348 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



From many specimens taken in Colorado by Mr. Mead, in the sum- 

 mer of 1871. I have also received this species from Nevada, and 

 from Arizona by Lieut. Wheeler's Expedition of 1871. 



L. Melissa belongs to same group with Scudderii, and L. Anna 

 and Acmon. 



It may be distinguished from Scudderii, of which species the male 

 is very like Melissa above, by the presence of orange spots on prima- 

 ries below, in Melissa, and wanting in the other, and by the greater 

 curvature of the discal row of spots on primaries. The females differ 

 widely, that of Scudderii being blackish with anal ocelli, while Melissa 

 is brown with a band of orange to both wings. 



It also resembles Anna % in the color of primaries above, but is a 

 smaller species, is of a different color beneath, Anna being white. It 

 is also slightly marked, the marginal spots on primaries being faint, 

 without orange, and those of secondaries separated, the orange spots 

 lunular, faint, each edged above with a black spot more deeply convex; 

 the female of Anna is also brown, but the orange band is broken up 

 on secondaries into separate narrow crescents deeply bent and their 

 limbs prolonged nearly to margin, enclosing fuscous spots ; on prima- 

 ries a very narrow band of lunations similar to secondaries, but less ex- 

 tensive ; Anna $ beneath is a dark uniform yellow-brown, with no 

 orange on primaries and less on secondaries than the male has. 



