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previous stage, slightly more spiculate and very sharply pointed ; spines i 

 and iv longest, about .7 mm. long, iii short; on abdominal segments a 

 minute black tubercle occupies the place of v (/. ,?., well ventrad of iv), 

 but is not present on thoracic segments ; several other minute spines are 

 situated in a row at base of prolegs ; on the thoracic segments and those 

 abdominal ones without prolegs, a large spine (vi?) occupies a similar 

 l)osition, being accompanied on ist and 2nd abdominal segments by a 

 smaller spine slightly anterior and ventrad to it. Spines of anal plate 

 much reduced, only one pair, situated laterally, being black. Prolegs as 

 before, and claspers entirely without black plate. Length, 38-50 mm., 

 presumably according to the future sex. 



Stage V. — Head reddish-brown, shiny, slightly furrowed and sparsely 

 covered with very minute seta; ; width, 4.5 mm. Body dark brick-red, 

 very strongly granulate, with broken yellow subdorsal and spiracular stripes, 

 the latter being chiefly confined to a yellow patch about spiracle. Tuber- 

 cles of prothorax blunt, rounded ; mesothoracic spine slightly recurved, 

 blunt at apex, spiculation much reduced ; length, 5.5 mm., all other spines 

 sharply pointed and directed backwards, being shiny black and practically 

 smooth, the spiculations of previous stages being obsolete. Length of 

 spine i, I 5 mm. Tubercle ii is again visible as small black spine ; other 

 tubercles as before. Numerous small black secondary spines are now 

 present on anterior margin of each segment, forming a group anterior to 

 iv, another below this tubercle and a band across base of prolegs, or in 

 the case of the thoracic and first two abdominal segments, a group around 

 the extra spine peculiar to these segments. Spiracle black ; legs pale red, 

 prolegs and anal clasper and plate as in previous stages. Length, 

 50-65 mm. 



MELIT^A ALMA STRECKER, AND ITS SYNONYMY. 



BY KARL R. COOLIDGE, PASADENA, CALIF. 



Strecker, in his Rhopalocera Heterocera, etc., p. 135, 1878, described 

 Melitcea alma from two specimens, one from Arizona and the other from 

 Southern Utah. On PI. XV a (^ is figured above and below. There 

 appears to be very little in our literature concerning alma. Holland, 

 Butt. Bk., says : "The specimens I have came from Death Valley." • He 

 figures a male, fig. i, on PI. XVH, which is certainly a puny individual, if 

 it is alma at all. Mr. W. G. Wright, Butt. West Coast, p. 162, 1905, says 



