3O2 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. [July, '14 



Melitaea neumoegeni Skinner, 1895. 



About four years ago I caught what I thought was a new 

 species, named it M. wiarialta, and sent photographs and a 

 description to the NEWS. Dr. Skinner, however, wrote me that 

 he had named it neumoegeni and that the description could be 

 found in the NEWS, Volume 6, page 113, April, 1895. The 

 types were taken, I believe, by the late Mr. Neumoegen in 

 Utah and from the description I judge they are all males. 



Dr. Skinner's description tallies closely with about forty 

 male specimens which I have taken in the past four years. 

 These males are of such a uniform, fulvous color on upper 

 side, and the black markings are so light that their general 

 appearance is much like a small Argynnis. No other Melitaea 

 approaches it in uniformity of coloration. The fulvous dark- 

 ens only slightly at the base of the secondaries and not at all 

 on the primaries. The under side, especially of the second- 

 aries, shows it to belong to the gabbi group. 



Tn 1911, near Goldroad, Arizona, I was fortunate enough to 

 see four females and to capture two of them. In appearance 

 and habits they differ so widely from the males that, had I not 

 seen one pair trying to mate and another actually in copula- 

 tion, I would have been very uncertain as to their identity, 

 even though I have never seen any other species of Melitaea in 

 this vicinity during four years of collecting. 



Of the two female specimens which I have, one was taken 

 near Goldroad, Arizona, on March 30, 1911. In size and 

 markings it is almost exactly like the illustration of the male, 

 M. augusta, shown in Plate 14, No. 169, of Wright's Butter- 

 flies of the West Coast. The only observable difference is in 

 the black bar dotted with a row of round spots across the ends 

 of primaries. This is exactly as in the next figure, No. 1696. 

 On the other specimen, taken at Little Meadows, near Gold- 

 road, on October 4, 1911, the primary is almost the same as 

 the above, but the secondary is almost solidly red and black 

 with hardly a trace of the pale, buff spots. The under sides of 

 both specimens are alike and similar to the males, except that 



