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187. Melitaea Leanira. Not correctly illustrated elsewhere. 

 Plate XX ; Figures 187, b, c. 



Fig. 187, Male, no data, unknown collector. 



b, Female, Northern California, 1880? O. T. Baron. 



c. Female, underside, Lake County, Cal., June, 



1892 ; Author. 



This figure of the male was obtained by me from an unknown 

 collector at San Francisco, and is given here because of its small 

 size, it being the smallest I have seen ; the figures of the females 

 are of large sized examples, showing a wide variation. Leanira 

 flies in Northern California, and is the most northern member of 

 this group. It is rather solitary in habit, and is never found com- 

 monly or in numbers, as many kinds are ; this feature holds good 

 also with the other members of this group, that they are scatter- 

 ing, and nowhere abundant. 



The group consists of Leanira, Wrighti, Cerrita, Alma. Cyneas 

 should be included if it were an American species ; also the varie- 

 ties Leona, previously illustrated, and Obsoleta, from the Rocky 

 Mountains. 



188. Melitaea Wrighti. 



Plate XX ; Figures 188, b, c. 



Fig. 188, Male, Little Mountain, So. Cal., March 25, 1895 ; 

 Author. 



b. Female, Riche Canyon, April 10, 1882; Author. 



c. Female, underside. Foothills, S. B. Mountains, 



1885 ; Author. 

 This is the Southern California representative of this group, 

 being more abundant here than elsewhere, and not extending far 

 from this particular region. It flies in spring and summer, but 

 is not seen on the wing in the later months. Not common any- 

 where, and only occasionally taken under the best circumstances. 



189. Melitaea Cerrita, n. s. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XX ; Figures 189, a, b. 



Fig. 189, Male, Southern California, May 19, 1896; 

 Author. 



a, Male, underside, Southern California, May 19, 



1896; Author. 



b. Female, Southern California, May 19, 1896; 



Author. 



