1() W. n. EDWARDS. 



Secondaries deep ferruginous from base to outer edce of the second 

 row of spots; between this and the outer row, a clear space, as in 

 Ci/beic, bri«j;ht ocliraceous-yellow ; the seven 8ub-marp;inal spots nar- 

 row segments of circles, edged above with ferruginous; the second 

 row seven, rather small, the 1st, 2d and Oth equal, sub-rotund; the 

 3d and 5th long oval; the 4th minute and 7th sub-lunate; all heavily 

 edged above with black ; the third row of three large spots, the 1st 

 and 3d sub-lunate, the 2d rounded; edged above with black; in cell 

 a round spot, and below cell an oval, both ringed with black ; all these 

 spots well silvered ; a silver patch at base of cell, and another at base 

 of sub-costal; shoulder and abdominal margin lightly silvered. 



Body above fulvous, beneath fulvous with buff and gray hairs; legs 

 fulvous; palpi fulvous, buff at sides; antennae fuscous above, fulvous 

 below; club black, tip fulvous. 



Female. — Unknown. 



From one male taken at White Mountains, Arizona, by Lieut. Hen- 

 shaw of the exploring Expedition under Lieutenant Wheeler, Au- 

 gust, 1S73. 



9Ielitsea Aeastns, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 in. Size and form of M. Palla; paler fulvous ; 

 the spots and bands closely like that species, and on a fuscous 

 ground; fringes similar also. 



Under side of primaries pale fulvous, reddish next base and across 

 the disk next the submarginal spots, yellow fulvous at extremity of 

 and below cell, and along the origin of the nervules; a fuscous patch 

 on middle of inner margin, and four fuscous, rounded spots forming a 

 bent oblique line reaching from costal edge to median nervule ; hind 

 margin edged by a narrow fulvous band, slightly wavy on inner edge ; 

 submarginal spots large, lanceolate, yellow-white, the three next inner 

 angles suffused with fulvous; the three sub-apical spots yellow-white 

 on fuscous ground; costal edge yellow-white. 



Secondaries nearly covered with large yellow white spots, in bands, 

 separated by fuscous lines; the marginal edge bordered as in prima- 

 ries; the submarginal spots lunular, the spots of second row small, 

 sub-rectangular, and each except the two outer having a minyite 

 orange spot near its posterior edge, sometimes represented by a few 

 scales only ; the spots of the 3d, or discal row, long, conforming to the 

 interspaces, almost a continuous band, the nervules that divide them 



