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seem to be that of colon Edw. but his underside figure is correct ; what 

 he figures as rubicunda (Fig. 162) is really the true baroni. 



E. rubicunda Hy. Edw. (PI. X, Fig. 3). 



In the original description (Papilio I, p. 52, 1881) the type local- 

 ity is given as the Sierra Nevada Mts. at from 2500-7000 ft. elevation. 

 In Butt. N. Am. Vol. Ill, Mel. II, W. H. Edwards quotes Henry Ed- 

 wards as stating that Mendocino Co. is the home of rubicunda and a 

 specimen is figured taken by Mr. O. Baron in the Comptche district 

 of Mendocino at an altitude of less than 2000 ft; we cannot see that 

 this specimen is any other than baroni; it is a little larger than the 

 specimens figured as baroni by W. H. Edwards on the previous plate 

 but Edwards' specimens were probably undersized, due to breeding ; 

 both W. H. and Henry Edwards state that the types of baroni came 

 from Mendocino Co. and in a long series before us from the same 

 locality we can match either of the figures excellently. We have re- 

 cently, through the kindness of Prof. E. T. Owen, seen a series of a 

 Mclitaea taken by Prof. Rivers at Tulare, Calif., which proves, after 

 a comparison with the type in the Hy. Edwards' Collection, to be the 

 true rubicunda; it is very similar to baroni on the upper side and can 

 very readily be confused with this species ; it is however rather larger 

 with considerably more red on the secondaries, resembling in this re- 

 spect nubigena Behr, just as stated by Henry Edwards in his original 

 description ; on the underside of the secondaries the outer fourth of 

 the median yellow band, beyond the dividing black line, is the same 

 color as the inner portion whereas in baroni it is generally distinctly 

 red, the same color as the submarginal row of spots. It is probably 

 this species which Behr called anicia Dbldy. and to which he compared 

 his nubigena in the original description (Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. Ill, 91, 

 1863). The home of the species seems to be the valleys of the High 

 Sierras between the Yosemite Valley and Mt. Whitney ; it is extreme- 

 ly close to augusta Edw. (quino Behr) and will probably prove to be 

 merely a local form of this species. We figure a $ which agrees 

 almost exactly with Hy. Edwards' type. 



E. quino Behr. 



In 1907 Fordyce Grinnell, in a paper in the Can. Ent. Vol. 39, 

 p. 380, claims that this much disputed and misidentified species is the 

 same as that described later by W. H. Edwards as augusta; there is 

 a good deal in favor of this suggestion which is further supported by 



