GRAPTA VI. 
In Grapta Interrogations there are also found three cellular spots, but dif- 
ferent in shape and position from those before mentioned; one being sub-rhom- 
boidal, depending from subcostal and running obliquely back to a point on a 
central line from base; just below this spot and a little anterior, and separated, 
starting from the central line, is another spot of nearly same shape that extends to 
median, the two forming a broken line; near base, running with the central line is 
the third spot, small, long oval. In J album, which should be classed with the 
Graptas, very much such an arrangement of the three spots occurs as in Interroga- 
tions, but the two outer spots are connected at their angles on the central line, and 
the smaller one is much enlarged. In the true Vanessans there are also three cel- 
lular spots, but more widely differing still from those of the small Graptas. In 
Antiopa the lower spot is turned obliquely to the upper, the position of this last and 
the basal spot being much as in Interrogations. In Milbertii the two outer spots 
are large and confluent forming a broad zigzag band across cell; the third spot 
does not run with the central line but crosses it obliquely from its origin on median 
near base. In Calif ornica the arrangement is much as in Milbertii. Such features 
illustrate affinities, and also show how a genus becomes broken into groups with 
a tendency to further division. 
Zephyrus was taken abundantly by Mr. Mead, during the mouth of August f 
1871, in Colorado, and was found throughout the State wherever collections were 
made, frequently in company with a small species allied to Faunus, to which I 
have given the name of Hylas , and of Vanessa Antiopa. Mr. Mead writes, “On 
the 28th, on South Park road, in the mountains about twenty miles from the Park, 
I found a large, smooth rock, exposed to the sun, on which were -several Graptas, 
Zephyrus and a species numbered three [Hylas). On this rock and in immediate 
vicinity I captured twenty Zephyrus and five of the other. I had previously, on the 
16th, found both species together in the vicinity of Berthoud’s Pass, where fifteen 
of the smaller one were taken with a few Zephyrus, on a small patch of flowers 
high up the mountain. These were the only occasions on which the small Grapta 
{Hylas) was seen.” I have also received Zephyrus from Nevada, and from Fort 
Simpson, Mackenzies Biver. 
