112 Psyche ■ [October 



markings in the fulvous replacement of the f orewings ; 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 caryae 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. 



