82 PSYCHE [August 



Nymphalidae, 



Lemonias eremita Wright. — Eremita proves to be, as I have before suspected, 

 only the dark ? of palla. It seemed incredible to me that a new species of Lemon- 

 ias shoidd turn up in this locality, probably the most thoroughly collected one in 

 California, for it was here that Agassiz, Henry Edwards, Behr, and Lorquin, Bois- 

 duval's collector, did a great deal of their collecting. Wright (Butterflies West 

 Coast) figures two females and a "male", but the latter is undoubtedly a female as 

 can be seen by the shape of the abdomen. Hy. Edwards has written (Pr. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci. and quoted in Mead's Report Wheeler Exj:). 5, 759, 1875), "This (palla) is one 

 of the commonest and most variable of the Pacific Coast butterflies, and is found in 

 every canon in California and Oregon from April to July. It is dimorphous — one 

 form of the female being blackish, while the other is foxy-red. All intermediate 

 grades are found, and suffused varieties are by no means rare." The extreme light 

 female appears to be quite rare, the usual color being blackish, more or less 

 reddish. Whiineyii Behr I would consider only a mountain form of palla. Wright 

 records specimens of both palla and ivhitneyii from Summit, California. Hy. 

 Edwards also writes under palla, "The form described by Dr. Behr as Melitaea 

 whiineyii is, I think, only a mountain variety, as I have recently met with some 

 specimens near San Francisco which bear a remarkable resemblance to his types." 



I doubt that, if in good series, the two forms could be correctly picked out. 

 Lemonias sabina Wright is the light ? of palla. The synon>'my, therefore, I would 

 place as follows: 



Lemonias palla Boisd. 



= eremita Wright 

 = sabina Wright 

 var. whitneyi Behr 



= pola Boisd. 



Lemonias gahbii Behr. — The habitat given for this species by Holland (Butter- 

 fly Book) and Wright (Butt. West Coast) is Southern California. Mr. E. J. New- 

 comer found it abundant this season in a very limited sandy hill at Pacific Grove, 

 Monterey County, in early April. This is probably the northern limit of its range. 



Thcssalia leanira Boisd. var. obsoleta Hy. Edw. — Under the name leona, Mr. 

 Wright has redescribed obsoleta, the types of both coming from San Rafael, in Marin 

 County, California. Mr. F. X. Williams has also taken it at Fairfax in the same 

 county in late May or early June, and he tells me that it intergrades into typical 

 specimens. As far as I am aware, it is known from no other localities. As the 

 original description is probably accessible to but few, I give it ad verbatim: 



