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to be slightly more rounded at the apices. Their opacity is less dense, 

 with indications of a broad transverse mark in a more or less suffused 

 area. In size this race averages smaller and slenderer than exitiosa. 



Expanse : 22 to 28 mm. 



Distribution.— Rocky Mountains, Colo., 6,000 to 10,000 feet. 



Type. — Female. In the United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — S. e. harnesii, described by BeuteimiuUer as a variety of 

 Sanninoidea graefi (Hy. Edwards), is here treated as a geographical race 

 based on personal field investigations, supported by ample material in the 

 collection of the United States National Museum. It is a race indigenous 

 to Rocky Mountain regions at altitudes above peach-orchard cultivation. 

 The males found associated with this race erroneously have been designated 

 by Beutenmiiller as the males of Sanninoidea graefi (Hy. Edwards). 



SANNINOIDEA EXITIOSA race GRAEFI (Hy. Edwards) 



Plate 17, Figure 88 



SciapUvcn graefi Hv. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 183, 1881. 



Acc/eria of^alcscens Hv. Edwards, Papilio, vol. 1, p. 199, 1881. 



Sanintia pacifica Riley, Insect Life, vol. 3, p. 393, 1891. 



Parharmuiiia graefi BeuteiVMULLer. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 89, 1894. 



Sannina opalcscen.<; Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 6, p. 366, 1894. 



Sanninoidea opalesceiis Beutenmuller, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, p. 126, 

 1896; Mem. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 1, pt. 6, p. 271, 1901.— McDunnough, 

 Check list of the Lepidoptera of Canada and the United States of America, pt. 2, 

 No. 8693, 1939. 



Male. — Anteimae black, finely ciliate, palpi, head thorax, and abdomen 

 wholly black with metallic reflections, blue or green. Anal tuft wedge- 

 shaped, sometimes narrowly bordered with white at the sides. Wings 

 hyaline, forewing heavily scaled on costa ; transverse mark and outer 

 margins broad, black with metallic sheen. Legs black, tibiae with whitish 

 tufts at the spurs. 



Female.- — Antennae black, simple. Palpi, head, thorax, abdomen, and 

 legs wholly metallic black. Anal tuft short, blunt. Primary wings heavily 

 scaled, nearly or quite obscuring the broad transverse mark. 



Expanse : Male 25 to 30 mm. ; female 26 to 32 mm. 



Distribution. — Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Montana. 



Type. — Female. In the United States National Museum. 



Remarks. — Hy. Edwards's original description of graefi, short but 

 adequate, is confined to the female, without mention of the sex. He had 

 three specimens, one male and two females, all bearing identical labels, 

 *'Nev." (Morrison), which had been submitted by E. L. Graef. One 

 female, labeled type, is in the United States National Museum ; another, 

 likewise labeled type, is in the American Museum of Natural History. A 

 male type, so labeled, has not been found. Flowever, the E. L. Graef 

 collection, now in the United States National Museum, contains two addi- 



