()4 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Haley 07ie in my letter to Professor Lintner, printed in Ent. Amer., i, p. 

 213. Hal cy Jie diOt%XiO\.\)t\QX\.g\.o "Ccvt Aphrodite sub-group, but to that 

 of Coronis. The larvse of Aphrodite and A/cestis, as well as of Cybele 

 and Idalia, will all be figured in my Volume 3 ; and some other Argyn- 

 nids also for that matter. 



3. Melitaea Wrightii. 



Mate. — Expands 1.3 inch. 



Upper side black, marked with fiery fulvous and ochre-yellow ; prim- 

 aries have nearly all the cell red, in the example under view, sprinkled 

 along median and at outer end with black scales ; the marginal spots from 

 near apex to upper branch of median, four in number, are large, rounded, 

 the lowest one elongated, red, and the interspaces before each are red 

 between the two rows of yellow spots ; these spots of the first, or outer 

 row, are all small, one to each interspace, and cross the wing, almost 

 parallel with hind margin, but somewhat sinuous ; the second row crosses 

 the wing beyond cell, is made up of large spots, the one of upper median 

 interspace wanting ; a large spot of same color at outer end of cell, and 

 another below. 



Secondaries black ; a marginal series of large ochre-yellow rounded 

 spots, a sub-marginal of small, and a third of elongated across the disk, 

 besides four nearer base, all these ochre yellow ; fringes black at ends of 

 nervules, pale yellow in the interspaces. 



Under side of primaries red, the yellow spots repeated and enlarged ; 

 the red marginal spots replaced by yellow, the one in upper median inter- 

 space wanting, and the ground there being red. 



Secondaries black, nearly covered with ochre-yellow spots ; the mar- 

 ginal series large, irregular in size, nearly all sub-quadrangular ; above 

 these a row of small, round, on the black ground ; the discal series much 

 longer than on upper side, and the last one is extended up inner margin 

 almost to base ; about base and in cell six spots cover nearly all the sur- 

 face. 



Body black, the rings of abdomen edged by yellow ; under side yel- 

 low ; legs red ; palpi yellow, red without and at tip ; antennae black ; 

 club black, ferruginous at tip and beneath. 



Female. — Expands 1.8 inch. 



Similar to male, the apex largely red in all the interspaces, and the 

 cell throughout ; the spots on both wings, both red and yellow, larger. 



