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through of the red under side. Costa strongly concave, edged with black ; 

 outer margin with narrow black border, through which some of the 

 nervures cut as white lines. In hind angle is a large ovoid space ex- 

 tending over half way to apex, darker, yet more transparent than any 

 other part from absence of the opaque white scales, sparingly dusted 

 with minute black scales, and across it the nervures are deeply covered 

 with black. An oval spot of dense black overlaid with white scales in 

 the middle occupies the basal half of interior margin, in its widest part 

 extending half way to costa and connected therewith by a black band. 

 Discal lunule very large, irregularly oval, white overlaid with reddish 

 yellow, and bordered with dense black. Hind wings rust-red, with scat- 

 tered black scales on costa, and a narrow border of black sharply defined, 

 broadening toward anal angle and ending thereat; near inner margin 

 an indefinite, smoky, longitudinal cloud; discal spot very large, quad- 

 rangular, black. Beneath, costa of fore-wings narrowly edged with 

 black, a thin dark border on outer margin, the basal part of wings rust- 

 red, the color becoming obsolete, but following the nervures through- 

 out. Discal spot as above. Hind wings wholly red, with a sharply 

 defined border on outer margin narrower than on upper side. Discal 

 spot as above, but cut by a faint white transverse line. 



Habitat: — Southern California. Described from 2 $ taken on the 

 wing, flying high, near San Bernardino, Cal., in Oct. 1883, by the 

 author, and now in his possession. 



Following Drury, this name is given for that daughter of Atlas — 

 the ' ' missing Pleiad. ' ' 



A NE\A^ SPECIES OF GNOPHiELA. 



Bv G. H. French, Carbondale, 111. 



Gnophaela Arizona, n. sp. — Expanse 1.90 inches. In color and 

 marking this resembles G. Hopfferi, but in shape of wings is more 

 like G. Vermiculata. Thorax black, on the prosternum a patch of 

 orange hairs that extends up to the humerus and over the front of the 

 anterior femora. Abdomen steel-blue, five more or less distinct whitish 

 spots on each side. Ground color of wings black, the hind wings with a 

 steel-blue reflection in a certain light. The pattern of markings similar 

 to Hopfferi, but is of a paler whitish yellow color, with the following dif- 

 ferences : of the three central spots to the primaries, the discal and 

 submedian are pointed next the body, and the anterior and posterior 

 of the four terminal ones are very small. The secondaries have three 

 medio-basal spots arranged similar to those on the primaries, a little 

 less pointed basally, and the second or middle one a little smaller. 

 Beyond these a row of three situated in the costal, first and second cells, 

 the first lapping a little in front of the discal, but not as much as in 



