358 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NOTES ON NEOPHASIA TERLOOTIT, BHR., FROM ARI- 

 ZONA, WITH DESCRIPTION OF A NEW VARIETY. 



BY OTTO C. POLING, QUINCY, ILL. 



Neophasia Terlootii was described a great many years ago*, and 

 the description being in Latin, it is not surprising that Dr. Strecker over- 

 looked it in the hurry to pubHsh his description of the female I sent him, 

 which he supposed had not been previously described. It is a little 

 surprising, however, that Dr. Skinner, who had the first opportunity 

 to examine one of my examples of Terlootii, should have failed to 

 recognize the generic characters of the insect until Dr. Strecker's 

 description as Neophasia epyaxa was published. 



The first female example of Terlootii taken, which is the type of 

 '•'■Archonias lycceas, Skinner " f , and is now in my collection, agrees with 

 the type of Neophasia epyaxa, Strk., which I sent him after a careful 

 comparison. These two specimens were taken in Cochise County, 

 Arizona, to which locality I sent one of my regular collectors to spend 

 the past season in studying the habits and collecting a series of examples 

 of this interesting butterfly. 



Of the series before me, most of the examples agree with the 

 description of Terlootii male, and subsequent illustrations and descrip- 

 tions of specimens sent out. There are, however, three females and one 

 male which differ so much from the others as to well deserve a varietal 

 name, and with the kind permission of my friend. Dr. William Barnes, 

 I am allowed to use a most appropriate name, which he had intended 

 to bestow on the species had it not been previously described, Neophasia 

 Terlootii, var. PrijicetoJiia, n. var. Male differs from type in having the 

 margin of hind wings washed with pale red on both surfaces, of a shade 

 somewhat lighter than that of the female. The under surface is more 

 heavily washed with red than the upper. There is a submarginal entire 

 black band on both surfaces of hind wings, which is not quite so broad 

 as in the female metiapia, but the veins between this band and the 

 outer margin are more heavily washed with black scales than in the 

 latter species. 



Female — From the types oi Neophasia epyaxa, Strk., and '■^Archonias 

 lyceas,^' Skinner, this form differs in having a much greater suffusion 



*Trans. Am. Ent. .Soc, Phil., II., 304 (1869). 

 lEnt. News, XL, 533, plate XIV. (Sept., 1900). 



