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confluent on primaries, and a submarginal row of yellow, usually very 

 small on primaries ; on same wings a third row of large yellow spots, and 

 a fourth row red, or sometimes red partly replaced by yellow ; around the 

 end of cell and to lower median nervule a yellow row, sometimes obsolete 

 below cell, the remainder appearing to branch from fourth row ; in the 

 cell four spots, red and yellow alternately from the arc, and a yellow patch 

 below cell. On secondaries the third row is of large red spots, the fourth 

 of large yellow ; a red stripe along upper side of cell and at end ; two 

 yellow spots in cell and another below ; fringes blackish at the ends of the 

 nervules, white in the interspaces. 



On under side the spots are repeated, enlarged, nearly concealing the 

 black ground on both wings ; and on primaries are as distinctly defined 

 as on secondaries, the red bright; the spots of common marginal row 

 confluent, of the submarginal large, crescent ; the red spots of third row 

 on secondaries have each a slight yellow edging except on the posterior 

 side ; next comes a black line, and a row of narrow red spots entirely 

 across wing as in Rubicunda, separated by a black line from the dorsal 

 row of yellow spots ; thence to base red, with four yellow confluent spots 

 crossing the area from costa to submedian, and a fifth at outer end of cell. 



Female. — Expands 2.7 to 1.8 inch. 



Like the male on both surfaces. 



The preparatory stages of this species were described by me in Can. 

 Ent., vol. xvii., p. 1^6, 1885, as of M. Rubicunda, H. Edw., but a better 

 acquaintance with both forms makes it certain that they are distinct 

 species, though closely allied. Taj/ori is considerably the smaller, more 

 constant to one type, the spots of under side not light yellow, as in Rubi- 

 cunda, but either white or white with a mere tint of yellow. Rubicunda 

 is a very variable species in all its markings. 



I have named this Melitaea for the Rev. Geo. W. Taylor, of Victoria, 

 by whose kind aid very much knowledge has been gained of Vancouver 

 butterflies. I received larvae from Mr. James Hetcher, Sept., 1884, sent 

 him by Mr. Taylor. 



These were in hibernation, lived through the winter, were fed on 

 Chelone glabra, the plant of M. Phaeton, and some of them pupated and 

 gave butterflies. I related in the paper spoken of that one larva, soon 

 after waking in spring of 1885, became lethargic, and on 23rd May I 

 returned it to the ice box. On 6th July, I brought it to my room, but 



