♀.--Much like the male. Expanse, ♂, 1.50 inch; ♀, 1.75 inch.
This pretty insect ranges from southern California and Arizona to Nevada, Montana, and British America.
(23) =Melitæa wrighti=, Edwards, Plate XVII, Fig. 9, ♂; Fig. 10, ♀, _under side,_ (Wright's Checker-spot).
_Butterfly._--Much like _M. leanira_, but with more fulvous upon the upper side of the wings, and the under side yellow. The black bands on the secondaries are reduced, and the dividing-lines between the spots are confined to the nervules, which are narrowly black. This is probably only a varietal form of the preceding species. I figure the types. Expanse, ♂, 1.30 inch; ♀, 1.80 inch.
(24) =Melitæa alma=, Strecker, Plate XVII, Fig. 1, ♂ (Strecker's Checker-spot).
_Butterfly_, ♂.--The upper side of the wings is bright fulvous, with the margins and veins black. There are three rows of transverse spots paler than the ground-color. The fore wings on the under side are pale fulvous, with pale-yellow spots and a submarginal and marginal row of yellow spots separated by a narrow black line. The hind wings on this side are yellow, with the veins and margins black, and a transverse double band of black on the outer margin of the median area.
♀.--Much like the male, but larger, and redder on the upper side. Expanse, ♂, 1.25 inch; ♀, 1.50 inch.
The specimens I have came from the Death Valley. The species occurs in southern Utah and Arizona.
(25) =Melitæa thekla=, Edwards, Plate XVII, Fig. 15, ♂, _under side_; Fig. 16, ♂ (Thekla).
_Butterfly_, ♂.--The upper side of the wings is fulvous, black toward the base and on the outer margin. The primaries are adorned with a large oval pale-fulvous spot at the end of the cell, a small one on the middle of the upper side of the cell, and another small one below the cell, at the origin of the first median nervule. The discal area is defined outwardly by a very irregular fine black transverse line, beyond which is a transverse band of pale-fulvous oblong spots, an incomplete series of spots of the ground-color sharply defined upon the black outer shade, followed by a row of irregular white submarginal spots. The transverse bands of spots on the primaries are repeated upon the secondaries, where they are more regular and the spots more even in size. On the under side both wings are pale red, with the light spots of the upper side reappearing as pale-yellow sharply defined spots. The fringes are checkered black and white.