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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTER- 

 FLIES, MOSTLY FROM ARIZONA. 



Bv \V. H. Edwards. 



Terias Linda. Pamphila Bellus. 

 Melit^a Nympha. " Cestus. 



Pamphila L.\sus. Phyciodes Nycteis, Yar. Drusius. 



LuNus. Melit.ea Harrisii. 



^Terias Linda, n. sp. <? . — Exp. 1.45 inch. 



Upper side citron-yellow; primaries haYe a triangular, black, apical 

 border, descendino; on hind margin not quite to inner angle; the inside 

 edge of this from costa to discoidal nervule is CYen, slightly incurved; 

 below the nervule somewhat serrated; no black at bases of wings; 

 secondaries have a black dot on margin at the end of each nervule. 

 Under side paler yellow, uniform; primaries have a black dot at end 

 of each sub-costal nervule; secondaries have two dots on disk at end 

 of cell, a dot at end of each nervule, and a few black scales on disk in 

 the discoidal and median interspaces. 



9 . — Exp. 1.5 inch. 



Paler yellow than the male; the black triangle somewhat broader, 

 the marginal dots as in male; on inner side secondaries have a large, 

 ferruginous, rounded spot at outer angle; other markings as in the 

 male. 



From I (? , 19, taken in Mexico, a short distance from the boundary 

 line of Arizona, by Mr. Morrison. 



This species is allied to T. Lisa, same shape and size; paler yellow, 

 the borders of fore wings confined to apex and hind margin above the 

 end of lower median nervule, and less excavated than in Lisa; no 

 discal mark on fore wings, and no border to hind wings, both of which 

 are characteristics of Lisa. Under side immaculate, except for the 

 two dots on arc of hind wings and a few scales on costa, and on disk 

 of same in $ , and a ferruginous patch in 9 ■ Lisa is much specked 

 and spotted. 



Melitaea Nympha, n. sp. — Allied to Minuta and Arachne. 



$. — Exp. 1.33 inch. 



Upper side black, spotted and banded with fulvous and white; both 

 wings have a sub-marginal series of small fulvous lunules, followed by 

 an extra-discal row of large fulvous spots, the anterior ones, on prima- 

 ries, showing obscurely white centres; the next, or third row, is pure 

 white on secondaries, yellowish on primaries; on secondaries, outside 

 arc, a demi-row of three yellow fulvous spots; a fulvous spot in cell 

 next arc, two yellowish spots, opposite each other, resting on the ner- 



