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high mountains of the West Coast, and will therefore give a figure 

 of it. Meadi is quite strongly tinted with green, which color 

 is more especially seen on the underside. 



95. Colias Elis. 



No figure. 

 An arctic species, said to greatly resemble Meadi, and by some 

 authorities thought to be the same. May be found in Alaska, 

 possibly. 



96. Colias Behri. 



Plate XI ; Figures 96, Male ; b. Female ; c. Underside of 

 Female. 

 This queer little Coliad is an Alpine thing, from the high, cold 

 vallevs of the Sierras, from Yosemite, northward, at an altitude of 

 about 10,000 feet. It is small enough and dusky enough to be an 

 exile from the north pole itself, apparently. All these examples 

 were taken by Mr. Lembert, my correspondent and friend, who 

 lived there a hermit's life, and at the last died there a hermit's 

 death, and whose cowardly, Mexicanesque ambushment and 

 assassination remain to this day unavenged. 



Genus TERIAS. 



This small genus is similar in some points to Pieris ; and in 

 some resembles Colias. It is less arctic in habit, and never has the 

 round silver spot on underside of hind wing that distinguishes 

 all the members of the genus Colias. Some of the species have the 

 same food-plant, trifolium. 



97. Terias Nicippe. 



Pl.-\te XII ; Figures 97, Male ; b, Female. 



Nicippe is almost universal all over the United States, being 

 rare in the New England States, and wholly absent in the north- 

 west part of the country west of the Cascades, being present on 

 the Coast only in Southern California, and is seen there only in 

 limited numbers. 



The food-plant is cassia, and other leguminous plants. 



98. Terias Mexicana. 



Plate XII : Figures 98, Male : a, Male. 

 Terias Me.xicana is found in the United States only in the south- 

 ern part of Arizona, and therefore is not of great interest gener- 



