Vol. xxi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 309 



The Butterflies of the Lake Tahoe Region. 

 By E. J. NEWCOMER, Palo Alto, Cal. 



(Continued from p. 277) 



8. Melitaea anicia Db. & Hew. 



One 9 at Deer Park (6500 ft.), June 10. Common about 

 Glen Alpine in July and August, below 7000 feet. The form 

 here is very much like Wright's sierra, which, I think, is at 

 most a variety of anicia with the markings of the female blur- 

 red. 



9. Melitaea editha Bdv. 



Mr. Wright, in his "Butterflies of the West Coast," figures 

 this species from Lake Tahoe. I did not take it. 



10. Melitaea whitneyii Behr. 



This is one of the commonest butterflies of the Canadian 

 zone, gathering in large numbers about moist spots in the soil. 

 It flies from early June until the middle of August. This but- 

 terfly, as Hy. Edwards has already said,* would appear to be 

 the mountain form of palla. It differs from palla in being gen- 

 erally freer from black on the upper side. I have taken no 

 black females of whitneyii, though the female of palla is much 

 commoner than the red, in my experience. Behr distinguished 

 whitneyii from palla chiefly by the absence of eye-spots in the 

 submarginal band on the under side of the secondaries of the 

 former. However, several of my mountain specimens have 

 distinct eye-spots, and if one were to call these a different spe- 

 cies from those without the spots, he would have two almost 

 indistinguishable species flying in the same region, and would 

 be splitting hairs besides. I have a number of specimens of 

 whitneyii which aproach hoffmani in the concentration of the 

 black markings on, the upper surface. 



11. Melitaea hoffmani Behr. 



Not as common as the preceding, and occurring with it. The 

 ground color of this species is more of a yellow, while that of 

 zvhitneyii is fulvous. 



* Rep. Wheeler Exp., V, 759. 



