O ILLUSTRATIONS OF UNFIGURED LEPIDOPTERA. 



Myscelia streckeri Skinner. ' 



{Plate I, Figure 3, 9 Plate I J, <J.) 



Habitat: Lower California. Expanse: male, 2.12 inches; 

 female, 2.50 inches. 



The superior wings are of a rich black with a purplish cast, a broken line 

 of bluish purple marginal dots runs very close to the exterior margin. Tlicre 

 are three white apical spots surrounded by the same heliotrope color; running 

 from the base for about one quarter inch into the discoidal cell are two of 

 heliotrope or purple blue; starting from the base is a large blotch of the saii.e 

 color extending into the wing for nearly one half inch. The inferior wings are 

 emarginate and of the same color as the superiors only somewhat lighter, and 

 have the same marginal spots with a faint indication of a submarginal band. 

 There is a heliotrope blotch on the inferiors similar to that on the superiors ; 

 the under side of the inferiors and the apices of the superiors on the under 

 side look very much like the under side of the inferiors of Pyiatneis atalanta. 

 and I think cannot be described in words. 



The female is larger, lighter in color, and in addition to the three apical 

 spots has two on the wing near the centre of the costa, and three which are 

 submarginal. The three apical spots are not surrounded by heliotrope color 

 as in the male, and the others are plain white. The under side is the same 

 as in the male. 



Described from five specimens from Lower California through 

 the kindness of Mr. A. G. Weeks, Jr. 



I take pleasure in dedicating this species to my friend, Dr. 

 Herman Strecker. 



Colias hecate sp. no v. 



{Plate III.) 



I have received the following description, in manuscript, from 

 Dr. Herman Strecker. and have hi.s permission to publish it here. 



Habitat: Congo, West Africa. Expanse: i. 88 inches. 



Size and shape of Eitryt/u-me. 



Male. — Body, above, black with yellow hairs. Some red or pinkish hairs on 

 the head and collar. Wings, above, pale yollow orange; at costa of secondaries 

 lemon yellow, Primaries with a black marginal band, which is parallel with the 

 txterior margin from the inner margin to middle of wing, whence it widens to 



' Dr. Henry Skinner, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, Vol. X\'I, p. ST. 



