A NEW CALIFORNIA EUPHYDRYAS (LEPID., RHOPALOCERA)

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The chain of Rocky Mountains extending south from Canada through western Montana. Wyoming, Colorado and into northern New Mexico produce a series of butterflies which are at prespnt referable under an anicia-brucei classification. Various races from this supposed parental stock are found in southwestern Colorado, Utah, the Great Basin of Nevada and elsewhere with members of the clan branching down into New Mexico. For several years I have been hoping to find representatives of this group reaching over into the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. In 1927 when on Alta Peak in Sequoia National Park, I took two males and in 1928 Mr. Walter Ireland captured four females in the same locality which I find to be closely related to the above mentioned breed.