200 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



290. Chionobas Varuna. 



Plate XXVI ; Figure 290, Female, Belt Mountains, Mont., 

 1890; Author. 



Varuna is much like Uhleri, but is larger, browner, and all the 

 markings are stronger and more positive, and it lives in a more 

 northern habitat. It never feeds on flowers, but, like all Satyrids, 

 is short-lived, and has no other business but to play, and to carry 

 on the work of populating the grassy slopes and vales where it 

 lives. 



Like Uhleri, Varuna should be found on foothills and moderate 

 elevations quite up to the eastern base of the Cascades. 



291. Chionobas Subhyalina. 

 Plate XXVI ; Figures 291, b. 



Fig. 291, Male, Rocky Mountains; from D. Bruce, 

 b. Female, Rocky Mountains ; from D. Bruce. 

 This species is from the mountains of British America, north of 

 the United States, and is not supposed to live within our territory. 

 I am not aware that it has ever been taken in Alaska, even ; but 

 if I were a butterfly-hunter, I would look for it on any of the high 

 mountains of the Puget Sound country, or to the northward. 



292. Chionobas Brucei. 



Plate XXVI ; Figure 292, Male, Rocky Mountains of Colo- 

 rado ; D. Bruce. 

 Brucei is apparently the southern form of the preceding. Sub- 

 hyalina, the chief difference being the median band on underside 

 of hind' wing, as well shown in the Plate. 



Like the preceding species, this may be looked for on the moun- 

 tains of the West Coast, ahhough it is not yet known from any 

 other than the Rocky Mountains. 



Genus LEMONIAS. 



This is a small genus of beautiful little butterflies, three species 

 of which live on the coast proper, and three others are from 

 Arizona. The coast species have a reddish ground-color, with 

 white spots scattered over both wings, and the Arizona species 

 have a dark ground with blackish spots, except Cleis, which has 

 white spots. 



