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with black; outside this, the marginal area is yellow, and 

 similarly marked to the corresponding portion of the fore- 

 wings. 



EXOTIC GENERA ALLIED TO MELH7EA. 



Nearctk and Neotropical Regions. 



The genus Melitcea is well represented in most parts of 

 North America ; but in Tropical America, as before stated, it is 

 replaced by several closely-allied genera, of which the most 

 important are Phyciodes, Hiibner, and Eresia, Doubleday. 

 Phyciodes, indeed, extends over the greater part of North 

 America as well. These Butterflies much resem' le the small 

 species of Melitcea, measuring from an inch to an inch and a 

 half across the wings, which are generally brown, with red, 

 yellow, tawny, and white spots and markings. The fore-wings 

 are broad, and not much longer than the hind-wings, which are 

 rounded, slightly denticulated, and frequently covered like the 

 fore-wings. The species inhabit open or bush-covered land. 



Eresia includes species somewhat similarly coloured, but 

 larger, measuring from an inch and a half or two inches 

 across the wings. They are forest insects, with longer and 

 narrower fore-wings than Phyciodes ; and many of the species 

 greatly resemble small species of Heliconius, or some of the 

 black and tawny species of the Sub-family Ithomiince, from 

 which, however, they may be at once distinguished by their 

 open hind wing-cells. 



Anemeca ehrenbergii (Hiibner) is a curious Mexican species, 

 measuring about two inches across the wings, which are black, 

 with long whitish radiating lines on the outer half. The hind- 

 wings are very pale yellowish-white beneath,, with broad black 

 nervures. The wings are rather long, the fore-wings being 

 rather longer than the hind wings, and the hind-margins are 

 rounded. 



