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the base ; a narrow terminal black line runs along the outer margin of both 

 wings ; near the anal angle of the hind wings, this is preceded by a narrow 

 white line, above which there are two rounded black spots, the interior being 

 the largest. Hind wings with a single tail, black, tipped with white. Fringe 

 brownish ; expanse 1-05 1-12 inches. 



Underneath whitish ash colored ; a long discoidal streak, and three trans- 

 verse rows of dark ash-colored dashes, of which the two outer are close to- 

 gether, running parallel with each other, and also with the outer margin, to 

 which they are very near; the inner one is midway between the margin and 

 the discal bar ; it is slightly sinuated ; each of these rows is composed of six 

 oblong dashes, all being surrounded by whitish lines from the ground color. 



On tke secondaries there are also three transverse maculated bands, con- 

 taining the same number of spots, but differing in shape; those of the inner 

 row only are oblong, 'hose of the central being lunulate, and of the outer 

 rounded ; the two interior spots of the marginal row are jet black, glossed with 

 some greenish metallic atoms, and are surmounted by two large oraoge yellow 

 lunes ; a discoidal bar as on the primaries, and three rounded black spots en- 

 circled with whitish, situated transversely near the base, one on the costa, 

 another within the cell, and the third on the inner margin ; a similar spot, 

 sometimes only ash-colored, on the middle of the costa; a narrow terminal 

 line along the outer margin of both wings; tail as above; fringe brownish- 

 griseous. 



Body above black, with some reddish-violet hairs, underneath whitish ; an- 

 tennae brown with white annulations, club reddish-ochreous. v 



The female is larger, expanse 1-20 inches, and has the two black spots on 

 the upper side of the secondaries, surmounted by orange lunules, sometimes 

 indistinct. 



Hub. California. (Coll. Tryon Reakirt.) 



Belongs to the group of which Comyntas is the type ; it is more nearly re- 

 lated to the following new form, than to either that species, or its Californian 

 prototype Amyntula. 



18. Lyc.ena tejua, nov. sp. 



Male. Upper surface very similar to that of Monica, but with more of a bluish 

 tinge ; a narrow terminal line as in that species, but edged anteriorly with 

 white, over the whole length of the secondaries, upon which there is only one 

 black spot; tail double the length of that in Monica; fringe whitish, on the 

 secondaries cut with black at the ends of the veins. 



Underneath there are three transverse bands on each wing as in Monica, but 

 arranged differently ; the spots of the two exterior on the primaries are almost 

 confluent, and the inner one is broken into two divisions the spots in each 

 running together; the upper consisting of four, and the lower, which is nearer 

 to the base, of two ; a discoidal bar, and a small spot on the costa between this 

 and the inner transverse band. 



On the secondaries the two outer rows remain the same, having, however, 

 but one lar;>e black spot, surmounted by a very large pale orange- yellow 

 lunule ; rarely there are traces of another yellow spot interior to this; the 

 iuuer band is formed very irregularly, and presents very much the appearance 

 of a W ; discoidal bars, and basal spots as in Moirica. 



Hab. California. (Coll. Tryon Reakirt.) 



19. Lyc.en'a makicopa, nov. sp. 



Male'. Upper side brown, glossed with violet blue; a narrow terminal dark 

 line along the outer margins ; a black discal bar on the primaries, sometimes 

 wanting, and some obsolete rounded spots on the hind margin of the seconda- 

 ries. Fringe ash-colored. 



Underneath ash- brown, darkest towards the base. Primaries: a large black 

 discal bar ; a subcentral, transverse, sinuated row of seven large rounded black 

 spots all narrowly ringed with white ; following these, audparallel with the 



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