclieana, brought from 

 Arizona by the Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant 

 \Yheeler, in 1871, beautifully figured both sexes, ihe drawings 



