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resembled Mr. Fitch's volupia, under the same name, and thereafter en- 

 tirely ignoring Mr. Fitch's species in his list can scarcely be called honest. 

 R. miniana. Grt., Papilio 1, .75; id. 2, PL I, figs. 1 and 2-Thorax 

 lighter vellow or orange; this color spreads over base of fore wings; fore 

 wings pale smooth clay color, crossed by two broad vague mesial white 

 bands; subterminal line inaugurated by a brilliant wine-red, outwardly ob- 

 lique, linear scale patch, partly resolved into about three spots; a spot on inter- 

 nal margin ; hind wings brilliant wine red; the internal magin yellowish; indi- 

 cations of yellow mesial line, and the fringes are also of this color; beneath the 

 disc of primaries is of the same wine red, and the hind wings are crossed by lines 

 and shades of the same color. Expanse 24 millim. 

 Habitat.— Northern New Mexico (Snow. ). 



Welicliptria Hoy i, Grt., Bui. Bkln. Ent. Soc. 3, 30.-Body blackish, hairy ; 

 the villosity hasa purple tinge and is paler beneath; fore wings triangulate, 

 blackish, overlaid by a sprinkling of pale scales, especially at base and terminally ; 

 a rather narrow angulate yellowish white band crosses the wing at the place of 

 the posterior line; hind wings yellowish white, with a rather wide determinate 

 black border extending also along internal margin: no disca lunule , under sur- 

 face paler, more whitish ; primaries diffusely whitish about the transverse band, 

 reflected from the upper surface ; on secondaries a black costal spot and the whit- 

 ish color intrudes on the terminal band at anal angle. Expanse 22 m.ll.m. 

 Habitat. — Wisconsin. 



Melieliptria vacciniae, Hy. Edw., Proe. Cal. Ac. Nat. Sci. May 1875.- 

 "Head and thorax brown, with a few brown scales; abdomen blackish brown, 

 with the base of segments whitish; primaries light brown, with a golden tinge ; 

 base of wing darker than the other portion ; t. a. only moderately curved, very 

 slightly dentate anteriorly as it reaches the internal margin ; median shade whit- 

 ish brown as it reaches the costa; orbicular almost obsolete; reniform large, dis- 

 tinct- t p whitish, bent considerably outwards near the costa, nearly straight 

 toward the internal margin; s. t. sharply toothed in the middle ; resting on this 

 line are four or five black dashes ; fringes shining golden brown, with dark patches ; 

 secondaries black, with median white fascia, broadest behind the m.ddle, but not 

 reaching to the anal margin; near the outer margin is a small white streak sug- 

 gesting a submarginal band ; fringes white ; beneath primaries black, reddish near 

 costa, with broad median band, a kidney-shaped spot near apex and anteriorly 

 notched marginal band, all cream white; secondaries black, with a large space 

 near the costa. reddish white and a nearly oblong spot in centre of wing cream 

 white; behind this is also a small white spot; fringes of both wings as m the 

 upper side. Expanse of wings 0.75." 



Habitat.— California (Sierra Nevada). 



Pvrrhia stilla, Grt., N. A. Ent. 188(».-Bright orange red, allied to angu- 



lata rather than exprimen* ; base of primaries bright smooth orange without mark- 

 ings • median shade triangular, contrasting deep brown forming a mesial band 

 acutely angulated, even diffuse exteriorly: stigmata obsolete; exterior line as in 

 ;:;;! obsolete on the inside; subterminal subobsolete : fringes w,ha b ^ 

 reddish tint; hind wings light yellow with blackish lunule blackish at base with 

 abroad vague blackish band tinged with reddish outwardly: beneath yellow; 



