214 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



341. Chrysophanus Mariposa. 



Plate XXVIII; Figures 341, b. 



Fig. 341, Male, Sierras of Central California, July, 1892; 



Author. 



b. Female, Sierras of Central California, July, 1892; 



Author. 



Mariposa is a small-sized butterfly, for one of this genus, and it 



has no sign of a tail, so that, although it looks much like others 



in point of color and markings, it is readily separated. It is a 



mountain species, and I have found it to be quite rare everywhere. 



342. Chrysophanus Xanthoides. 



Plate XXVIII ; Figures 342, b, c. 



Fig. 342, Male, Southern California plains, June, 1895 ; 

 Author. 



b. Female, Southern California plains, June, 1895 ; 



Author. 



c, Female, underside. Greenhorn Mountains, July, 



1888; Author. 

 This is the largest Chrysophanus of the West Coast. It is gen- 

 erally a plains species, though later in the season it can be found 

 well up on the hills and mountains of moderate height. It is quite 

 easy to confuse the females of this and the next, Gorgon, but if you 

 note the lines and dots at the anal angle on the under side of hind 

 wing, you will not get them mixed. 



343. Chrysophanus Gorgon. 



Plate XXVIII ; Figures 343, b, c. 



Fig. 343, Male, Riche Canyon, S. Cal., June, 1899 ; Author. 



b. Female, Cabazon, Southern California, 1898; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside, Mendocino County, Cal., 



June, 1894; Author. 

 Gorgon, the male, in the south is a fiery-red fellow, looking like 

 red-hot iron glossed with violet. More to the north the color is 

 subdued. The female Gorgon is tinted with coffee-color on the 

 under side of both wings, and all the submarginal dots and lunules 

 are separate, and not tied together with white lines, or lines of any 

 color. 



