INSECTS OF BEULAH, NEW MEXICO. 



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Thecla crysalus Edw. 



titus Full. 



ealanus Him. 

 Lycsena rustica Edw. 



melissa Edw. 



comyntas Godt. 

 Neophasia menapia Feld. 

 Pieris occidentals Reak. 



napi Linn. 



Nathalis iole Bd. 

 Antbocliaris ausonides Bd. 

 Colias csesonia fitoll. 



eurytheme Bd. 



alexandra Edw. 

 Pamphila comma var. 



sylvanoides Bd. 



snowi Edw. 

 Pholisora pirns Edw. 



HETEROCERA. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 



The first letter after a species denotes the determiner, and the next 

 letter or letters the collector. 

 Sin. — Smith, J. B. 

 B. Beutenmuller, W. 

 S. — Skinner, H. 

 C— Cockerel 1, T. D. A. 

 D.— Dvar, H. G. 



Deilephila lineata Fabr. S., S. 

 Bembecia margin ata Harr. P>., C. 

 Alypia lorquini G. and R. S., S. 

 Gnophaela vermiculata G. and R. S.,S. 



clappiana Holl. S. S. 

 Crambidia casta Sanb. D., C. 

 Crocota brevicornis Walk. S., S. 



quinaria Grt. D., C. 

 Platarctia hyperborea Curt. S., S. 



Arctia deterrninata Neum. S., S. 

 Clisiocampa fragilis Stretch. C, C. 

 Peridromia sancia Hbn. S., S. 



astricta Morr. S. S. 

 Noctua baja smithii, Snell. S. 



claiidestina Harr. S., S. 

 Feltia tricosa Lint. S., S. 



cii'cumdata Grt. S., S. 



herilis Grt. S., S. 



S. 



canon. Most of the females were taken in a damp meadow near some old build- 

 ings below the saw-mill. Violets grow in profusion in this meadow. The males 

 when not feeding on the sunflowers were seen "dipping" over the meadow in 

 search of the freshly emerged females. 



This habit of flight, which I call dipping, seems to be peculiar to the males of 

 certain species of Argynnis while in search of the females hiding in long meadow 

 grass. This is the only species in the genus, as far as I have observed, that seems 

 partial to sunflowers. During my stay I took about one hundred specimens and 

 could have obtained many more. Mrs. Cockerell succeeded in obtaining eggs of 

 the species. I have received the variety coerulescens described by Dr. Holland 

 from Mexican specimens, from the Santa Catalina Mountains in southern Ari- 

 zona. Nitoeris is a fine species and its varieties are handsome, and doubtless 

 other forms of the species will be found when the high mountain valleys of the 

 Southwest are better known. The species is found as late as the middle of Sep- 

 tember; Dr. Holland's variety having been taken in the Piedras Verdes i7100 to 

 7300 ft.) in Chihuahua, Mexico, September 15th. 



TRANS. AM. KNT. SOC, XXIX. 



DECEMBER, 1902. 



