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same spots as above, but faintly colored ; the marginal spots next apex, to 

 the number of five or six, are silvered and two or three silver spots pre- 

 cede them on the oosta. Secondaries have the belt between the two outer 

 rows of silver spots pale buff and immaculate ; the basal part a little mot- 

 tled with pale red-brown, sometimes greenish ; the silver spots are twenty- 

 one in number, viz : a sub-marginal row of seven ; a second row of seven, 

 long oval, each edged with black ; a third row of four and three spots next 

 the base ; costa at base and abdominal margin lightly silvered. 



Female. Expands 2 J inches; like the male except that the marginal 

 lines and lunules are heavier and are connected so as to present one broad 

 band. 



Oregon ; California. 



Meltt^a Chalcedon Doubleday: female figured. 



Male. Expands 2 to 2] inches. Upper side black; primaries have 

 four rows of spots parallel to the hind margin ; the marginal small, round- 

 ed, deep red; the second row small, yellow; the third yellow and bifid on 

 costal margin, the inner branch being red; the fourth yellow more or less 

 replaced by red ; within the cell, a broad yellow bar ; a triangular spot of 

 same color next base, and a sub-median bar ; sometimes between the first 

 two are red streaks; costal edge brick-red. 



Secondaries have a marginal row of deep red spots, sometimes obsolete, 

 preceeded by three rows of yellow ; the spots of the middle one smallest, 

 of the last elongate ; towards the base four large yellow spots. 



Under side: primaries brick-red; a submarginal row of yellow lunules, 

 obsolete nest inner angle ; a second row of rounded yellow spots ; a small 

 spot on costa, and a bar edged before with black, outside the arc ; in the 

 cell, three wavy, transverse, black lines. 



Secondaries covered with bands of red, a shade deeper than on primaries, 

 and of yellow ; the hind margin I'ed ; a sub-marginal row of yellow lunu- 

 les ; a second of rounded red spots, each more or less ringed with yellow ; 

 a third of large yellow spots, cut unequally towards the costa by a Ijlack 

 line ; next this, a red band ; and above, on a red ground, five yellow spots, 

 besides one at the base on costa ; abdominal margin yellow. 



Body black above, beneath yellow ; a dorsal and two lateral rows of yel- 

 low points ; the segments of the abdomen fi'inged with red ; legs, palpi 

 ami antennae red. 



Female. Expands 20 inches; primaries broader than in male and much 

 more rounded on hind margin; on the upper side, except at the mai'gin, 



