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Secondaries />/;//(•, varying in intensity, with a narrowly white bordered 

 black outer margin, widest at the apex, where it encloses a pink costal 

 spot, having also beyond the middle of the outer margin, an enlarge- 

 ment towards the middle of the wing. There are also traces of two 

 similar spots on the costa. Fringes white. 



Beneath all the wings are deep red, with the costa of the primaries 

 yellowish. The white bands of the primaries do not appear, but the 

 black bands are more prominent, as the spots are more or less confluent^ 

 and appear as broken black bands. The markings of the secondaries 

 are reproduced except that the two costal spots are deep black and very 

 conspicuous. 



Expatise of wings, 1.55 inches. Length of body, 0.65 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic States, from Massachusetts to Texas. (Coll. gen- 

 erally.) 



The above description is drawn from a full colored specimen from 

 Massachusetts, presented to me by F. Sanborn. I have before me four 

 specimens from the northern Atlantic States and five from Texas. The 

 only difference of note, is the varying intensity of the yellow of the pri- 

 maries, those specimens which are palest having the black spots reduced 

 in size, with some few of them occasionally obsolete, but whatever the 

 degree of obsolesence, the color of the wings is 'sXxW yellow, and if all the 

 markings were obliterated, would be ivhite. A. S. Packard, jun. , 

 (Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., vol. 3, p. 106,) after the examination of fifty 

 specimens from Maryland, notes no other diff"erences, except that in 

 one specimen the black border of the secondaries sent large broad 

 expansions towards the middle of the wing. (See also U. ornatrix and 

 U. speciosa.) 



2.-TITETHEISA SPECIOSA. (PI. 2, fig. 16.) 



Deiopeia speciosa, Walker, C. B. M. Lep. pi. 8, p. 568. (1854.) 

 Deiopeia speciosa, Clem., Syn. Lep. N. Am. app. p. 314. (1862.) 



6 . ? . — The foregoing description of U. bella, will do for the present 

 species, except that where U. bella is yellow, U. speciosa is red, on the 

 upper surface of the primaries, and on the thoracic parts. In one spe- 

 cimen before me, the abbreviated fifth band unites with the fourth, 

 instead of the sixth transverse band. 



Expafise ofrviftgs, 1.60 inches. Length of body, 0.65 inch. 



Habitat. — Atlantic States and West Indies. 



