156 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [JunC, 'iQ 



placed next to A. cribricollis Horn with which it agrees in gen- 

 eral size, form and in regard to the cribrate type of prothoracic 

 punctuation. It, however, differs markedly from this in regard 

 to its coloration, the type of vestiture, and so on, and bears no 

 resemblance whatever to any of our other North American 

 species. 



Type and paratype in my collection, collected in the Sabino 

 Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, July 23, 191 7, by 

 Prof. W. M. Wheeler and by him kindly presented to me. Sev- 

 eral other specimens are now in Prof. Wheeler's possession. 

 The species is named in honor of its captor. 



(To be continued.) 



Argynnis apacheana Skinner and Edwards' Plates of 



A. nokomis (Lep.). 



By Albert F. Winn, Montreal, Canada. 



It is not without a certain amount of fear and trembling that 

 I venture to make a few remarks on a species of this most per- 

 plexing genus of butterflies. 



Under the name of A. nokomis Edw. we acquired last month 

 for the collection of the Lyman Entomological Room, McGill 

 University, a perfect pair of the species, which has been known 

 under that name until a few months ago when Dr. Hy. Skinner 

 rechristened it as Argynnis apacheana} 



There seems to be no doubt that he is correct in his contention 

 that the single male specimen that Edwards received in 1862 and 

 described in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences,^ under the name of A. nokomis, is identical with 

 what he afterwards described as A. nitocris^ from another 

 single male example, and that, therefore, A. nitocris Edw. 

 becomes a synonym of A. nokomis Edw. — leaving the species 

 described as A. nokomis, with figure showing both sexes and 

 upper and lower surfaces in plate^ — in need of a name, which 

 Dr. Skinner has now supplied — apacheana. 



1 Ent. News, XXIX, 67-68, Feb., 1918. 



2 Proceedings of the Acad. Nat. vSc. of Philadelphia, 1862, p. 221. 



3 Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. V (not XV as quoted in Ent. News), p. 15 



(1874). 



4 Edwards, Butterflies of N. A., Vol. I, pi. IV of Argynnis, pp. 73- 

 74; 1873 (not 1868). 



