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A NEW SPECIES OF INCISALIA FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (RHOPALOCERA, LYCAENIDAE)*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Cyril F. Dos Passos
Cyril F. Dos Passos
Affiliation:
Mendham, New Jersey
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The opening of a new highway along the coast from Monterey to San Luis Obispo, California, made it possible to collect in a hitherto rather inaccessible region. In 1938 Dr. Michael Doudoroff of the Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, California, took near Monterey, a few badly worn specimens of an Incisalia which he believed to be new. Returning the ensuing year in June and following the highway south about thirty miles below Carmel, he stopped near Big Sur, Monterey County, and there, after rather strenuous collecting on the precipitous seaward slopes of the mountains, he succeeded in taking a small series (eleven males and two females) of these butterflies. These he very kindly sent to me for determination.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 72 , Issue 8 , August 1940 , pp. 167 - 168
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1940

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† The Gunder collection at the American Museum of Natural History contains a series of fourteen males and nine females of Incisalia fotis Strecker (1877, Lepidoptera, Rhopaloceres and Heteroceres, p. 129) from Bonanza King Mine, Providence Mountains, San Bernardino Co., California, taken in the latter part of March and the early part of April 1934.

§ An examination of Henry Edwards' type of mosii at the American Museum of Natural History reveals that it is in fact a female and not a male as described.