1900] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 333 



and posterior portion of the primaries is darker and more intense 

 and the black spots broader. 



?. The female differs greatly in appearance from the typical 

 female of nrtocr/*, because of the fact that the quadrate limbal 

 markings on the primaries and the secondaries are blue, ot the 

 same tint as the corresponding spots in Argynnis dtana. The basal 

 and median portions of the upper side of the wings are deep black, 

 shot in certain lights with a violet lustre. On the under side the 

 wings correspond to the type of Nitocris in the disposition of all 

 the spots and markings, but the red of the primaries is darker. The 

 secondaries in some specimens have the wing before the median band 

 of silvery spots dark olive green, with the submarginal band of light 

 quadrate spots pea green iu color. In other specimens the inner 

 area of the wing before the median band of silvery spots is deep 

 maroon In all specimens examined by me the submarginal band 

 of light spots is more or less tinged with green, never pale honey- 

 yellow, as in the type. 



There is considerable variation in the expanse of the speci- 

 mens, but in no case do they depart iu the matter of size from 

 the types of nitocris which are before me. 



This form appears to be not uncommon in the mouth of 

 September in the locality from which the specimens came. 



The superficial resemblance of the female of this species to 

 the female of diana, because of the blue color of the light spots 

 on the upper side of the wings, is at first sight quite striking 

 and the variety is altogether one of the most beautiful in the 

 genus. 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, December 13, 1899. 



A NEW COCHILDIAN OF THE PALEARATIC GROUP. 



By Hakkison G. Dyer. 



I have had in my collection for several years a species of Tortri- 

 cididfYoxa. Iowa, which I could not place with any described spe- 

 cies. Lately Mr. W. F. Fiske has sent me another from Durham, 

 New Hampshire. 

 Tortrioidia fiskeana, n. sp. 



Body and fore wings brownish, ocherous, glistening ; hind wings 

 brown black, the fringe lighter. Fore wings with two blackish 

 transverse lines, as in T. yrw fit, T. pallida and T.Jlexuosa ; the 

 iimer line, slightly beyond the middle of the wing is straight* 

 sharply defined inwai-dly, a little diffuse outwardly and in the 

 Iowa specimen continued as a dusky cloud half way to the termen ; 

 outer line curved from costa, where it joins the inner line, to in- 



