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The ordinary Arizona race (typical form) of this species cannot 

 be confused with any other species known to the authors. The upper 

 side of the males is grayish, often with a strong coppery tint, while 

 in the female the central areas of both wings show strongly copper 

 (red-brown) and are crossed by blackish veins. The under surface 

 affords the best specific characters. The primaries are similar to C. 

 dnmetormn race perplexa in coloration but with the white markings 

 more pronounced than in the best marked specimen of typical C. dnme- 

 tornm and usually lined with a red-brown band somewhat darker than 

 the patch of the same color which extends nearly to the costa from 

 the inner margin. The secondaries are unique, the white band com- 

 posed of nearly coalescent crescent shaped spots very strongly angled 

 outward at the middle of the wing, while this band is rendered very 

 conspicuous by black inwardly, followed by a strongly disconcolorous 

 red-brown band. The fringes are quite dark, only at the lower angle 

 of the secondaries being marked by any pure white. 



Callophrys apama race homoperplexa nov. 



1900, Barnes, Ent. News, XI, 330, (as dumetorum in err.), Thecla; 



1898, Skin., Syn. Cat. N. Am. Rhop., p. 50, #303, (as dumetorum partim.), 

 Thecla; 



1912, Haskin & Grinncll, Ent. News, XXIII, 3-8, (as dumatorum partim.), 

 Thecla. 



This is the Colorado race of C. apama which has given rise to the Colorado 

 records of C. dumetorum. It is a parallel development in maculation with C. 

 dumetorum race perplexa. On the upper side the males are redder than any- 

 other species or race in the genus except C affinis from which they are easily 

 told by the copper or red-brown patch on the fore wing below, being similar 

 to C apama or C. dumetorum race perplexa. 



The females have copper or red-brown primaries, (upper side), causing 

 a striking resemblance to C. affinis which is lost when the under side is 

 examined ; the conspicuous red-brown patch on the primaries being totally lack- 

 ing in C. affinis. 



The normal specimens of this race differ from typical C. apama in the 

 great reduction of the white lines and their corresponding black and brown 

 bands, the spots being usually quite disconnected but lined with some black and 

 brown showing the relationship to C. apama and not to C. dumetorum. When 

 these spots are entirely missing, as they arc in many speciments, the resemblance 

 of tlie females to occasional reddish females of C. dumetorum race perplexa is 

 very striking. It is practically impossible to point to any final distinction be- 

 tween the converging extremes of the two forms; whereas the typical forms 



