160 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



183. Melitasa Abnorma, n. v. Xot elsewhere figured. 

 Plate XX; Figure 183, Female; b, same, underside, 



Truckee, Cal., June, 1893 ; Author. 

 This is doubtless an aberration or extraordinary form of the 

 preceding, Hoffmanni, as it seems to bear the hall-mark of that 

 species, but it was found in a different habitat, as I have never 

 taken any Hoffmanni at this particular locaUtv'. 



184. Melitaea Mirabilis, n. v. Xot illustrated elsewhere. 

 Plate XX ; Figures 184, Female ; b, same, underside. 



Lake County, Cal., May, 1894; Author. 

 This marvelous thing is perhaps another and an extreme aber- 

 ration of Hoffmanni, though the locality of capture is some two 

 hundred miles away from any known habitat of Hoffmanni ; still, 

 as in the preceding figure, it seems to bear the face of a Hoff- 

 manni, and so I consider it an aberration of that species. 



185. Melitaea Cyneas. Xot elsewhere illustrated. 



Plate XX ; Figure 185, Female, Huachuca Mts. of Ari- 

 zona ; Dr. Barnes. 

 This is properly a Mexican species, as it only enters American 

 territory a little at the southern boundary of Arizona. 



186. Melitasa Leona, n. v. X'ot elsewhere illustrated. 

 Pl.\te XX; Figures 186, b. 



Fig. 186, Female, San Rafael, Cal., June, 1894; Author. 



b. Female, underside, San Rafael, Cal., June, 1894; 

 Author. 



Expanse, 1.90: The general appearance of the upper side is 

 that of a melanic Leanira, the buff spots on fore wing smaller, 

 and on hind wings obsolete or wanting ; on underside the yellow- 

 ish spots are quite unlike, as the curved row of six round spots is 

 absent altogether. 



Leona appears to be a variety of Leanira, was taken in the terri- 

 tory of Leanira, incidentally, by the roadside, while passing 

 through the country on a camping butterfly hunt, in fact, was 

 supposed to be a Leanira until it was examined, later, at camp. 

 The example is unique, and, as in several other cases, one pair of 

 wings had to be detached in order to show the underside, because 

 in this butterfly, as in most instances, the marked variation is on 

 the underside. 



