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described, a very fresh and perfect one, taken by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, in 

 Arizona. In 1878, I received from Mr. C. E. Aiken, of Colorado 

 Springs, several lepidoptera taken by him in Arizona ; and among them 

 was a second male Nitocris, in bad condition, and a female nearly perfect 

 in color. This differs from the male as widely as does the female of 

 Nokomis from its male. I give description of it. 



Nitocris, female. Expands 3 inches. 



Upper side blackish brown. Darker than Nokomis, the black mark- 

 ings of disk lost in the dark ground ; the extra discal spots as in female 

 Nokomis, being in transverse rows, and of a pale yellow color, the small 

 submarginal spots whitish ; the spots of secondaries narrower than in 

 most examples of Nokomis, owing to the broad edging of brown upon 

 each nervule ; they are also much dusted with brown, and only on the 

 outer part of the spots opposite the cell is the clear buff ground or pale 

 yellow ground to be seen. Under side of primaries fiery-red over all the 

 wing except the apical area, which is yellow ; the sub-apical patch brown, 

 and the nervules on that area are much bordered with brown ; on the 

 patch two small silvered spots, and the five or six uppermost marginal 

 spots are small and imperfectly silvered. Secondaries have the ground 

 of an uniform blackish brown, a little dusted by ferruginous next base and 

 along the nervures ; the belt yellow, divided into spots by the dark ner- 

 vules, and the margin of each spot is dusted, so that the clear yellow is 

 seen only in the middle ; hind margin nearly black with an indistinct 

 yellow stripe, broken at the nervules ; the marginal spots small, silvered, 

 surrounded by a jet black border ; the other spots shaped as in the male 

 and silvered. 



I have recently received a male Argynnis from Ur. Jas. Bailey, of 

 Albany, N. Y., much worn and broken, one of three which were taken at 

 Elko, Nevada, which seems to me to be no other than Nitocris. It ex- 

 pands only 2.75 inches, and the limb of each wing is faded out. But the 

 disk retains much of the natural fiery hue, and the markings show that 

 the insect belongs to this sub-group. So also with the markings of the 

 under side. What became of the other two examples taken Dr. Bailey 

 does not know. Apparently the species was much out of its range at Elko. 



Papilio Batrdii, Edw., £ . Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vi., p. 200, 1866. 

 I found the example described in a bottle, with cotton, at the Smith- 

 sonian, sent I think by Dr. Palmer. . It was badly abraded, and the tails 



