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metathorax very finely punctured except around the posterior edge and 

 sides, where the punctures are very few and scattered ; sides of metathorax 

 finely confluent ly punctured, base distinctly enclosed ; thorax on sides 

 and beneath, scutellum, behind tubercles, with medium ochraceous hairs ; 

 tegular deep blue-green, smooth in centre ; wings hyaline, nervures and 

 stigma testaceous; legs blue-green, tarsi yellowish testaceous, darker at 

 tips ; anterior and middle legs fringed with pale pubescence, becoming 

 somewhat rufous near the tips of the tarsi  posterior legs wanting ; 

 abdomen dorsally, purple, finely closely punctured, entirely covered with 

 short pale hairs, four apical segments more densely pubescent j fourth 

 ventral segment as in A. cleomis, but the curvatures are not nearly so 

 deep ; first, second and third ventral segments densely, closely punctured, 

 violet blue, posterior margin of second and third with a triangular space 

 in the centre, extended narrowly along the sides, smooth and testaceous, 

 remaining segments black, venter with very short hair. Length, n mm. 



$ . — Resembles the male closely ; pubescence dense on sides of face, 

 cheeks, beneath, and clypeus, behind wings, on scutellum and pleura, 

 quite dense ; thorax closely, finely, partly confluently punctured; pleura 

 more coarsely so ; metathorax with a faint trace of triangle,, truncation 

 shining, punctured ; tegulre green with an impunctate wide outer margin ; 

 legs green, femora darker beneath, tarsi and tibias piceous, inclined to 

 ferruginous at tips ; anteriir and posterior legs and middle tarsi with 

 dense pale pubescence ; hind spur of hind tibiae pectinate w\\hfive pointed 

 spines ; venter piceous, with a decided bluish tinge, margins of segments 

 testaceous, fringed with hair. Length, 10 mm. 



Male taken at Denver, Colorado, by Mr. Horace G. Smith, and is in 

 Mr. Ashmead's collection. Through the kindness of Mr. Ashmead, I 

 have had the type specimen to examine. The female was taken at Ft. 

 Lupton, Colo., (R. Haynes) and is now first described. 



I wish to express my thanks to Prof. Cockerell and Mr. Wm. H. 

 Ashmead for the many favours I have received from them during the 

 preparation of this article. 



On October 30th, 1900, at 8.25 a. m., I watched the emergence of 

 a male Vanessa antiopa from its chrysalis. The temperature was 51 , 

 with a stiff breeze blowing. The chrysalis was under the ledge of a fence 

 and had been exposed to several degrees of frost. Several of the same 

 species emerged during the previous week. A. E. Norris, Montreal. 



