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lector, Mr. Morrison, under this name of Bolli, but I believe that 

 it is the same as the next species, Thekla ; if so, as Thekla was 

 named seven years earlier than Bolli, the latter name must be 

 dropped. 



193. Melitaea Thekla. 

 Plate XX; Figure 193. 



Fig. 193, Southeastern Arizona, 1880 ( ?) ; H. K. Alorrison. 

 From the same locality, and evidently the same species as the 

 preceding. This is, I think, a female, and evidently makes a good 

 pair, so that I should say the name Bolli should be merged into 

 Thekla. I have retained both names because all the catalogues 

 contain both, and I am seeking to depict things as I find them. 



194. Melitaea Minuta. 



Plate XX ; Figures 194, b, c. 



Fig. 194, Male, Southern Arizona, 1880? H. K. Morrison. 



b. Female, Southern Arizona, 1880? H. K. Morri- 



son. 



c, Female, underside. Southern Arizona, 1880? H. 



K. Morrison. 

 This is another species from the southern part of the Great 

 Basin country, where so many species are found that more prop- 

 erly belong in jMexico. Alinuta is said to fly to Colorado, and 

 New Mexico. 



195. Melitaea Chara. 



Plate XX ; Figures 195, b. 



Fig. 195, Male, Colorado Desert, April, 1891 ; Author. 

 b. Female, Colorado Desert, April, 1891 ; Author. 

 The word chara signifies "joy" ; this charming little butterfly is, 

 therefore, appropriately named. Chara lives in semi-desert places, 

 or, perhaps, it would be more correct to say that it lives in little 

 fertile nooks and bye-places which are surrounded by deserts and 

 desert mountains, in Southeastern California, Nevada, Utah, 

 Colorado and Arizona. The pattern of ornamentation is very 

 similar to that of Minuta. though the butterfly is of much smaller 

 size. 



The larval food-plant of Chara is Beleperone Californica, a bush 

 three to five feet high, and bearing showy red flowers ; the flowers 

 are used as a dye by the Indians. 



