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-pice, but here not so as to touch the t. p. line. This outer line may 

 be broken. Hiud whiff* translucent, diffusely clouded, the disk 

 yellowish, the marginal and inner areas and discal spot darker 

 gray, relieved by a small light spot in the submedian interspace at 

 the margin. Below shaded with crimson on the margins. Head, 

 thorax and legs reddish, collar yellow; abdomen ochreous at sides 

 and tip. Expanse 32mm. 



9 Wings partly- aborted and apparently not functional for flight- 

 Coloration as in the male but the markings broader and heavier and 

 the ground color of a more crimson shade Expanse 27 mm. Outer 

 edge of patagia and stripes on thorax yellow ; abdomen dull crim- 

 son, a few ochreous hairs along the sides and tip ; legs all red- 



Nushagak. Alaska (McKay), Point Barrow (Murdock) and Be- 

 thel, Kuskoquim River (through Dr. Skinner). 3$. I ?. United 

 States National Museum, type No. 4,250. 

 Arctia caja. Linn. 



The Alaskan specimens are smaller than usual, but have the 

 bright reel hind wings of the caja form. The white markings of 

 the fore \vings are very extensive, more so than in var. ntaheusis, 

 but not so much as in the type of opuleata. They seem to be the 

 normal arctic form of which opulent a is probably an aberration. 

 Parasemia petrosa. Waik. 



This species mav reach Alaska. We have the true modesta form 

 from Kluchavski, Kamchatka (Dr. Stejueger), indistinguishable 

 from Coloradan examples, and I think that our species is the same 

 as the European iiluntti<iin.ts. At any rate, the break, if there is 

 one, is not coincident with the dividing line between North Amer- 

 ica and Asia. 



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A HYBRID BETWEEN LIMENTIS URSULA AND L 



ARCHimJS. 



BY L. I. HOLDREDGK. 



This specimen was captured at Oueonta, New York, June 

 llth, 1895. The uppevside is the color of Daimis Ix-rencie and the 

 fore wings are marked as in L. arch/'/tjtux , the hind wings are also 

 like thisspecio except that the space beyond the black line cross- 

 ing the limbal area is entirely black with a band of large brick-red 

 spots parallel to the black line ; on either side of these is a row of 

 <mall blue crescents. The underside is nearest ursula as it has the 

 brick red spots of that species; "it differs from urtniJn in having in- 

 terior to the row of red spots on the inferiors, a line of white spots 

 extending from the costa to the intarior margin. The specimen is 

 a male and is about the size of the male of L. <irrf,i/>/>ii.^. It is 

 quite a handsome butterfly and should probably be called Limeti- 

 itis tn-xtilii in-rkii>i>nx, hybrid. Fanciful names for hybrids are ob - 

 jectionable. It is best to indicate by the name what they reillv 

 are. 



