. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. We have thus managed to find one of the lost California Satyrids and in finding it have determined that it is nothing more than an extreme variation of a previously recorded species. Our plate figures thirteen examples of this interesting species. They are arranged to illustrate the range of variation in both sexes. Figure 1 is the light form which Wright has called Stephens!. We compared it with the types and find that it agrees in every particu- lar except for the slight extension of the gra
. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science; Natural history; Natural history. We have thus managed to find one of the lost California Satyrids and in finding it have determined that it is nothing more than an extreme variation of a previously recorded species. Our plate figures thirteen examples of this interesting species. They are arranged to illustrate the range of variation in both sexes. Figure 1 is the light form which Wright has called Stephens!. We compared it with the types and find that it agrees in every particu- lar except for the slight extension of the gray ground color toward the anal angle. Wright's specimens are a shade lighter than the normal freshly emerged forms due to the amount of fading they had undergone before his plates were made. (They were in his cabinet for eleven years, exposed to the light, before being figured.) This example was taken in copulation with a dark male. Figure 6 is an extremely dark female. The intermediate exam- ples are chosen from a long series which represents every gradation from the light, yellow bordered form to the dark variety with heavy ocelli. Figures 7 to 9 represent the under surfaces of three females, chosen to demonstrate the light, intermediate and dark forms. Figures 10 to 12 show the upper surfaces of three males, and Figure 13 represents the under surface of the same sex. In order to determine more specifically the exact type locality of C. Stephensi I again wrote Mr. Frank Stephens, and received the followingr reply: "I netted half a dozen Satyrus stephensi on the 10th of August, 1894, in the valley some miles south of the southernmost Alkali Lake, in Modoc Co. We have been packing preparatory to moving and my notes are not avail- able so I can't give the exact locality, but as I remember it the place was well covered with vegetation. So far as I know no other specimens have been taken since until you found them. Those I took were worn, and prob- ably it was near the end of
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