GENUS MELIT^A 14T 



154. Melitaea Colon. 



Plate XVIII ; Figures 154, b, c. 



Fig. 154, Male, Eel River Bridge, Cal., May, 1894; Author. 



b, Female, Mendocino County, Cal., June 20, 1893 ; 



Author. 



c, Male, underside, Mendocino County, Cal., June 



22, 1894; Author. 



Colon is a hill species of Northern California, inhabiting the 

 open places in the partially wooded country, where it is common. 

 The types are said to have been taken on Mt. Hood, but I believe 

 that the collector made a little mistake about that locality. 



Colon is two inches or more in expanse ; it is black in color 

 rather than brown-black ; the light spots are a little more dark 

 buflf than the preceding Cooperi ; and the key to the species is the 

 double row of sub-marginal light spots on upper side of hind 

 wing, and the obsolete marginal red lunules on both wings, though 

 sometimes the second row of light spots is obsolescent, more or 

 less, as all these species are variable. 



155. Melitaea'Quino.j Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XVIII; Figures 155, b. 



Fig- 155, Male, Mendocino County, Cal, June, 1893; 

 Author, 

 b, Female, underside, Mendocino County, Cal., June, 

 1894; Author. 

 Quino is the largest, the most strikingly marked, and the least- 

 known Melitasa of all the old species of California. Male, expanse 

 two inches ; brown-black on upper side, or, as Henry Edwards 

 writes, "Black abounds, and overshadows both white and red ; 

 and Quino has all the markings of underside broadly and con- 

 spicuously edged with black." And Mr. Edwards, of all men, 

 was best acquainted with Quino, and best able to describe it. Be- 

 fore Dr. Behr's death I applied three times to see Quino, without 

 success, so that I concluded he had no Quino examples ; and now 

 that Dr. Behr is dead, his successors appear to be unable to 

 identify Quino. The description of Quino is so brief and so indef- 

 inite that it is of but little value in a complex genus like Melitaea, 

 so that the words above quoted are the best description extant of 

 Quino. Students are referred to Papilio, 1881, p. 52. 





