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All Lemonias are of gentle flight, feed freely of flowers, and 

 live mostly on the plains and foothills, though some go up the 

 mountain side to an elevation of 7.000 feet. 



294. Lemonias Mormo. 



Plate XXVII ; Figures 294, b. 



Fig. 294, Male, Colorado Desert of California, 1885 ; 

 Author. 

 b, Female, Greenhorn Mountains, California, 1888; 

 Author. 



The upper side of Mormo has never been illustrated previously. 

 The species is not a recent one, having been named in 1859, but 

 the butterfly is today a rare one, at least in California, and con- 

 sequently it is not well known. In twenty-five years' collecting 

 on the West Coast I have found it at two localities only, and those 

 two are of widely differing environment, as noted above, one be- 

 ing a desert place approximately at sea level, and the other at 

 7,000 feet elevation on a forested mountain top. Mormo is said 

 to be found in Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, as well as in Cali- 

 fornia, and it may be that Mormo is more plentiful at some point 

 where I have not been. 



295. Lemonias Cythera. 



Plate XXVII; Figure 295, Female, Santa Rita Moun- 

 tains, June, 1885; Author. 

 This is the largest of the white-spotted Lemonias. It is found 

 on some of the mountains of Southern Arizona, as the Santa 

 Ritas, the Catalinas, Huachucas, and others, but always, I believe, 

 at an elevation of several thousand feet ; thence southward into 

 Mexico, as it is somewhat of a tropical species, and these Arizona 

 mountains are its most northern points. 



296. Lemonias Virgulti. 



Plate XXVII ; Figures 296, b, c. 



Fig. 296, Male, Southern California, 1890; Author. 



b. Female, Southern California, 1890; Author. 



c. Female, underside. Southern California, 1890; 



Author. 

 This species, though rather local, is abundant, and it flies in its 

 favorite restricted localities in countless numbers ; it is an all- 



