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lanceolate ; above these the area is black, and in this is a row of small 

 rounded fulvous spots stopping a little before the costal margin ; across 

 the disk a row of white points and a continuous white band ; beyond to 

 base fulvous on black ground, but with a white spot in cell, and a band 

 near base, and one directly at base. 



Body above black, with fulvous hairs ; beneath cinereous ; legs 

 cinereous, fulvous in front ; palpi yellow-fulvous in front, white at base ; 

 antennae black annulated with white ; club black, fulvous at tip. 



Female — Expands . 9 inch. Scarcely differs except that the fulvous is 

 paler. 



From 4 ^ , 2 ^ , taken by Mr. Z. Boll, at San Antonio, Texas. On 

 the under side this small species much resembles Mel. Gabbii in general 

 appearance ; the wings are narrow, and primaries much produced. It 

 belongs to Group II of my Catalogue. 



Melitaea dymas. 



Male — Expands .95 inch. 



Upper side brownish-black, marked and spotted with orange-fulvous ; 

 primaries have a submarginal row of rounded spots, obsolete on apical 

 half ; both wings crossed on the extra discal areas by a common band 

 of separated spots, mostly sub-quadrate, bent opposite the cell of each 

 wing and almost at a right angle on secondaries ; primaries have five spots 

 on cell, filling it, except as they are separated by black lines ; and several 

 small spots at end of and below cell ; secondaries have the basal area 

 nearly all fulvous, leaving a broad belt of black between this area and the 

 extra discal band ; in the cell a subovate black spot with fulvous stripe in 

 middle ; on the black belt in the several interspaces are a few fulvous 

 scales ; fringes of primaries fuscous, with a little white at intervals, and 

 the apex wholly white ; of secondaries fuscous only. 



Under side of primaries has the margin bordered by a confluent band 

 of crenated spots, and before this is a row of narrow dull white lunate 

 spots, or in part lanceolate, stopping at second branch of median ; these 

 stand upon a narrow black belt ; beyond to base the ground is orange 

 fulvous, with four transverse black lines in cell, a curved row of rounded 

 black spots outside cell, and an indistinct black line across the disk. 

 Secondaries have the marginal series dull white on black ground, and next 

 preceding an orange-fulvous band, and then a broad dull white band cut 



