MELIT^. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae with a short, somewhat broad, 

 compressed terminal club; palpi divaricating, 

 hairy, second joint compressed, terminal joint 

 acicular, half the length of the preceding joint; 

 inferior wings suborbicular, somewhat check- 

 ered beneath ; anterior feet short, feeble ; tarsi 

 with double nails. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



The distinction between this genus and 

 Argynnis, is very slight, too much so, we think, 

 to justify the continuation of it, except perhaps 

 as a subgenus. We have set down the characters 

 pretty much as we find them in the authors, 

 and, although it is obvious, that they do not 

 agree very well with the species we have placed 

 under it, yet there cannot be the slightest doubt 

 of the correctness of the reference. Perhaps 

 the only striking character by which the species 

 may be separated from those of the above 



PLATE 46. 



