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9. Beenthis epithoee. — Argjnnis epitbore, Edwards, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc. Fhil. ii. p. 504 (1864). Mendocino and Lake Counties 

 in June. 



10. MELiTiEA PALLA, Boisduvol, Ann. Soc. Ent. France, 1852, 

 p. 305. Mendocino and Lake Counties in June. 



11. Melit^a Hoppmanni, BeTir, Proc. Gal. Acad. Nat. Sci. iii. 

 p. 89. n. 4 (1863). Mendocino County, May and June. 



12. Mblit^a Gtabbii, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci. iii. 

 p. 89. n. 3 (1863). Mendocino County (one female). 



13. Melit^a sterope ?, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. 

 Soc. iii. p. 190 (1870). Mendocino and Colusa Counties. 



I feel doubtful about this identification, for altbougb the upper 

 surface of these Californian examples agrees well with the de- 

 scription of Edwards's Oregon specimens, the under surface differs 

 somewhat : the markings described by Edwards as white are in 

 the Californian examples sulphur-yellow, and those described as 

 orange are brick-red ; the large crescents are also not ' marginal,' 

 but submarginal, being followed by an undulated red border and 

 white fringe ; the discal and subbasal markings vary considerably. 



We have received this species from a French dealer with the 

 MS. name M. aspasia, Boisd. ; it appears to me to be allied to 

 what I regard as probably M. Gabhii. 



The North -American species of Melitcea are about the most 

 difficult of all the butterflies of that country to recognize from 

 descriptions only, yet hardly any of them have been figured. In 

 the nearly allied genus PJiyciodes, on the other hand, even the 

 melanistic and other sports produced by rearing under the most 

 abnormal conditions have been largely illustrated. 



14. Melit^a leanira, Felder, Wien. ent. Mon. iv, p. 106. 

 n. 64 (1860) ; Beise der Nov. Lep. iii. pi. 50. figs. 13, 14 (1867). 

 Siskiyou County, July to September. 



15. Melitjba helvia, Scudder, Entom. Notes (Proc. Best. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist. xii. 1868-69), p. 43. Mendocino County. 



Improbable as it seems that this should be identical with the 

 Alaska insect, it fits the description in every thing excepting in 

 being rather more highly coloured, the " blackish fulvous" being 

 replaced by black, and the " fulvous " by red. A somewhat faded 

 example of Lord Walsingham's insect would therefore agree in 



