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color more or less surrounded by pale yellow; terminal and basal areas leathery 

 brown the latter shaded with yellow. 



2 . Similar to $ in maculation but rather paler and showing a tendency 

 for all the rows of spots on secondaries above to become brown. Expanse $ 

 32 mm. ; $ 36 mm. 



Habitat: White Mts., Ariz. 6 $,6 9. Types, Coll. Barnes. 



The species belongs in the anicia-maria group and may prove to 

 be a race of either one of these forms ; from anicia it is easily sepa- 

 rated by the much paler shade of the underside ground-color which 

 lacks all the red tints ; from both forms it differs in the sharply defined 

 and black-bordered submarginal lunules on primaries above vein 3 ; 

 the secondaries show a very clean-cut maculation of a decided check- 

 er-board pattern, due to the sharp black defining lines of the various 

 bands. There is considerable variation in the color and distinctness 

 of the red and yellow bands of upperside as is usual in this group; a 

 rather larger and brighter colored form of what is seemingly this 

 species, approaching very close to maria on the upper side, occurs in 

 the vicinity of Pagosa Springs, Colo., but further study of more mate- 

 rial and especially of life-histories will be necessary before the range 

 of each species can be determined or indeed before we can tell whether 

 we are dealing with good species or mere races ; for the present we 

 are content to differentiate the form magdalena which is readily rec- 

 ognizable and, to judge by about forty specimens before us, runs quite 

 true to type, at least in its type locality. 



Melitaea hoffmanni segregata var. nov. (PI. XI, Figs. 8-10). 



Typical hoffmanni as figured by Holland, Butt. Book PI. 17, Fig. 

 13, is distinguished by the post-discal area on primaries being largely 

 pale orange with the three bands of spots ill-defined and not well sepa- 

 rated by black lines; on the secondaries the three bands of orange 

 spots are large and distinct, the inner one being pale yellowish and 

 composed of large oblong spots, especially in the 9 {'■idc PI. XI, 

 Figs. 11, 12). 



In a series of specimens from Crater Lake, Oregon, we note a 

 decided deepening of the orange color, combined with an extension 

 of the extradiscal black areas, the bands of spots being better defined 

 on the primaries, especially in the 9 , on the secondaries the middle 

 row of the three extradiscal rows tends toward obsolescence and the 

 inner one is reduced in size. On the under side of secondaries the 



