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177. Melitasa Whitneyi. 



Plate XIX; Figures 177, b, c. 



Fig. 177, Male, Summit, Cal, June 28, 1892; Author. 



b, Female, Summit, Cal., June 28, 1892; Author. 



c. Female, underside. Summit, Cal., June 28, 1892 ; 



Author. 



This is a mountain butterfly like the two preceding, but its range 

 is quite limited as compared with those two ; it is common about 

 Lake Tahoe, and it comes as far south as the Greenhorn Moun- 

 tains, and it is also common in Nevada, or at least, that part of 

 Nevada that lies next to California; it is not known far to the east 

 of the Sierra Nevada range of mountains. 



178. Melitasa Eremita, n. s. Not illustrated elsewhere. 

 Plate XIX; Figures 178, b, c. 



Fig. 178, Male, Central California, June, 1894; Author. 



b. Female, Central California, June, 1894 ; Author. 



c. Female, underside. Central California, June, 



1894; Author. 



Expanse, 1.60 to 1.85; ground-color, brownish-black; a thin 

 marginal line of red spots, and a sub-marginal line of small or- 

 ange angled or lunular spots across both wings, an inner line 

 or row across both wings of yellow or red ; discal band of yellow- 

 ish oval spots ; base, black with obsolescent spots. Beneath, fore 

 wing marked after the pattern of Whitneyi, but clearer and with 

 more black, the hind wing after the pattern of Whitneyi, and with 

 the row of red spots outside the mesial band ocellated with yellow. 



This fine new species was taken by me in a hilly region in Cen- 

 tral California. These two examples are all that were taken, 

 perhaps because at the time I did not realize the value of the 

 prize that had fallen to my net. The right-hand wings of the 

 female were broken off to show the underside, as I have no other 

 specimen. I have named it The Hermit because it kept itself hid- 

 den so long, in a favorite butterfly hunting ground. 



179. Melitaea Hermosa, n. s. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XIX; Figures 179, b, c. 



Fig. 179, Male, Southern Arizona, July, 1891 ; Author. 



b. Female, Southern Arizona, June, 1889; Author. 



c, Male, underside, Southern Arizona, June, 1889; 



Author. 



