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space, but here not so as to touch the t. p. line. This outer line may 

 be broken. Hind winars translucent, diffusely clouded, the disk 

 yellowish, the rairginal and inner areas and discal spot darker 

 gray, relieved by a small light spot in the submedian interspace at 

 the margin. Below shaded with crimson on the margins. Head^ 

 thorax and legs rerldish, collar yellow; abdomen ochreous at sides, 

 and tip. Expanse 32 ram. 



$ Wings partly aborted and apparently not functional for flight- 

 Coloration as in the male but the markings bi'oader and heavier and 

 the ground color of a more crimson shade Expanse 27 ram. Outer 

 edge oi patagia and stripes on thorax yellow : abdomen dull crim- 

 son, a few ochreous hairs along the sides and tip ; legs all red- 



Nushagak. Alaska (McKay), Point Barrow (Murdock) and Be- 

 thel, Kuskoquira River (through Dr. Skinner). 3c?. !?• United 

 States National Museura, type No. 4,250. 



Arctia caja. Linn. 



The Alaskan specimens are smaller than usual, but have the 

 bright red hind wings of the caja form. The white markings of 

 the fore wings are very extensive, more so than in var. utahensiSy 

 but not so much as in the type of c»p?(Ze/4to. They seera to be the 

 norraal arctic form of which opulenta is probably an aberration. 



Parasemia petrosa. Walk. 



This species mav reach Alaska. "We have the true modesta form 

 frora Kluchavski, Karachatka (Dr. Stejneger), indistinguishable 

 from Coloradan exaraples, and I think that our species is the sarae 

 as the European plantaginis. At any rate, the break, if there i& 

 one, is not coincident with the dividing line between North Araer- 

 ica and Asia. 



A HYBRID BETWEEN LIMENTIS URSULA AND L. 

 ARCHIPPUS. 



By L. I. HOLDREDGE. 



This specimen was captured at Oueonta, New York, June 

 11th, 1893. The upperside is the color of Daiiais berencie and the 

 fore wings are marked as in L. archippus ; the hind wings are also 

 like this species except that the space beyond the black line cross- 

 ing the limbal area is entirely black with a band of large brick-red 

 spots parallel to the black line ; on either side of these is a row of 

 small blue crescents. The underside is neai-est ursula as it has the 

 brick red spots of that species; it differs from ursula in having in- 

 terior to the row of red spots on the iufex'iors, a line of white spots 

 extending frora the costa to the interior margin. The specimen is 

 a male and is about the size of the male of Z. archippus. It is 

 quite a handsome butterfly and should probably be called Limen- 

 itis Ursula archippus, hybrid. Fanciful names for hybrids are ob - 

 jectionable. It is best to indicate by the name what they re illy 

 are. 



