THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST, 117 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MELITAEA 



FROM TEXAS. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, W. VA. 



Melitaea Fulvia. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. 



Upper side brown-black over basal area of each wing, somewhat 

 dusted with fulvous ; or the ground color is partly replaced by fulvous, 

 especially in the cells ; the costal margin and apex of primaries black, and 

 both hind margins are narrowly edged by black ; all the nervures and 

 branches black ; remainder of wings fulvous ; both have a submarginal 

 series of fulvous spots, preceded by a black line, those of primaries at 

 apex replaced by yellow, or obsolete ; beyond the black line a complete 

 common series of small yellow spots ; a second on the disk, larger, and on 

 secondaries elongated, sometimes very much so, and more or less con- 

 fluent with the spots of the outer row ; on primaries a large yellow spot, 

 edged with fulvous, next inside arc of cell, and two or three small yellow 

 spots below this ; in cell of secondaries a small similar spot, but some- 

 times wanting ; fringes alternately and equally black and white. 



Under side of primaries pale orange fulvous, the light spots of upper 

 side on disk and towards base showing not very distinctly ; so also the 

 spots of extra discal row below median, but above and to costa these are 

 distinct and clear yellow-buff; next apex the marginal row offers four 

 yellow-buff spots, and there is another at inner angle, the remainder being 

 fulvous, and confluent with the ground color of disk ; secondaries wholly 

 yellow-buff, the nervules broadly edged with black, and the hind margin 

 as well as costal and inner margins edged with a narrow black border ; 

 across the extra discal area a black band, within which are six or seven 

 small yellow-buff spots ; and the spots next margin, cut off by this black 

 band, are large and sub-rectangular ; in the cell a V-shaped black stripe, 

 pointing toward base, one limb of which is in line with the second branch 

 of median ; there is also an additional stripe running through the sub- 

 median interspace. Body black above, the rings of abdomen yellow at 

 junction ; beneath, the thorax yellow-buff, the abdomen yellow with more 

 or less fulvous ; legs fulvous ; palpi yellow, nearly white at sides, black in 

 front and at tip ; antennse black on upper side, ringed with yellow, ferru- 

 ginous below ; club black. 



