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and correspondence to primaries; well shaded with greyish; 
light fulvous in disc and beyond that slightly irrorated with the 
trans-wing shadows of the heavily striated cinereous border 
beneath. Underside: rather more contrasty than in male. Pri- 
maries: yellowish with faint fulvous red flush over lower part; 
marked as in male. Secondaries: as in male except for a slight 
olivaceous brown deepening of the dull ground color. 
Male, holotype, female, allotype, and female, paratype, all 
three labelled “Fort Davis, Texas, 3.VI.40”, female, paratype, 
exp. 20.5, same label, with the addition “6,500 f.”. All these 
ex Coll. C. F. dos Passos, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
The fixation of these three definite racial points, dorothea 
dorothea , dorothea edwardsi and dorothea avicula is, I think, 
unavoidable, but one does not care to indulge in pursuing this 
course and giving names to the various transitions which occur 
between them, especially as some of these variations seem to 
be seasonal. It will be noted that the holotypes of all three 
races were taken in June. Fifteen smallish specimens, twelve 
males, three females (Carn. Mus.), from Paradise, Ariz. taken 
by Poling late in the season (August-October) represent a cer- 
tain transition from edwardsi to avicula ; another kind of tran- 
sition between the same is represented by two males from Silver 
City, South New Mexico, ex coll, dos Passos, Am. Mus. Nat. 
Hist. 
Neonympha maniola n. sp. 
Male. Primaries: more elongated apically than in dorothea 
with slightly slanting termen; in color like dorothea edwardsi 
with similar diffuse fulvous red. Secondaries: termen slightly 
sinuate; distinct praeterminal spots, in Cu x (small), M 3 and 
M 2 (only the last two in most specimens), rather broadly 
aureolated with diffuse pale fulvous unlike any dorothea race. 
Androconial mark: large, broader throughout than in doro- 
thea , with larger, differently shaped patches and slightly jagged 
outer edge projecting on veins and interneural folds; post- 
cellularly pushing against second discal as seen through the 
wing; consisting of 5 patches: broad trapezoid, in C 2 ; two 
slightly decreasing trapezoids, in Cu x and M 3 ; two wedges in 
M 2 and M x ; and of a triangle, in cell R + M, twice as long as 
in dorothea , pointing basally and reaching down to about level 
of Cu 2 . (See fig. 1.) 
