202 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



season butterfly, of spring and summer and autumn alike, on the 

 small hills and foothills and the mountain sides up to a moderate 

 elevation. 



The eggs are oviposited on the leaves of Eriogonum fascicu- 

 latum. 



297. Lemonias Palmeri. 



Plate XXVII ; Figures 297, b, c. 



Fig. 297, Male, Colorado Desert of California, 1899; 

 Author. 



b, Female, Colorado Desert of California, 1899; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside, Colorado Desert of Califor- 



nia, 1899; Author. 

 Palmeri is not an orthodox coast dweller, as it lives in the 

 deserts of the interior, at the bases of desert mountains. In its 

 own localities it is extremely abundant, and flies in numbers about 

 the bushes of Beleperone Californica, its larval food-plant. The 

 bright red flowers of the plant are used by the Indians to make 

 dye, red in color, but which fades to a yellow if not fixed by a 

 mordaunt. 



298. Lemonias Nais. 



Plate XXVII ; Figures 298, b, c. 



Fig. 298, Male, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, June, 

 1903 ; F. Stephens. 



b, Female, Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona, June, 



1903 ; F. Stephens. 



c, Female, underside, Santa Rita Mountains, 



Arizona, June, 1903 ; F. Stephens. 

 I illustrate the male, female and the underside of this beautiful 

 species. These were taken in the Santa Ritas, although it is 

 stated that Nais lives only on the east side of the continental divide, 

 so that statement is incorrect, for the Santa Ritas are in the basin 

 of the Salt River, a tributary of the Colorado. I have no data as 

 to the elevation at which these examples were taken, but it must 

 have been at 5,000 to 7,000 feet altitude. 



299. Lemonias Zela. 



Plate XXVII ; Figure 299, Santa Rita Mountains, June, 

 1893 ; Stephens. 



