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up on its side some butterflies dancing about. He climbed 

 slowly up, about thirty feet, and captured a specimen in his 

 net, only to find its wings utterly despoiled when he took it 

 from his net upon descending. On the following day he 

 revisited the spot, having arranged a heavy pad of cloth 

 about the neck of a killing bottle so that it would not be 

 broken when suddenly pressed against the rock. Slowly he 

 climbed up the sides of the cliff, and after two hours hard 

 work had 'bottled ' seven specimens of this beautiful species, 

 which were sitting on the bare rocks, but, oh, so shy !" (R. 

 Ottolengui in Ent. News, 6, 218, 1895). 



Var. aryxna Dyar, Jour. N. Y. Ent. Soc, 13, 141, 1905; Biol. 

 Cent. -Am. Lep. Het., 3, pi. 69, figs. 3, 4. 



Dr. Dyar says, "It differs from neiimoegeni in having the 

 fulvous markings considerably reduced, the outer band being 

 broken into spots. I have ten specimens from Arizona from 

 Dr. Barnes and Mr. Riley." Dr. Dyar says his aryxiia is 

 figured in the BiolOgia, plate 79, figs. 3 and 4. Figure 4 I 

 take to be 7ieumoege7ii cT , and figure 3 is a species not known 

 to me. Figure 4 is the species or form commonly found in 

 the Huachuca Mts., Arizona. For figure 3 I propose the 

 name drucei. Nenmoege7ii is quite variable, the fulvous mark- 

 ings being broad bands or reduced almost to spots. 



Meg-athymus polingi Skinner, Ent. News, 16, 232, 1905. 



cf. Head above gray, below white; antennae black, with a few 

 white scales at the joints and white at the base of the club ; body 

 above orange-fulvous, gray beneath. Primaries. — Black and orange- 

 fulvous, with a black border to the exterior margin evident at the apex ; 

 on the orange-fulvous inside of this border is a black spot of irregular 

 shape ; in the centre of the wing is another black spot irregularly 

 round in shape ; the base of the wing is orange-fulvous. Secondaries. 

 — Border black ; there is an orange-fulvous band which starts below 

 the costa and extends nearly to the interior margin ; the base is orange- 

 fulvous. Underside. — Primaries : These are much as above, except 

 that the upper part of the orange-fulvous band is white. Secondaries. 

 — Gray, with an irregular whitish band parallel to the costa and ex- 

 terior margin ; it begins as a spot and then narrows into a line and 

 then gradually widens in an irregular way ; in the centre of the wing 

 are two whitish spots, the lower one much the longer of the two. Ex- 

 trans. AM. ENT. SOC, XXXVII. 



