324 LEPIDOPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Fam, y. NYMPHALIDAE, p. 40. 



By W. H. Edwards (»i Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1861). 



MELITiEA Fab. p. 50. 

 7. M. mylitta Edwards. 



Male. Upper side fulvous ; fringe of primaries alternately black 

 and white, of secondaries white ; on hind margin of primaries a 

 broad black border, in which is a series of fulvous lunules, the 

 middle one largest and projecting, preceded by a sinuous row of 

 round fulvous spots which increase in size towards the inner mar- 

 gin ; next, a fulvous band, the upper half of which intersects the 

 preceding row at the fifth spot, making it appear bifid on the costal 

 margin ; this band is edged anteriorly by a black line which is 

 dilated on costal and on inner margin ; on the distal arc a fulvous 

 streak entirely edged with black ; base of both wings covered by 

 wavy confluent black lines, as in Tharos. 



Secondaries have a narrow black marginal border, on the ante- 

 rior edge of which is a row of fulvous lunules, the one next the 

 anal angle bisected longitudinally by a black line ; above these a 

 row of black dots, the one in the anal angle oblong ; on the costal 

 margin near the outer angle a black patch, from which an inter- 

 rupted dark line crosses the wing to near the abdominal margin. 



Under side : primaries pale fulvous, clouded with yellowish on 

 the apex and hind margin ; the black markings on the disk of 

 upper side indicated below from the transparency of the wing ; a 

 black patch near the inner angle, a faint black streak on costal 

 margin, and another on inner margin corresponding with the 

 dilated extremities of the line above ; both wings bordered by 

 lunules. 



Secondaries yellowish, clouded with brown on the disk and on 

 the hind margin ; the middle lunule white and arrow-shaped, those 

 next the angles yellowish, the others dark brown ; a row of brown 

 points corresponding with the spots above ; across the middle of 

 the wing an irregular band of yellowish white edged with ferrugi- 

 nous ; next the base several white or yellow-white spots edged with 

 ferruginous. 



Female. One third larger than the male, which it resembles ; 

 the marginal spots and transverse band on primaries are of lighter 



