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 A NEW PAMPHILA. 



BY HENRY SKINNER, M. D. 



Pamphila slossonae n. sp. — In size and markings tiiis species comes nearest 

 to P. leonardus Harris. The male expands rather less than an inch and a 

 half. Ground color of inferior wings dark brown, with basal half of wing 

 thickly covered with tawny scales which, beyond the stigma, form three spots, 

 and just above these are two small square ones. The three subcostal spots 

 are represented as in leonardus. Stigma narrow, black, and concave poste- 

 riorly. Inferior wings same color as superior, with tawny scales scattered 

 over the basal half There are four small, square, tawny spots close together, 

 with a fifth elongated one at right angles with the four, on outer half of wing- 

 running nearly parallel with the outer margin, only the angle made by the 

 spots is more acute. Fringes of all wings dingy white. The maculation on 

 underside of superiors is nearly the same as in leonardus, but in color very 

 different, the ground color in this species being made up of yellowish and 

 greenish scales; underside of inferiors olive-green, with the spots of the 

 upperside repeated, except there is a sixth one near the centre of the wing, 

 and all are dingy white. Fringes on underside same as above. Head and 

 thorax above covered with greenish hair, beneath grayish yellow. Palpi 

 almost white. 



The female expands a little more than an inch and a half Superior wings 

 very dark brown, with a broken band of yellow consisting of five spots com- 

 mencing at the first nerve above the interior margin and extending to within 

 one-eighth inch of apex. The subcostal spots are present, as in the male, 

 with two additional ones at end of cell. The inferiors as in the male, but 

 with spots fainter; underside of wings also same as in male, but the white 

 spots on inferiors are smaller. Fringes in female dark on superiors, but 

 gradually getting lighter on inferiors as the anal angle is approached. 



Described from one pair from Florida, presented by Mrs. Slos- 

 son. I think that Hesperids can be best described by comparison 

 with well-known species. While this resembles leonardus in macu- 

 lation, it is very different from it, and can readily be separated by 

 the white fringes, lighter color of markings, green underside of 

 inferiors, greenish head and thorax and nearly white palpi, etc. I 

 have named this species in honor of Mrs. A. T. Slosson, who has 

 done so much excellent and interesting field work in Florida and the 

 White Mountains of New Hampshire. 



The edition of the Check- List of Macrolepidoptera published 

 by the Brooklyn Entomological Society is exhausted. A second 

 edition had been contemplated, but in view of the fl^ct that almost 

 every family is undergoing "revision," it seems unwise to publish 

 at present. Some half a dozen copies are in the hands of the editor 

 for sale on private account, but that will exhaust the stock, and in- 

 tending purchasers had better apply at once. 



