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DESCRIPTIONS AND NOTES OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



The followiug papers upon Lepidoptera have already been published 

 in Scientific Journals. They are republished here for convenience of 

 reference, and as being a portion of the work of the Entomologist 

 during the period for which his Eeport is made. 



[From Papilio, May, 1881, i, pp. 69-74.] 

 ON SOME SPECIES OF NISONIADES. 



Mr. Wm. H. Edwards has submitted to me for examination some examples of 

 Nisoniacles, which prove to be undescribed species. They are the following : — 



NisoNiADES N^vius n. sp. 



Size somewhat less than N. Juvenalis and iV. funeralis. Wings fuscous, almost 

 black, with a purple reflection. 



Primaries with four minute, subquadrangular, white, costo-apical, hyaline 

 spots, of which the fourth (from costa) may be obsolete ; a similar spot in cell 

 3, and none in the discal cell. An irregular umber-brown spot centers on the 

 discal cross-vein, and at about the middle of cell 1 b (the submedian interspace) 

 is another, showing more distinctly in the ? . The subterminal row of obscure, 

 rounded, iutranervular fuscous spots rest on a dark umber-brown ground. All 

 the markings are nearly lost in the dark ground ; those best defined are two con- 

 fluent trapezoidal spots in cell 1 b, forming the inner termination of the trans- 

 verse row of spots, and defined without and within by a W in umber-brown. 

 The spots of the transverse row are not of the ordinary sagittate form. 



Secondaries dark brown, showing faintly the two rows of iutranervular paler 

 brown spots, more distinct in the ? . Cilia dark brown, lighter upon their outer 

 half in one $, and quite pale, approaching whitish in the ? . 



Beneath, paler brown, and showing more or less distinctly the two ordinary 

 lines toward the margin of pale brown spots, and in one $ example, a white 

 spot in the discal cell, not seen on the upper surface. Head and palpi cou- 

 color6us with the thorax, abdomen, and legs. 



Expanse of wings : i 1.45 to 1.65 in.; ? 1.65 to 1.70 in. 



Described from 3 $ 's, collected at Indian Eiver, Florida. 



This species is alHed to N. funeralis Scudd.-Burg. Its markings are similar in 

 form and arrangement and nearly as inconspicuous, and the pale fringe of the 

 secondaries in one example shows a tendency toward the white fringe of that 

 species. Its wings are not quite so pointed. The examples before me show 



