THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 25 



A NEW SPECIES OF NEONYMPHA. 



BY G. H. FRENCH, CARBONDALE, ILL. 



Neonympha Mitchellii n. sp. 



Expanse of wings, male, 1.20 to 1.30 inches; female inches. 



Male. — Upper surface grayish wood-brown, rather dark, without spots 

 or marks, except that the spots on the underside of the hind wings and 

 the dark lines bordering the terminal dark yellow line on the same wings 

 show through a little. Fringes concolorous, in certain lights a little smoky 

 tinged. Under surface slightly paler than the upper, a little more of the 

 mouse order of color, sprinkled with buff scales. Both wings are crossed 

 by four transverse brownish-yellow stripes, so dark on the fore wings as 

 to be yellow-brown, occupying the same position as the same lines in its 

 ally, N. Areolatus, the first and second uniting by a rounded, end about a 

 tenth of an inch from the inner margin of hind wings, the two outer — one 

 terminal and the other sub-terminal — also uniting before reaching anal 

 angle. In Areolatus these lines do not unite. Each of these lines has a 

 dark, brown (more or less distinct) fine bordering line on each side of it. 

 The first line crosses the fore wings a little more than two-thirds the dis- 

 tance from the base of wing to end of cell, the hind wings about two- 

 thirds. The second line crosses fore wing a little beyond the end of cell, 

 the hind wings across the end of cell. The second and third are approxi- 

 mate anteriorily as in Areolatus. Fore wings with a row of four small 

 ocelli between second and third lines, black, circled with pale Naples 

 yellow or buff, the first varying from a dot, the size of an ordinary period, 

 to about twice that diameter ; in four examples circular, in two a little 

 oval, in two a silvery metallic centre, the second a little more than twice 

 the diameter of the first ; in three examples circular, the other three 

 slightly ovate, each with from one to three metallic points, when three pre- 

 sent in the form of a triangle ; the third averaging the size of the second, 

 circular, with from one to two metallic points, when one central, when two 

 in line with the row of spots ; the fourth about one-fourth larger than the 

 first, circular, all but one, which has the buff circle almost complete on 

 the outside, but also a few buff scales outside the circle, a single metallic 

 point to each of these. 



Hind wings with six ocelli to each wing, circled with buff as those on 



