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Body above black, deep red hairs on thorax. Under side of 

 thorax covered with long yellow and grey hairs ; abdomen red, 

 yellow along middle ; legs and palpi deep red ; antennae red- 

 brown above, red below ; club dull red above, with some black, 

 red below. 



Female. Expands 2.3 inches, 



Upper side black, marked like the male ; the spots generally 

 larger. Under side like the male in color. Primaries have the 

 submarginal lunules entirely across the wing, narrow, and deeply 

 excavated. The spots of third row edged black on basal side. 

 Secondaries have the sub-marginal spots almost lanceolate, high, 

 narrow, and deeply excavated, edged above and parted by black. 



Form 3^2? taken at Mt. Hood, Oreg. This species may 

 be at once distinguished from CJialccdon by the second red band 

 on secondaries, which is here unbroken, not lunular, and is with- 

 out yellow. In CJialccdon this row is made up of red spots, 

 larger or smaller, on black ground, usually more or less edged 

 yellow. The females of CJialccdon usually have a yellow central 

 point to the red spot ; sometimes the ground is yellow on black, 

 and on this the red spot. I have seen the red belt of Colon in no 

 California CJialccdon. Also in Colon the submarginal yellow lun- 

 ules on secondaries are of quite another shape from CJialccdon, 

 more lanceolate, more deeply excavated. Mr. Morrison took no 

 CJialcedon, but many Colon at Mt. Hood. I have not seen it from 

 any other locality. 



Pyrgus philetas. 



Female. Expands 1.2 inch. 



Upper side of primaries pale black, of secondaries brown ; 

 marked with white much as in P. tcsscllata; the spots smaller; 

 both wings have two parallel rows of dots along the hind margins. 

 Primaries a bent row of spots across the disk ; a spot in cell near 

 arc, two or three below cell, and white dashes along costal mar- 

 gin. Secondaries have a discal row of obsolescent spots, mere 

 streaks ; fringes of primaries, alternately white and pale black ; 

 of secondaries, wholly white. 



Under side of primaries, olive-brown on disk, paler towards 

 hind margin; base and basal part of costa whitish ; the spots re- 

 peated, enlarged. Secondaries white with yellow tint ; no discal 

 band as in tcsscllata, the disk and basal area being white, with 

 a few brown dots and streaks, of which three dots on costal margin 

 are most distinct ; two streaks across cell ; beyond disk are three 

 rows of small or minute spots, the two outer ones correspond- 

 ing in position to the marginal spots of upper side ; these are 

 white, lunular, indistinct, and over them the ground is somewhat 

 dusky; the third, or innermost row consists of brown dots only, 

 at anal angle a dusky patch. 



From a single example received in 1879 from the late Mr. 



