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Taylor's Checker-spot
Butterfly.--This insect resembles M. baroni, but is smaller, the red spots on the wings are larger and more conspicuous, and the light bands of pale spots more regular and paler in color, in many specimens being quite white. It looks at first sight like a diminutive edition of Baron's Checker-spot, and possibly is only a northern race of this species. Expanse, male, 1.25-1.50 inch; female, 1.50-1.75 inch.
Early Stages.--Mr.W. H. Danby of Victoria, B. C., informs us in the "Canadian Entomologist," vol. xxi, p. 121, that the food-plant of this species is the ribwort-plantain (Plantago lanceolata, Linn.).
It is found on Vancouver's Island.