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yellow replaces the red and the spots are more conspicuous ; the color of 

 the under side rather more vivid than in the male. 

 Rocky Mountains; California. 



Melit^a Anicia Doubleday. 

 Expands about 2 inches. 



Male. Upper side black, nearly covered by brick-red and pale yellow 

 spots, most of which are disposed in transverse rows ; primaries have the 

 marginal row of red lunules; the second of smaller lunules, pale red tin- 

 ged with yellow; the third of rounded yellow spots; the fourth of large 

 red angular spots and bifid on the costa, the inner branch being yellow ; a 

 red spot on the arc within, followed by a yellow bar and two red spots, 

 the one next the base tinged with yellow ; on inner margin a yellow bar 

 precedes the bifid row and at the base are two or three small red spots ; 

 costal edge red. 



Secondaries have the first and second rows as in primaries; the third, 

 of large, lunular, red spots; and the fourth, of yellow, elongate spots more 

 or less replaced by red ; sometimes the third and fourth rows are united 

 on costal margin ; a red bar borders the are within, and in the cell are 

 fiwo yellow spots, sometimes a red spot between them, and a third yellow 

 spot on abdominal margin ; fringe of both wings alternate white and black. 



Under side : primaries red, a shade paler than above; hind margin bor- 

 dered by red lunules, preceded by small yellow lunules and a row of round- 

 ed yellow spots ; upon the sub-costal nei'vure rest two abbreviated yellow 

 bars, one without, and the other within the cell, each edged on either side 

 by a wavy black line ; another such line nearer the base, in the cell, and 

 one below on inner margin. 



Secondaries covered with alternate bands of red and yellow ; the hind 

 margin red ; a sub-marginal row of yellow lunules ; a second of red spots 

 edged with yellow ; a third of angular yellow spots divided unequally by 

 a black line ; preceding this, a red band, and beyond to the base, upon a 

 red ground, four large yellow spots and another at the base on the costa. 



Body black above, the segments of the abdomen fringed with red ; be- 

 neath yellow ; legs and palpi red ; antennae and club dull red. 



Female: a little larger than male ; color less vivid; primaries broader 

 with hind margin more rounded as in Chalcedon. 

 Kansas ; Rocky Mountains ; California. 



The under side of Anicia is very like Chalcedon. It is distinct from 

 Editha^ of Boisduval, with which it has been confounded. 



