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Body above blue, on abdomen mixed with brown; beneath, 

 thorax cinereous, abdomen lighter ; legs gray and black ; antennae 

 annulated black and white ; club black, tip ferruginous. 



Female. — Expands about i inch. 



Rather more than half of primaries is black, the blue being 

 restricted to posterior part, and not reaching inner angle; the blue 

 is also a shade darker than in male ; secondaries blue, except on 

 the costal margin, which is black. Under side as in the male, but 

 in the mesial band of secondaries ferruginous scales appear. 



From a large number of examples taken in southern Arizona, 

 in October. 



This species belongs to same group with Leda and Clytie. 



COP.^ODES Myrtis. n. s. 



Male. — Expands .8 inch. 



Upper side bright red-fulvous; hind margin of primaries 

 bordered by pale brown, narrowly next inner angle, widening 

 above and at apex; the nervules brown at extremities; costal 

 edge brown ; at outer end of cell an indistinct dark mark ; sec- 

 ondaries have a narrow brown border from outer angle to lower 

 median nervule ; the inner margin narrowly and the costal margin 

 broadly edged brown. 



Under side of primaries brown, yellowish at tip; from base to 

 near inner angle a black stripe ; color of secondaries wholly yel- 

 lowish. 



From I $ taken near Tucson. 



Pamphila Arabus. n. s. 



Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side glossy dark brown ; primaries have three small 

 spots on costal margin in straight transverse line, and two oblique 

 to them in median interspaces, all translucent; a whitish point in 

 sub-median interspace in line with the two spots, and a similar 

 point in cell near outer end ; fringes brown. 



Under side of primaries brown, the hind margin, from apex, 

 two-thirds distance to inner angle, clouded dark gray; secondaries 

 gray-brown, shading into brown on middle of disk, and slightly 

 gray again along hind margin ; the brown area lies on middle of 

 disk and to costal margin. Body, above dark brown, below gray ; 

 legs light brown ; palpi whity-brown ; antennae, black above, 

 yellowish below ; club black, tip ferruginous. 



From I ? taken in southern Arizona, in October. 



Pyrgus Nearchus. n. s. 



Male. — Expands 1.2 inch. 



Upper side brown-black, over basal areas blue-gray ; primaries 

 )iave a row of white points, and an incomplete sub-marginal row, 

 only distinct next inner margin ; on costal margin, three-fourths 

 the distance from base to apex, are four white spots in transverse 

 line; outside these, near hind margin, a double spot, and in upper 

 median interspace, beneath the costal line, a single spot ; across 



