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from the Soda Springs examples. They were taken in various localities in 

 Northern California in 1879. They are not black, or "brown-black," but 

 of a cinereous-brown, a little dusky over the basal area of, fore wings ; the 

 under side is light brown with a yellow tint throughout, and over the 

 whole area beyond the discal stripe on hind wing there is a gray shade, 

 either whitish or a brown-gray. On this part of the wing the fine dark 

 streaks are obliterated, and the two stripes being heavy and dark, while 

 the intervening space is also darker than other parts of the wing, there is 

 a strong contrast of color between the extra discal area and this so-formed 

 band. The indentation seen in the outer stripe in Ariane is here present, 

 but is deeper. The small ocelli are normally six, but in half the examples 

 they are more or less wanting and are always very small. As to the two 

 females, on the upper side they look like the males, but beneath they are. 

 considerably more cinereous, and that from base to margin, while the 

 discal stripe (or the outer line of the band) is more broken into cren- 

 ations. All this is unlike Ariane and unlike Nephele. While Ariane as 

 described may in both sexes be matched in a series of Nephele, except 

 perhaps in the single point before spoken of, the -indentation against cell 

 in the outline of the band, this form cannot be, and this is as good a test 

 as need be of its distinctness from Ariane. I call this Baroni, after my 

 indefatigable friend, who has contributed so much to our knowledge of 

 the Californian lepidoptera. 



I have recently received from Mr. Morrison, at Olympia, Washington 

 Territory, one $ , two $ , close to Nephele, and yet showing important 

 differences in some respects. The male, placed by the side of a Nephele 

 £ from White Mountains, is undistinguishable on upper surface, being of 

 the same black-brown color, with similar ocelli, these having no rings, but 

 white pupils ; the anal ocellus on both has a white pupil. Beneath, while 

 the eastern example is brown throughout, the other is largely gray-white over 

 whole surface, but especially at apex and along hind margin of primaries, 

 and over the extra discal area of secondaries. The large and small ocelli 

 are alike in both, the latter six in number. The two females are lighter 

 colored thrfn the male, agreeing with many eastern Nephele in this, and 

 also in having a paler shade over the space which in Alope is occupied by 

 the yellow band. About the ocelli are hazy yellow rings. On the under 

 side the stripes of hind wings are nearly lost, the basal one totally in one 

 example. One has three minute ocelli, the other four. The color of this 

 surface is brown with a yellow tint, and the apex and hind margin and 



