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markings in the fulvous replacement of the forewings; and a broad 
black band on the upper half of the outer margin of the hindwings. 
It still keeps the row of black-encircled blue-centered eye spots on 
the hindwings. The larger fulvous spot below the apical row of 
white spots is large. The fulvous patch in the costo-apical black 
area is still present. I have before me three specimens from the 
following places:—Berkeley, August 3, 1917 (Graves); November 
5, 1911 (Graves); San Francisco (Cottle); San Francisco, October 
10, 1917 (Huguenin). 
Vanessa carye var. letcheri var. nov. 
The striking difference from muelleri lies in the entire disappear- 
ance of the fulvous spots or band of spots in the costo-apical black 
area, leaving a solid black, quadrangular area. The two fulvous 
patches below the apical row of white spots are much larger, and 
nearer the larger, basal fulvous area, leaving only a narrow black 
connection to the quadrangular black area and wider black outer 
margin. The basal portion of the hindwings is blacker than in 
muelleri. The following specimens have been examined :—Cas- 
tella, Shasta Co., June 1913 (Cottle); Berkeley, July 20, 1917 
(Graves); July 30, 1917 (Graves); Los Angeles, July 1915 (Harold 
Burkhardt); Los Angeles, July 1915 (Karl Skolfield); 18th Street 
Square, San Francisco, September 24, 1917; Oakland, September 
4, 1917; October 9, September 17 (Huguenin). 
In all these variations the black discal dash in the costal side of 
the large fulvous area of the primaries remain practically un- 
changed; all the other markings become more or less altered. 
In 1898 the variety letcheri was apparently not known in collec- 
tions and the variety muelleri was “‘very rare,’ but Letcher men- 
tioned the fact that Mueller had some intergrades between carye 
and muelleri in two directions; one is like the one here named inter- 
media, and the other with the blue spots of the secondaries replaced 
by white and without any change in the primaries. The apical 
white spots are either blurred, smaller, or lengthened out in the 
direction of the apex, and indefinite. ‘These remarkable and signif- 
icant variations seem to be increasing and tending in the direction 
of letcheri. Letcher recorded the variations known to him as taken 
only in the fall, but they are now known to be found throughout 
the year. 
