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VOL. XX. LONDON, MAY, 1888. No. 5 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW SPECIES OF MELITAEAS 

 BELONGING TO NORTH AMERICA. 



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



i. M. Brucei. 



Male. — Expands from 1.5 to 1.7 inch. Upper side brown-black, 

 marked with spots of red and yellow in transverse bands ; there are three 

 well marked varieties, in one of which red predominates, sometimes almost 

 to the exclusion of yellow ; in another red and yellow, much as in other 

 allied species ; on the third much yellow, very little red ; in all the spots 

 are small, so that the black surface is more exposed than in many species* 



1. The red form. The spots dull ; the common marginal row wholly 

 red, the submarginal row sometimes red on primaries, sometimes red 

 partly replaced by yellow, and secondaries always red and yellow ; the 

 third row is red and yellow on primaries, red on secondaries, the fourth 

 row just the reverse of this ; at end of cell on primaries a short red and 

 yellow band, in the cell four spots, red and yellow alternately, from the 

 arc, the yellow ones very small ; on secondaries, a red stripe along upper 

 side of cell, two small yellow spots in cell ; fringes black at ends of the 

 nervules, yellow in the interspaces. 



2. The spots of the second row red and yellow on primaries, yellow 

 on secondaries, of the third yellow on primaries, red on secondaries ; of 

 the fourth red and yellow on primaries, yellow on secondaries ; the two 

 next costa sometimes red on the posterior side ; the yellow spots in cell 

 of primaries large, and a large yellow patch below cell. 



3. Nearly all spots yellow ; the marginal red ; no other red on 

 secondaries, or a mere trace of it indicating the spots of the third row, 

 which are otherwise suppressed ; the submarginal row of primaries repre- 

 sented by a few scales only, as are also the spots in cell. 



On the under side all these forms agree ; primaries dull red, almost 

 without black ; the marginal spots a deeper red, the next two rows yellow, 



