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collection I am satisfied that P. Canace is identical. It was orig- 

 inally described from a ^ received from Arizona, while Picta was 

 described from several males brought by the late Mr. Ridings from 

 Nebraska. The northern examples are darker, but all, whether 

 from Nebraska, New Mcvico or Arizona, agree in the coloration 

 of under side. Mr. Chas. Dury informs me that he found Picta 

 abundant in New Mexico, on his recent visit. 



LiMENiTis Ursula. Fabr. 



Var. Arizonensis. 



Differs from the type in that the primaries are much produced; 

 so also are the secondaries, the band at upper branch of median 

 being much more angulated. The green extra-discal area is 

 broken into spots by the black borders of all the nervules; the 

 marginal spots on primaries are restricted to a single series,, 

 corresponding to the inner row on Ursula type, there being no 

 trace of sub-marginal markings ; these spots, also, are not lunular,. 

 but are small, and on upper half of wing scarcely more than 

 points. Secondaries have two rows along margin, the outer 

 small, lunular, the inner rounded, except the three posterior^ 

 which are lunular, but all are smaller than in Ursula, 



The under side is more like Ursula, there being on both 

 wings a double series of lunular spots, but the inner one is decid- 

 edly white on secondaries; there is also an absence of the white 

 found in Ursula about apex and on middle of costa of primaries. 



Several males were taken about Tucson, and later in the 

 season, in southern Arizona. I formerly received four (5 of this va- 

 riety from the north of Arizona, taken by the Wheeler expedition. 

 There is a gradual departure from the white-banded form Proser- 

 pina (co-form o{ Art/icuiis) of northern New York, first into the 

 type seen in southern New York, and Pennsylvania to Chicago,, 

 with occasonal traces of the band, then into the typical Ursula, 

 wholly free from the band, as found in Virginia, then this south- 

 western form, in which the shape of the wings alters and the 

 markings have somewhat changed. 



So far no females have been taken. 



LiMENiTis Weidemeyerii. Edw. 



aber. sine-fascia. 



This extraordinary example lacks the broad, common white 

 band on both surfaces, also the white patch in cell of primaries ; 

 all the sub-marginal and apical spots are present and as in the 

 type. 



Taken near Tucson. 



LIMENITIS Eros. hdw. 



var. obsoleta. 



Color faded, very like Danais Strigosa, Bates, but with the 

 characteristic white spots oi Eros, on the inner side of the black 

 mesial band of secondaries, and on both surfaces. 



1^1? taken in southern Arizona, in October. 



