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158. MELITAEA COOrERl Behr. 

 Cooper's Checker. 

 ^lore dusky above than A. phaeton, red bordered spots smaller, 

 bnt yellowish ones larger, the four rous on fore, and three on hind wings 

 occupy, at least, one half of the wing, and some of the spots are edged 

 with reddish, but there are no prominent red spots in central cell of 

 either wing one yellowish spot in base of f 3re, and three in that of hind. 

 Fig. 28, e. Beneath, brick red; two rows of yellowish spots on fore 

 wings, the outer of crescents and black-ringed, but not crossing wings, 

 second with no rings, oval, and crossing wing, and in central cell are f jur 

 black dashes. On hind wings are three roAvs of black-ringed spots and 

 a spot in central cell, the two outer being confluent. Expands, 2.(.0 to 

 2.25. Habitat, Big Horn Mountains, Montana, Vancouver's Island, 

 and Puget Sountl, "Washington Territory. 



150. MELITAEA CIIALCEDON Doubl-Hew. 

 Califorxia Checker. 



Resembles M. cooperi, but differs above " having the outer mar- 

 ginal red spots small, or occasionally wanting, i^^gwuud color blacker, 

 and in the almost ent're absence of any red on other portions of wing 

 in the female, and in the male, in its being confined to two dots near end 

 of central cell of fore wings, and two others between second and third 

 row of spots. Beneath, the yellow of the first and second row of spots 

 on hind wing, encroaches upon the red interspace, and the spots at base 

 of wing are larger and more confluent. Fig. 20, b. Expands, 2f>C) to 2.20. 

 Habitat, California. 



159a. Melitaea chalcedon dwixellei II. Edw. Differs from 

 the type, in being much suffused with red above, nearly obscuring the 

 yellowish spots, and there is no sub-marginal row of whitish spots. Be- 

 neath, the yellowish spots are much larger, and the red spots are much 

 more broadly edged w^ith black. Habitat, Mt. Shasta, California. 



IGO. MELITAEA COLON Edw. 

 Colon Checker. 

 Similar to M. chalcedon but diffei'S in having no red in the central 

 cell of fore wing above, in having the second row of spots on same wing, 

 mixed red and yellow, and the second row of spots on hind wmgs beneath 

 red with no yellow, and forming a more continuous bar. Expands, 2.00 

 to 2.30. Habitat, Columbia River. Western Washington Territory and 

 Oregon. 



