206 WM. II. EDWARDS. 



with grey, starting from costa near apex terminates a little within the 

 middle of hind margin ; two similar abbreviated stripes precede this 

 on costa ; the color of patches on secondaries more intense. 



Taken at Mendocino, Cal., by R. H. Stretch, Esq.. and in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Henry Edwards. 



Phyciodes Orseis, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.6 inch. Upper side fuscous spotted with fulvous 

 and rusty white; primaries have a marginal series of lunules, obsolete 

 except the middle one ; a submarginal row of points, followed by a 

 macular rusty white band ; on are a fulvous patch, a broad bar in 

 cell ; three or four indistinct fulvous patches in cell near base and a 

 whitish spot below. Secondaries have a complete marginal series of 

 whitish lunules each resting on a fiint black spot ; a submarginal row 

 of fulvous spots nearly replaced by black, showing only fulvous lunules 

 on inner edges ; median band fulvous ; a fulvous curved bar on arc 

 and spot in cell ; fringes fuscous and white. 



Under side pale ochraceous, darkest at base of primaries ; at inner 

 angle a blackish streak and a small brown patch on middle of inner 

 margin ; hind margins of both wings edged by a creuated fulvous line, 

 duplex on middle of primaries, and on whole of secondaries, and in 

 upper median interspace of these last enclosing a large pale lunule ; 

 primaries mottled with shades of fulvous; secondaries from base to 

 middle of disk reticulated with fulvous lines, limited without by a 

 wavy line; beyond this a cloudy stripe and a row of brown points. 



Body above fuscous, below pale ochraceous ; legs ochraceous ; palpi 

 same, fuscous above and with fuscous hairs in front; antennae fuscous; 

 club black tipped with fulvous. 



Female. — Expands 1.9 inch. Upper side similar to male; under 

 side of primaries fulvous mottled apically and on inner margin with 

 yellowish ; the marginal lines complete, duplex, enclosing yellow 

 lunules; on secondaries the pale spot on margin is white or silvery; 

 these wings yellowish clouded with brown, and the reticulated lines 

 at base brown. 



From Mt. St. Helena, Napa Co. California, taken by Mr. Henry 

 f]dwards. The largest of the Pacific species. 



Phyciodes Canace, n. sp. 



31ale. — Expands 1.3 inch. Upper side fuscous marked and spotted 

 with fulvous, as in Montana, Behr; the third band from hind margin 

 of primaries pale colored, rather yellowish ; under side of primaries 



