206 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



310. Thecla Dryope. Not elsewhere illustrated. 

 Plate XXVII; Figures 310, b, c. 



Fig. 310, Male, Greenhorn Mountains, 7,000 feet eleva- 

 tion, 1888; Author. 



b, Female, San Bernardino Mts., May 24, 1895; 



Author. 



c, Female, underside, San Bernardino Mts., June 22, 



1896; Author. 

 Dryope is a very peculiarly colored Thecla, being somewhat of 

 a pale mouse-color, with the disks of all wings paled, or in the 

 female, flushed as well as paled ; on under side all wings are 

 chalky-white, with an anal lunule, as well shown on the plate. 

 Dryope is a very rare species, and it is quite a feat to capture one 

 of them, not that they are wary, but that you may walk a thou- 

 sand miles without seeing one to try your net at. 



311. Thecla Tacita. 



Plate XXVII; Figures 311, b, c. 



Fig. 311, Male, Lake County, Cal., June, 1894; Author. 



b. Female, Greenhorn Mountains, June, 1888; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside. Greenhorn Mountains, June, 



1888; Author. 

 Tacita is allied to Dryope, being smaller, and darker in color, 

 but the flushings on the wings are at the inner angles, and not on 

 the disks, as in Dryope. The figures give a good illustration of 

 the species better than many words could do. Tacita is a moun- 

 tain flyer, very widely scattered, and not plenty at any place. 



313. Thecla Auretorum. 



No figure. 

 This is one of the few Californian butterflies which I know 

 nothing about. It has never been figured, and the literature about 

 it is scanty. Apparently little is known about it. 



314. Thecla Grunus. 



Plate XXVII ; Figures 314, a. 



Fig. 314, Female, San Bernardino Mts., 3,000 feet alti- 

 tude, June, 1886; Author, 

 a, Male, underside, Sisson, Cal, July, 1892 ; Author. 

 Grunus is the third, and the palest of the group to which it be- 

 longs, the other two being Dryope and Tacita ; I have grouped 



