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submarginal band ; whether this will prove of specific value or not we 

 cannot say, but we mention the fact in the hope that it may prove 

 helpful in separating the two forms and elucidating their geographical 

 distribution. Typical melissa we possess in series from Colorado, 

 Utah, Arizona, and N. Mexico ; a very similar form occurs in S. Cali- 

 fornia but further north in the same state we meet with a form, appar- 

 ently quite rare, which has a paler and more brilliant blue in the $ 

 and an almost white underside (as in anna) with the spots reduced in 

 size; this we take to be lotis Lint., described from Mendocino Co., 

 Calif., (PL XI, Fig. 12). The types should be in the Edwards' Col- 

 lection in Pittsburgh but we were unable to find them there ; however 

 in the Henry Edwards' Collection in New York under lotis is a $ 

 from the type locality which agrees perfectly with Lintner's description 

 and is presumably correctly identified ; we have a few specimens from 

 Havilah and Tehachapi, Calif, which agree with it and from which 

 we have made the above notes figuring a specimen from the latter 

 locality. Wright's figures of melissa (Fig. 379) are apparently cor- 

 rect but his lotis (Fig. 383) should be referred to anna. 



Annetta Mead, judging by the $ genitalia, cannot be referred as 

 a variety of anna but belongs in the scndderi-melissa group and is 

 possibly a race of the former. 



Kodiak Edw., according to Wright's figures (1. c. PL 29, Fig. 

 265), which agree well with the description, also falls into this group. 



P. anna Edw. 



This is a good species with the falces of the tegumen in the $ 

 genitalia far less developed than in sendderi; it seems prone to diminu- 

 tion of the eye-spots of the underside and we consider that Behr's 

 cajona is correctly referred as a synonym after examining the type in 

 the Strecker Collection. The food-plant is a yellow-flowering species 

 of Hosackia common on moist hill sides in Northern California. 

 Wright's figures (Fig. 384) are correct; the $ is usually much more 

 scantily marked on the underside than in his Fig. 384c. 



P. saepiolus Bdv. 



As already remarked by us (Ent. Record XXVI, 199) the form 

 with the 9 scaled with blue at the base is the nimotypical form ; this 

 form seems rare in California but Wright figures such a 2 from 

 Emigrant Gap (1. c. PL 29, Fig. 363b) and as this locality corresponds 

 in a general way with the country collected in by Lorquin before 1852 



