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Remarks. — The single male from the Oberthur collection labeled 

 "California" is probably mislabeled. The preponderance of specimens 

 from Colorado and the single specimen from Cisco, Utah, indicate that 

 the population of this variety is restricted in distribution to the 

 mountainous area centering about Colorado. 



ARACHNIS APACHEA, new species 



Plate 10, Figures 3-3c 



Antenna with basal segment cerise anteriorly, buff posteriorly; 

 shaft blackish fuscous; basal two-fifths cream colored above and 

 faintly annulated with cerise; outer three-fifths overlaid with pale 

 gray above. Labial palpus whitish ochreous; basal segment with a 

 conspicuous black spot exteriorly ; second segment bright carmine out- 

 wardly and above; third segment carmine-tipped above. Face gray, 

 broadly edged with black. Head pink with a black median spot 

 posteriorly. Collar pale pink, darker outwardly and edged with black 

 beneath ; on each side a conspicuous black-edged gray spot surrounded 

 by a narrow, attenuated, cream-colored area. Thorax cerise ; mesially 

 a narrow, longitudinal, ochreous line; on each side a longitudinal, 

 dorsal, black-edged, gray stripe; tegula pink, edged with cerise and 

 containing a large, elongate, triangular, black-edged, gray spot. Fore 

 wing cerise with veins faintly buff; costa narrowly edged with buff; 

 along costa five conspicuous, irregular, black-edged, gray spots; ex- 

 tending across wing from these costal spots, five rows of irregular, 

 black-edged, gray spots and dashes; on costa, at apex, an oval gray 

 spot narrowly edged inwardly with black; along termen, between 

 veins 3 and 8, a series of elongate, U-shaped, black-edged, gray 

 dashes; at tornus a conspicuous, round, black-edged gray spot; cilia 

 consisting of alternating buff and gray dashes; the underside more 

 or less suffused with orange-ochreous, the markings less conspicuous 

 and, except for the inner ones, sooty black; the two basal costal spots 

 black. Hind wing semihyaline, cerise; costa rather broadly edged 

 with pale ochreous and with two narrow, poorly defined, fuscous, 

 transverse dashes about middle ; on outer margin, at end of vein lb, 

 a small but conspicuous black spot ; on the underside, the costa marked 

 with conspicuous, black-edged, gray dashes. Legs creamy white, 

 overlaid with cerise and pink and variously marked with black-edged 

 gray spots; tarsi annulated with black. Abdomen cerise above with 

 a faint, longitudinal median, black basal dash ; beneath pink and buff 

 mixed. Anal tuft ochreous beneath mixed with black scales; above, 

 marked with an elongate, median, black, triangular dash. 



Male genitalia. — Harpe with moderately broad, inward projection, 

 roughened on posterior edge; distal end of harpe greatly dilated. 

 Anellus strongly concave laterally. Aedeagus with small distolateral 



