168 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



for Dr. Barnes. It is called a variety of Mylitta, but I think it 

 will yet be recognized as a species. It is not known to the west- 

 ward of Colorado, at present, but it is likely to be found up to 

 the eastern base of the Sierra Nevadas, and, therefore, I give it 

 place here. It will some day be found in Eastern Oregon and 

 Washington. 



205. Phyciodes Montana. 



Plate XXI ; Figures 205, b, c. 



Fig. 205, Male, Sierra Nevada Heights, 7,000 feet, 1892; 

 Author. 



b. Female, Sierra Nevada Heights, 7,000 feet, 



1892; Author. 



c, Female, underside. Sierra Nevada Heights, 7,000 



feet, 1892; Author. 

 This, of all Phyciodes, is the high mountain species, not flying 

 at a less elevation than 6,000 feet, and from that up to 9,000 feet. 

 It is mostly found on the Sierra Nevadas of California ; I have 

 never taken it on any other mountains, though there is no visible 

 reason why it should not be taken in Oregon and Washington. 



206. Phyciodes Picta. 



Plate XXI ; Figures 206, b, c. 



Fig. 206, Male, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, July, 

 1892 ; F. Stephens. 



b, Female, Greaterville, Arizona, June, 1885 ; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside, Santa Rita Mountains, July, 



1892; Stephens. 

 Picta is a species belonging to the Middle West, being found 

 in Nebraska, and thence south through the Rocky Mountain re- 

 gion to the Santa Ritas of Southern Arizona, which is, so far as 

 I know, the most western locality, the only point upon the West- 

 ern slope inhabitated by this butterfly. 



Genus ERESIA. 



Only one species of Eresia is found on the West Coast ; and 

 that one is found only in Arizona along the Mexican line, at 

 Yuma and other points on the Lower Colorado River. 



