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Argynnis apacheana, a New Name (Lepid.). 
By Henry SKINNER. 
___ I propose the name afacheana for the species of Argynnis 
described and figured by Mr. W. H. Edwards in Volume I 
of his Butterflies of North America, plate IV of Argynnis, 
figures I, 2, ¢, 3, 4, ?, under the name nokomis. 
What he originally described as nokomis in the Proceedings 
of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for the 
year 1862, page 221, is a different species. The type was a 
male and he gave as the locality, “Rocky Mountains, and 
Mountains of California.” He also says, “This is much the 
largest of the Pacific species, equalling the largest specimens 
of Cybele. In color it most resembles Aphrodite. The female 
I have not seen.” This is the same species which he subse- 
quently described under the name nitacris, in the Transactions 
of the American Entomological Society, 1874, Volume XV. 
The type of nitocris was “one male taken at White Mountains, 
Arizona, by Lieut. Henshaw of the exploring Expedition 
under Lieut. Wheeler, August, 1873.” 
In volume one of his Butterflies of North America, Mr. 
Edwards says in regard to nokemis, “The original specimen 
from which the description of the species was drawn was re- 
ceived by me in 1862, through the Smithsonian, and was 
labelled ‘Bitter Root Mountains’. . . . Until the present 
year (1872) it has been an unique in my collection and, so far 
as I know, not found in any other.” Recently Mr. R. C. Will- 
iams, Jr., searched the Edwards-Holland collection in Pitts- 
burgh for this type but was unable to find it. Nokomis was 
twice figured by Mr. Edwards for this Volume I, the upper and 
under sides of the male being given, and drawn by D. Wiest, 
but this plate was not published and the American Entomo- 
logical Society, which issued the volume, still possesses the 
withdrawn plates. Mr. Edwards, having received five males 
and two females, of what I call apacheana, brought from 
Arizona by the Exploring Expedition under Lieutenant 
Wheeler, in 1871, beautifully figured both sexes, the drawings 
