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Psyche 
[Sept.-Dee. 
belonging to the West Coast fauna and has but little, if any 
interest for us.” The female figure is only slightly differen- 
tiated from the male, with primaries upperside fulvous red, 
diffusely bordered with fuscous, and secondaries evenly fuscous 
with the fulvous aureoles of the male merely enlarged and 
deepened in tint to form an interrupted lunulate belt; underside 
(with allowance for a greenish blurring of the color process in 
the figure) very similar to the Chiricahua males. 
I have felt somewhat reluctant to fix this as a species, as 
there are no females in any of the collections I have examined. 
Maniola is closely allied to dorothea ; but granted that andro- 
conial mark, wing shape, behavior of second discal and sub- 
terminal lines, and certain peculiarities of scaling, such as 
disclosed by the cinereous irroration, constitute specific char- 
acters in this group (if they do not, then one arrives at the 
absurd conclusion that there is only one “good” species, 
gemma Hubner, with ab. pyraemon , ab. henshawi , ab. maniola , 
ab. dorothea etc. not even as races, for they occur together 
in different combinations) I cannot very well see how maniola 
can be placed alongside the dorothea races described, which 
all have a system of common characters quite inapplicable to 
maniola. 
The third species, pyraemon Butl., is newly added here to the 
fauna of North America, although for many years specimens, 
labelled “henshawi” in collections, have been coming from 
Arizona. The Biol. Centr. Am. figure of “ Pyraemon ” female 
underside, totally different from Butler’s figure, refers obvi- 
ously to a form of henshawi , while the beautifully executed 
portrait of pyraemon male, with underside, is designated as 
“ hilaria ” (an error corrected in the text). Butler’s figure of 
the underside is coarsely colored, being, with the other butter- 
flies on the plate, too dusky and though illustrating, as it 
purports to do, a female, produces a wrong impression, simu- 
lating a male. Thus, pyraemon is pretty well concealed from 
the collector. However, a careful examination of Butler’s text 
and figure convinces me that the Biol. Centr. Am. does illustrate 
the male of Butler’s species, and with this figure the Arizonian 
^insect tallies nicely. Unfortunately, I have not been able to 
obtain Mexican specimens or to get a photograph of the type 
from England. 
Butler’s original description, in Victorian Latin, runs thus: 
