oO ANTIIOCIIARIS LAXCKOLATA. 



Sooomlaries marliled with fiiu' brown lines which booomo almost cKinfliient on inner halt", 

 csiXM'ially at i-osta, whore there are several irregular sha{>eil pure wliite spots, the oue nearest 

 the outer angle being the largest. 



Female resembles the male. 



Habitat. California. 



This has the reputation of being one of the rarest of the Calilbrnian butterHies ; it re- 

 sembles in torm ami gener.il api>earanee the female of our eastern A. Genutia, but is larger, 

 auil the ornamentation of under surface of secondaries is diflcreut from any other American, 

 or, in fact, any species I am acquainted with. 



ANTHOCHARIiii JULIA. Kdwards 



Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. IV, p. 61. (1872.) 



(FL-VTE VI, FIG. 6, cf. 7, ?.) 



Mai.K. Expands 1^ inches. 



Head and bo<ly black above, yellowish beneath ; antenna^ blackish, club with yellow tip. 



I'pjK'r surfaw white ; primaries, black at base; an onvnge apical jvitch, margined by a 

 black kind outwaixlly. the inner etlge of which is scrratetl. inner half of the orange pitch is 

 powdere^l with black atoms : costa, from diset>-cel hilar veins to lase, blackish ; an S shajK^l 

 disc-al niai-k extends to the costa. 



SoiXMidaries black at base : ciliiv black at termination of veins. 



Under surfaiv white : j>riiuaries, apii>al j^rt greiiiish, the orange sjwt not near so vivid as 

 above : distil mark almost divide*! in two at the centre ; costal margin with some indistinct 

 markings. 



Sxxmdaries variegateil with greeaiish grey in a manner nearer approaching A. Genutia 

 than anv otlier sjKxies, that is, all the marks are couuecteil with each other and have a foliate<l 

 not a spotterl api>oarani.v, as in A. Sam and ? var. Rcakirtii : veins yellow. 



Fe>ial>:. Exjunds li inches. 



Upi^r surfece lemon yellow, uiarke«l much as in male, but the orange spot does not 

 extend as tar outwanl, Wing Ixniudeil exteriorly by an irregular blackish sub-marginal line, 

 the sjvace Wtween which and the outer margin is yellow. 



I'ndcr surtacc yellow, uiarke^l as in the other sex. 



All the examples so far known are those taken by Mr. Mead in the pine Ibrests near 

 Fairplav. Colorado, in June, ISTl, and now in Mus. Am. Ent. Soc., T. L. Mead, 

 W. H. Edwiinls, H. Strcoker. 



This prettv species, I think, will hold its own, the variegation of under surface of soeon- 

 daries is jvcnliar and ixmstant and quite different from A. Stira and A. Reakirtii, notwith- 

 standing the great tendency to variation in the latter.* 



•S*r» >nd R«akirtii, 1 believe, are identical. 



