140 Tryon Reakirt on Coloradian Butterflies. 



I have not seen the closely allied Whitneyi from the Rocky Moun- 

 tains ; all the specimens which I have examined from that locality are 

 possessed of the diagnostic ocellus in each of the orange-colored spots 

 of the submargiual band, on the under side of the secondaries, and I 

 may here incidentally remark, that this characteristic is much more 

 prominent in these, than in any Califbrnian specimens, that I have 

 seen ; indeed, I have a 9 example, which differs much from Palla in 

 size and in the shape of the spots, and colorous dilution of the upper 

 surface, and must have been regarded, but for the presence of these 

 eye-spots, as new and undescribed. 



Very common on the mountain roads in July. 



Melitsea Hoffmanni, Behr. 



Behr, Proe. Calif. Acad. Fat. Sciences, p. 89. (1863.) 



Hub.— Rocky Mts., Colorado Territory; California. (Coll. Tryon 

 Reakirt.) 



One example of this very distinct species, differing in no respect 

 from Californian specimens before me. 



Melitaea Chalcedona, Doubled. 



Diurnal Lepidoptera. I, p. 180, n. 21, t. 23, f. 1. (1847.) 

 Hab. — Rocky Mts., Colorado Territory; California. (Coll. Tryon 

 Reakirt.) 



Melitaea Anicia, Doubled. 



Diurnal Lepidoptera, I, p. 179, n. 6, t. 23, f. 2. (1847.) 



Hab. — Rocky Mountains, Colorado Territory; California. (Coll. 

 Tryon Reakirt.) 



Both these species, I have received from the west or Utean side of 

 the Mountains only, and have never seen either from their eastern 

 slopes. 



Cooper i\ does not appear to inhabit this locality, and nubigena, 

 also seems to be restricted to the west coast, whence I have specimeus 

 of both. 



Following Dr. Cajetan Felder,* and Mr. Hewitson,-j- I have consider- 

 ed the following species as belonging to the genus Eresia : 



*" Melitaea Nycteis, Ismeria, Tharos, Thymetus, Theona, und die verwandten 

 Arten gehoren wegen der diinner behaarten Palpen zu Eresia." — Ein neues 

 Lepidoptemn, <tc.,p. 49. (1S01.) 



f " I have thought that the Xorth American species, which were 



put with Melitaea in Doubleday and Hewitson's Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera, 

 would be better associated with Eresia; they cannot be separated from E. Hera 

 and Ianthe, which Mr. Doubleday considered as belonging to this genus." — 

 Exotic Butterflies, part 00. (1864.) 



