GENUS MELIT.EA 159 



The types of Colon and this species being from the same place, 

 I have named this smaller and more beautiful one The Little Sis- 

 ter of Colon. Only these two figured examples were taken ; there- 

 fore, to show the peculiar overflow of the red over the buff, I had 

 to detach the left-hand wings of the male, for use on this plate. 



i8i. Melitaea Sabina, n. s. Never before figured. 



Pl.\te XX; Figure i8i. Female, Catalina Mountains; Ari- 

 zona ; Carpenter. 



Expanse, 1.65; all wings pale reddish, broadly spotted with 

 large buffy-red spots, after the pattern of Palla, which seems to be 

 its closest relative. Beneath, the spots on hind wing are pearly- 

 white, like all the species of the Palla group. 



This example was taken in the Catalina Mountains of South- 

 ern Arizona, by Mr. Carpenter, the exact date unknown, and sent 

 to me by W. H. Edwards, in 1889, with the injunction to "look 

 it up and publish it, as it is certainly a new species." It is a very 

 old and worn specimen, and for years I hoped to get others like it, 

 but it has remained all these years in my cabinet, alone, as I have 

 never seen another like it. The ornamentation is peculiar. 



I have named it Sabina, after the canyon where it was taken, in 

 the Catalina Mountains. 



182. Melitaea Hoffmanni. 



Pl^vte XX ; Figures 182, b, c. 



Fig. 182, Male, Sierra Nevadas of California, July, 1892; 

 Author. 



b, Female, Sierra Nevadas of California, July, 



1892 ; Author. 



c. Female, underside. Sierra Nevadas of California, 



July, 1892 ; Author. 



Hoffmanni is a mountain species, frequenting the little valleys 

 about the high mountains. It is said to be found in the moun- 

 tains of nearly all the States of the Great Basin, between the Sierra 

 Nevadas and the Rocky Mountains. It is the mountebank among 

 butterflies, as it has all sorts of disguises and masks, showing many 

 strange variations and aberrations, two of which are depicted here 

 following. 



