158 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



Expanse, 1.60 to 1.80. Both wings salmon-red color, with 

 markings of black and of pale buff, and in the male, of white. 

 Margins reddish ; the male has two sub-marginal rows of white 

 spots on a black ground on fore wing, with several costal and 

 cellular white spots, and all the other spots are salmon or flesh- 

 color. The female has no white spots, all the spots on the female, 

 and on hind wing of male, are pale flesh or buflfy. Beneath, the 

 spots of the male are white, with black lines, on a reddish ground. 



This elegant new species was taken by the Author in Southern 

 Arizona, as noted above, and these three, together with three other 

 males, have stood in my cabinet all these years, labeled, "n. s., 

 undescribed," patiently awaiting this opportunity of displaying 

 their beauties to the world. The colors of the ornamentation are 

 different from any other Melitzea; the red is paled to salmon or 

 flesh color, and the yellow to nearly white. It is indeed a peculiar 

 thing, and one that only Arizona could furnish. 



The name Hermosa is used as signifying handsome or beautiful, 

 for as I look at butterflies, this is the most exquisite Melitaea that 

 flies in America today. 



180. Melitaea Colonia, n. s. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XX ; Figures 180, a, b. 

 Fig. 180, Male, Mt. Hood, Oregon, August, 1891 ; Author. 



a, Male, underside, Mt. Hood, Oregon, August, 



1 891 ; Author. 



b, Female, Mt. Hood, Oregon, August, 1891 ; 



Author. 



Expanse, 1.50 to 1.55; ground color, black; a marginal series 

 of red lunules on both wings, confluent in the female ; a sub-mar- 

 ginal line of buflf-and-red linear dots across fore wings ; an inner 

 sub-marginal row of buff spots across both wings ; inside, another 

 row of red spots ; followed by the discal series of buff, and the 

 red and buff spots in the black base. Beneath, fore wings reddish, 

 with buff spots, not obsolete at base ; on hind wings the outer 

 series of buff spots is immediately followed by a red series, con- 

 fluent, forming a red band, and moreover, on upper side of female 

 hind wings, as well as on both sexes beneath, this red band reaches 

 inward and covers a third part of the usual mesial band of buff 

 spots, a peculiar feature, and not seen in any other Melitaea known 

 to me. 



