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i66. Melitasa Wheeleri. Not illustrated elsewhere. 



Pl,\te XIX ; Fig. i66, Male, from Colorado ; Dr. Barnes. 

 This has by one or two writers been classed as a variety of 

 Nubigena, but it belongs here, as a variety of Anicia. It is pecu- 

 liar in having a creamy base to the hind wings, this part being 

 almost universally black in all buterflies, and this is about the only 

 exception to the rule. Wheeleri may be looked for on the Sierra 

 Nevadas, and any of the higher mountains of Oregon and Wash- 

 ington, and in the Yellowstone Park. 



167. Melitaea Brucei. Not illustrated elsewhere. 



Pl.\te XIX; Fig. 167, Female, Rocky Mountains of Colo- 

 rado; D. Bruce. 

 This is another of the varieties of Anicia; it comes from the 

 high mountains of Colorado, and is likely to be met with on the 

 higher elevations of the Northwestern States, Wyoming, Idaho, 

 Oregon and Washington. Little is known about it; indeed, I am 

 not aware that any collector but Mr. Bruce ever took the variety; 

 he first found it and it was named for him. 



168. Melitaea Beani. 



Pl.'^te XIX ; Figure 168, Rocky Mountains of Alberta ; 

 from Dr. Barnes. 

 This, the third and last variety that I shall illustrate of the dif- 

 ferent forms of Anicia, is found on the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, well 

 up on the alpine peaks. Found by, and named for, Mr. Bean, an 

 official of the road in that region. It is very dark, as befits a cold 

 mountain species. Presumably it will sooner or later be found on 

 some of the mountains of the western slope, in British Columbia 

 or Washington. 



169. Melitasa Augusta. 



Plate XIX ; Figures 169, b, c. 



Fig. 169, Male, Potato Canyon, Cal., April 22, 1890; 

 Author. 



b, Female, San Bernardino Mts., May, 1886; 



Author. 



c, Female, San Bernardino ]\Its., June, 1903; 



Author. 



