324 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



v 



FAM. Y. XYMPHALIDAE, p. 40. 



By W. H. EDWARDS (m Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861). 



MELIT2EA FAB. p. 50. 

 7. M. mylitta Edivards. 



Male. Upper side fulvous ; fringe of primaries alternately black 

 and white, of secondaries white ; on hind margin of primaries a 

 broad black border, in which is a series of fulvous lunules, the 

 middle one largest and projecting, preceded by a sinuous row of 

 round fulvous spots which increase in size towards the inner mar- 

 gin ; next, a fulvous band, the upper half of which intersects the 

 preceding row at the fifth spot, making it appear bifid on the costal 

 margin ; this band is edged anteriorly by a black line which is 

 dilated on costal and on inner margin ; on the distal arc a fulvous 

 streak entirely edged with black ; base of both wings covered by 

 wavy confluent black lines, as in Tharos. 



Secondaries have a narrow black marginal border, on the ante- 

 rior edge of which is a row of fulvous lunules, the one next the 

 anal angle bisected longitudinally by a black line ; above these a 

 row of black dots, the one in the anal angle oblong ; on the costal 

 margin near the outer angle a black patch, from which an inter- 

 rupted dark line crosses the wing to near the abdominal margin. 



Under side : primaries pale fulvous, clouded with yellowish on 

 the apex and hind margin ; the black markings on the disk of 

 upper side indicated below from the transparency of the wing ; a 

 black patch near the inner angle, a faint black streak on costal 

 margin, and another on inner margin corresponding with the 

 dilated extremities of the line above ; both wings bordered by 

 lunules. 



Secondaries yellowish, clouded with brown on the disk and on 

 the hind margin; the middle lunule white and arrow-shaped, those 

 next the angles yellowish, the others dark brown ; a row of brown 

 points corresponding with the spots above ; across the middle of 

 the wing an irregular band of yellowish white edged with ferrugi- 

 nous ; next the base several white or yellow-white spots edged with 

 ferruginous. 



Female. One third larger than the male, which it resembles ; 

 the marginal spots and transverse band on primaries are of lighter 



