GENUS AMBLYSCIRTES 249 



450. Pamphila Python. Not elsewhere illustrated. 



Plate XXXII ; Figure 479, Male, Santa Rita Mts., Ariz., 



1893 ; F. Stephens. 



By unavoidable incident this figure was obliged to be inserted 



on a plate out of regular order. Python is found only in a strip 



of country along the Mexican line; it is scarcely an American 



species. 



482. Pamphila Cestus. Not elsewhere illustrated. 



Plate XXXII ; Figure 482, Santa Rita Mountains, 1893 ; 

 F. Stephens. 

 This figure is inserted out of regular order. The name is stand- 

 ing among the Pamphilas, but I think erroneously, and I include 

 it among the Pamphilas under protest. 



453. Pamphila Melane. 



Plate XXXI ; Figures 453, b, c. 



F'g- 453' Male, Southern California, 1895 ; Author. 



b. Female, Greenhorn Mountains, June, 1888; 



Author. 



c. Female, underside, San Bernardino, Cal., 1899; 



Author. 



This fine large Pamphila was named in 1869, after which it was 

 not seen for sixteen years, and the species was thought to be 

 "lost," but in 1885 it was rediscovered by the Author, and it was 

 then accounted to be a dimorphic female of Campestris, but after 

 effort to establish the male sex, during which investigation it was 

 dissected by Dr. Scudder, it was at length placed in its proper 

 position. Since these early days the species has spread over the 

 whole of the south end of the State, and has become quite common. 



The egg is white, sub-globose, smooth, and is oviposited on Ber- 

 muda grass, but there must be some other food-plant, for the 

 butterfly was found before the late-coming Bermuda grass became 

 introduced into California about 1880. 



Geuns AMBLYSCIRTES. 



454. Amblyscirtes Simius. 



Plate XXXI ; Figures 454, b, Male and Female, underside, 

 Arizona. 

 There are no species belonging to this genus on the Pacific 

 Coast proper. These two species are figured here because they are 



