152 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF COP^ODES. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 

 COP^EODES WrIGHTII. 



Male. — Expands .9 inch. 



Upper side yellow-oclire color ; costal margin of primaries black on 

 the edge, and hind margins of both wings edged black, scarcely more than 

 a line ; costal margin of secondaries broadly bordered black ; the ends 

 of the nervules on primaries edged black for a little distance ; on the disk 

 a black sexual narrow bar, broken into three parts, and crossing obliquely 

 the lower median and submedian interspaces ; fringes pale black shading 

 into whitish. 



Under side pale yellow-ochre of one shade ; a little dusky near base 

 of primaries, otherwise immaculate. 



Female. — Expands 1.2 inch. 



Color of male, the nervules not edged black ; immaculate. 



Under side as in the male. 



From 4 ^,2 $, part of 18 examples taken in the Mohave Desert, 

 So. California, July, 1882, by Mr. W. G. Wright. 



Mr. Wright says : " I have made a four days' trip to reach the Mohave 

 Desert. We went over a pass 6,000 feet high, in the higher portions of 

 which I saw a few Chionobas ? but took only three, as they were very 

 skillful in getting into the thorn bushes. Next on the high dry plain, I 

 took a ^ Anthocharis, perhaps Lanceolata. Then it was perfectly dry 

 and barren for 20 miles to Mohave River. About 60 rods from the river 

 came a change in the vegetation, the whole ground being covered with a 

 salt weed somewhat resembling eastern " hog weed," but more branched, 

 and upon the flowers of that I saw these bright little yellow Copgeodes. 

 I instantly jumped out and told my companion to go on to the river, and 

 then and there I collected 18 of them. More could have been got, but 

 they were rather lively, and I thought I had enough, especially as I saw 

 other things, one of which was a black species (Amblyscirtes Libya). 

 Here also I took a few Pamphila Sabuleti and P. Cafnpestris. In 

 the desert I saw an orange butterfly" (probably Terias), "but could not 

 take it. The flight of this was exceedingly rapid and erratic, and over 

 bushes which rendered pursuit difficult or impossible. These orange 



