MELITilA I. 



MELIT.EA CPIALCEDOX. 



Melita-a Clialrcdon, (Q\\3l\-cq' -ilmx) BoisJuval; Doubleday and llcwitson, Gen. Diur. Lcp. pi. 23; 

 Ann. Ent. Soc. dc V\: 1852. Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1802. 



Male. Expands about two inches. 



Up2"»er side black spotted with pale oclircy yellow in transverse sinuous bands ; 

 the hind margins edged by a series of red spots, sometinaes conspicuous, but usually 

 small, rather indistinct and occasionally wholly wanting; the yellow s2)ots vary 

 much in individuals, both as to size and form ; but usually the first on sub-marr 

 ginal row of ^irimaries is minute, the second of medium size, bifid on costal mar- 

 gin, the spots of the inner branch partially red ; the third row somewhat larger 

 than the second; in the cell a coraj)ressed bar, a spot near base, and on inner mar- 

 gin a third. On secondaries the first two yellow rows are composed of small 

 spots, but those of the third are large and elongated; four yellow spots near 

 base. 



Under side of primaries bright brick red; the marginal border broad, conco- 

 lored, and j^resenting on its anterior edge a series of dee]^ yellow luuules, those next 

 inner angle frequently obsolete ; beyond this a second row of rounded spots, one or 

 two jiatches on costa and sometimes a spot in cell ; a black line on the arc and two 

 transverse lines in cell. Secondaries have also a red marginal border, a submarginal 

 series of large yellow lunules on a black ground, preceded by a row of rounded deep 

 red spots on a black ground, each edged by a delicate yellow border; across the disk 

 a band of large yellow sjiots, divided by the black lunules and cut unequally at 

 either extremity by a tran.sverse black line; next beyond this a red band, ex- 

 panded in cell and there enclosing a yellow spot in a black ring; at base of nervures 

 four yellow sjiots, and another on shoulder. 



Body above black, the segments of the abdomen edged with yellow, and to- 

 wards the extremity with red; sides of abdomen red, below yellow; thorax yellow; 

 legs and paljii red ; antennae black above, red below ; club black. 



Female. Expands 2.5 inches. 



Primaries broader, more rounded apically; sjiots larger. 



Matuke Lakva. Length 1.5 inch. Color black, finely irrorated with white ; 

 head black, bilobed, compressed, furnished with simjile black S2iines ; on body, 

 from third segment to last, seven rows of thick, many branching spines, the dorsal 



