.42 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 



LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY WH.LIAM BARNES, iM. D., DECATUR, ILLINOIS. 



Melitcea Cha/cedon, dih. fusimacn/a. Seirarctia Ciio, vax. Jessica, n. var. 

 Melitcea Chalcedon, ab. Maria?ia. Orgyia Oslai'i, n. sp. 



Melitcea Senrabii, n. sp. Eulimacodes Telligii, n. sp. 



TJiecla Mirabelle, n. sp. Co lor ad i a Doris, n. sp. 



Pyrgus Polingii, n. sp. Tolype Glemvoodii, n. sp. 



Psetidalypia Geronivio, n. sp. Gloveria Arizonensis, Pack., male. 



Melitcea Chalcedon, Sih. fusimacula. — Variations of Chalcedon are 

 very common, but the ones I now describe are so striking that they are 

 certainly worthy of a varietal name, especially as they do not seem to be 

 so very uncommon. In the first of these, to which I have given the name 

 Ftisitfiacula, there is a tendency to obliteration of the spots on discs of 

 both wings, and to a fusion of the three outer rows of spots in a 

 horizontal direction. The ground colour of the upper surface is of the 

 same rich black as Chalcedon. There is a complete absence of the spots 

 in the cells of both fore and hind wings in males, and there are but faint 

 traces of them in the females. On the fore wings the fusion takes place 

 as follows : The two outer rows unite to form a yellow band, which is 

 joined at about its middle by a yellow derai-band from the costa, which is 

 composed of the fusion of the two inner rows. The infra-cellular spot on 

 the fore wings is either absent or fused with the large spot outside of it, 

 thus forming a large quadrangular patch on the middle of the hind mar- 

 gin. On the hind wings there is more or less complete fusion of the outer 

 three rows of spots, resulting in a broad yellow band across the wing 

 composed of large quadrangular spots three-eighths of an inch long lying 

 between the nervules. There are faint traces of a marginal row of red 

 spots. On the under side the fusion is even more marked. There is 

 almost complete obliteration of the mesial row of red spots on the hind 

 wings. The red markings on the inner third of the hind wings are about 

 the same as in Chalcedon, but the yellow spots have almost or quite dis- 

 ap[)eared, being replaced by black. Types : three males and two females 

 from California. 



Melitcea Chalcedon, ab. Mariana. — Upper surface black on both 

 wings, the only markings being, on the fore wings the marginal row of 

 red spots, and in one specimen two faint red spots in cell, and on the hind 

 wings a series of minute yellow spots, representing the mesial row. All 



