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are very similar in inaculation ; the type localities mentioned are several 

 places in the general vicinity of Lake Tahoe, Calif. (Edw., Behr) and 

 Mt. Nebo, Utah (Putnam); judging by series before us the Utah 

 form is more or less constant, i. e. S 's and 9 's closely resemble 

 each other, but in the Sierra Nevadas of California it is only rarely 

 that we find a 9 which is not much more heavily marked than the 

 S ; for this reason we would restrict the name mcnctricsi Hy. Edw. 

 to the 9 from Utah, this type, ex Coll. Am. Mus., being figured by 

 Skinner in Ent. News XXVII, p. 216, PI. XII, Fig. 3. If this be done 

 the name baldur Edw. with lusca Stichel as a synonym will be appli- 

 cable to the Sierra Nevada race of smaller size than typical clodius 

 and with reduced ocelli on the secondaries ; Edwards' figure 2 is exactly 

 the same thing as lusca Stichel, having the lower ocellus reduced to a 

 black dot. 



The synonymy will then stand 

 clodius Men. Coast Range of Calif. 



a claudianus Stichel Wash. ; Vane. Is. 



ab. altaurus Dyar Idaho 



/' gallatinus St'ich. Mont. 



(• baldur Edw. Sierra Nevadas, Calif. 



lusca Stich. 

 ab. lorquini Obcrth. 

 d menetriesi Hy. Edw. Utah. 



ab. immaculata Skin. 

 The race gallatinus Stich., is imknown to us ; it is based on the 

 S and 9 figures of clodius in Elrod's Butterflies of Montana (p. 16, 

 fig. 15) and differs in having in the S sex the spot on inner margin 

 of primaries joined to the costal spots by a black band; this is prob- 

 ably an individual aberration, the form otherwise being intermediate 

 between claudianus and menetriesi. 



