162 THE BUTTERFLIES OF THE WEST COAST 



Expanse, 1.20 to 1.50: Orange ground, paler in the male, with 

 indefinite blackish markings after the pattern of Wrighti, and 

 with whitish spots ; veins bordered blackish, heavily so in the 

 female. Beneath, fore wing is paler orange, spots light, obsolete ; 

 hind wing, white ground with scattering scales of brown ; black 

 band near base, as in Wrighti, enclosing a sub-quadrangular 

 white spot ; a narrow, blackish, mesial band enclosing six sub- 

 quadrangular white spots. 



This seems to be the southern, sub-tropical member of this 

 group, and is allied to Alma, being redder, spots more obsolescent, 

 white, not yellow, basal area not yellow, and all black markings 

 indefinite. 



The pair of examples here figured are uniques ; they were taken 

 while I was hunting for Wrighti, and in company with that 

 species. 



190. Melitasa Alma. 



Xo figure. 

 Only one male and one female known, one of them from Nor- 

 thern Arizona and the other from Southern Utah. The male is 

 figured in Strecker's Rho.-Het., Plate XV, 1876. According to 

 those figures Alma is patterned similar to Cerrita ; the upper side 

 is orange, with lighter, yellow spots, sharp edged black markings, 

 base black and bright yellow ; on underside the fore wing is col- 

 ored same as the upper side, with heavy yellow and black mark- 

 ings about same as on upper side, and very much heavier than on 

 Cerrita ; the hind wing is light-yellow, not white, like Cerrita ; the 

 base is clear yellow, without the sub-basal band of black, or any 

 spots or markings whatever similar to the black on Cerrita. 



191. Melitasa Nympha. 

 Plate XX; Figure 191. 



Fig. 191, Male, Southern Arizona; H. K. Morrison, 1880? 

 Nympha is properly a Mexican species, coming into American 

 territory only along the Southern Arizona border. 



192. Melitsa Belli. 



Plate XX; Figure 192. 



Fig. 192, JMale, Southern Arizona, 1880? H. K. Morrison. 



This little Melitasa flies in Arizona and Texas. I have never 



seen it in flight ; this example was sent to me by that reliable col- 



