122 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



H. Sciidder in his magnificent work, "The Butterflies of the Eastern 

 United States and Canada," have not been adopted by collectors in 

 labelling their collections. These names, however, are, I believe, for tlie 

 most part well founded, and it is merely a matter of time before they will 

 be generally accepted. 



Phyciodes Hanhami, n sp. (Hanham's Crescent.) 

 Sexes similar both in colour and markmgs. Alar expanse, males 

 37-38 mm.; females, 40-43.50 mm. 



Upper side. — Wings bright orange fulvous, darkened towards base 



and bordered with a clear black margin, 

 which is widest at apex of primaries. 

 The base and cell marked as in P. 

 nycteis and with the same " tangle of 

 black lines" mentioned by Dr. Scudder 

 in his description of that species ; the 

 basal area, however, is never so black as 

 Fig. 4-P. NvcTE.s. Db.-Hew. j_^ nydeis, and in some specimens the 



ground colour is hardly darkened at all. All the veins of both wings are 

 lined with dark brown. 



The white marks of the under surfaces of both wings are repeated 

 above as light yellowish contrasting spots, giving the species a much 

 brighter appearance than nycteis, in which this feature does not occur, 

 even in the forms of that variable species where the fulvous colour pre- 

 dominates on the upper surface. A striking character in which Ha7ihami 

 differs from both P. nycteis and Melitcea Harrisii, a species which it also 

 resembles, is the absence on the secondaries, above, of the median black 

 line, which in those species divides the fulvous discal area on almost all 

 specimens. There is a more or less complete series of submarginal ocelli 

 in the interspaces between the submarginal and median veins, but these 

 are smaller and less distinct than in the two species named, and in some 

 specimens are obsolete. Fringes white, interrupted with black at the tips 

 of tiie nervures. Under side. — Fore wings fulvous brown, marked with 

 brown streaks and pale spots, after the pattern of M. Harrisii, but much 

 paler and less contrasting, owing to the absence of black marks. Apical 

 area very little darkened. There is a submarginal series of nacreous 

 lunules in all the interspaces, except the lowest, and inside this a sinuous 

 series of pale spots. Margin fulvous, narrow, wider than in nycteis, l)ut 

 always narrower and more regular than in M. Harrisii. Hind wings with 



