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Under side of the hind wings, pale brown on the basal half, 
beyond which is a whitish band shaded off into a pale brown, 
followed by a terminal pale band. The veins are whitish, 
and the round spots of the upper side are faintly re-produced 
with greenish pupils. 
Mr. Lyman wrote the that he ‘*‘ saw and took several spec- 
imens of this insect; beginning of August, 1882, near Port- 
land.” Jam not aware that it has been taken anywhere else 
in the State. ' 
Mr. W. H. Edwards states that the mature larva is an inch 
and a half long 
@, of a yellowish brown color, and glossy, with 
six rows of steel blue, fleshy spines. Between these spines, 
in the dorsal rows are white tuberculated spots; the head is 
furnished with two long black jointed spurs, like antennae, 
and clubbed at the end. 
The pupa much resembles that of Melitaea phaeton in 
shape; the surface clear pearly color, partly iridescent, and 
covered with metallic bronze tubercles. 
The food plants of this species are violets, mandrake 
(Podophyllum peliatum), passion-flower (Passiflora incarn- 
ata), Sedum, Desmodium and Portulacca. 
16. MeEuir“2a PHAETON, Drury. 
Mel-i-tae’-a pha’ -e-ton. 
Expanse of wings, from two to two and one-fourth inches. 
Upper surface of the wings, black with a row of red spots 
along the outer margin, and two red spots on the cell of the 
fore wing, the outer one being double. One red spot occurs 
on the cell of the hind wings. These cellular red spots are 
sometimes wanting. There are two or three rows of cream- 
colored spots within the outer row of red. Under surface of 
wings, black, and marked like the upper side, except that 
the spots are enlarged; and there are several red and also 
yellow spots on the basal half of the under side of the hind 
wings, not represented above. 
