1942] 
Nearctic N eonympha 
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Male underside: primaries: rather bright fulvous of a uni- 
form tint (in some specimens the lines are almost erased), only 
slightly yellower along costa and subapically, and very weakly 
striated; second discal, in correspondence to termen, after 
sloping terminally from costa turning basally in middle of cell 
M 2 , then sloping downwards towards first discal line, sub- 
parallel here to subterminal line which starts from dorsum 
slightly closer to termen than to second discal and further up 
slopes apically though rather less so than in dorothea. Secon- 
daries: producing in contrast with brightly and evenly fulvous 
primaries a curious “Manioloid” or “Hipparchian” effect, 
being thickly dusted all over (even between second discal and 
subterminal in some specimens) with greyish scales and abun- 
dant dusky striae over a dull brownish ground. Cinereous 
border reduced to a suboval patch in middle of outer third, 
weakly pigmented (in some specimens scarcely noticeable amid 
the general suffusion, although essentially of a different, prob- 
ably cilian, origin, tint and texture than the dull grey, probably 
basally originated, scales over the rest of the wing) ; this patch 
not as finely or evenly striated as in dorothea , the striae not 
much darker or less brown than in the rest of the wing, and 
surrounded completely and cloudily by the ground color with a 
yellower glimpse of same also visible within, around the ocelli, 
as a diffusion or germination of their rims. Second discal line 
of the dorothea type but more vaguely deviated basally in 
M 3 -M 2 , owing to weaker development of cinereous irroration; 
less abruptly projecting outwards in M 1 and clearer in R s , but 
producing the same impression of passing underneath the sec- 
ond pair of silver dashes as in dorothea and thus not connect- 
ing with the second discal of primaries; bar of subterminal 
very weak. 
Male, exp. 20.5, holotype, “Cochise Co., ex Coll. A. G. 
Weeks, slide 454”, Mus. Comp. Zook; paratypes: 2 males, 
labelled “Chiricahua Mts., (one: 7.VI.08, V. L. Clemense), 
ex Coll. H. C. Fall”, Mus. Comp. Zool; 2 males “Chiricahua 
Mts. (22.VI.33, D. K. Dunkan; 25.VI)”, ex coll. C. F. dos 
Passos, Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 
This, I think, is the “ henshawi ” figured by Wright who gives 
color photograph of male and female upper side and female 
underside (folded) from specimens taken in Sta Rita Mts., 
Pima Co. with the remark: “It can scarcely be considered as 
