THE LEIMDOPTERIST 



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XX. F. 191, "So. Ariz.") I would judge this form to 

 be more closely related to pola than to minuta. We 

 possess specimens from Colorado tallying with this 

 form on the upper side, but which have a much greater 

 proportionate area of cream-white on the under sur- 

 face, showing distinct pola affiliations. Intergrades 

 between these forms occur, (h'igures 5-6.) 



I believe the forms characterized by dark ground 

 color with a band of whitish through the discal area 

 may be considered typical nympha, and the lighter 

 checkered forms with two shades of buff spots as a 

 ground color may be accounted typical pola. 



Our Tulare County captures differ from all of the 

 above in several particulars, and may be described as 

 follows : 



Melitaea monache sp. nov. Figures 1 to 3. 

 Male. Upper side. Primaries, ground color uniform 

 ochrous, crossed by numerous irregular fine black 

 lines. Outer margin fringed with alternate black and 

 white, the black at ends of nervules, with the white 

 slightly in excess. Fine double marginal stripe tend- 

 ing to fuse into a single black wide marginal line. 

 Limbal area, nervules very finely lined with black. A 

 series of irregular narrow broken black lines crossing 

 the limbal area at right angles to the fine striped 

 nervules. which marks off a series of irregular squares 

 and oblongs. The outer band of yellow thus defined 

 is however made up of dentate rather than squared 

 spots. The black lines are partly or completely want- 

 ing between the 2nd and 3rd median nervules (more 

 marked in the female). In the inner portion of discal 

 area a heavy tortuous black line shaped somewhat as 

 a cupid's bow, tending to be interrupted at the 3rd 

 median nervvile. At the outer end of discal cell an 

 irregular ochrous oblongate spot bordered with black. 

 Discal cell crossed by two wavy black lines. At the 

 base of the cell a narrow black constricted O enclos- 

 ing an ochrous spot. Below the discal cell an irregular 

 figure 8. 



Upper side. Secondaries. Fringe and marginal 

 lines as on primaries. Nervules, narrow black lines. 



