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Secondaries broadly black at base, and on the margins, en- 

 closing a large subovate white patch ; fringes brown, edged out- 

 wardly with white. 



Under side : Primaries brownish black, as are the margins 

 enclosing large cream white space ; reniform and sub-reniform 

 black. Secondaries same as the upper side; tibiae black, with 

 brownish hairs ; tarsi, sordid white. Exp. wings, 1.30 inch. 



3 <5 2 (5. Southern Utah. 



Type. Coll. B. Neumoegen. 



Melicleptria elaborata, n. sp. 



Size of M. Villosa, Grote. Primaries with the base black, 

 flecked with crimson and yellow scales, the costal edge crimson, 

 with a linear white spot resting on the sub-costal nervure ; med- 

 ian band cream white, slightly sinuate posteriorly, and broken in 

 front by a portion of the basal space, which here covers the cen- 

 tral portion of the cell ; posterior third of the wing, bright rosy 

 crimson, enclosing a clouded streak of black and yellow scales ; 

 fringe yellowish white, except at the apex, where it is a brownish 

 black. Secondaries black, with rather wide median band of cream 

 white, broken in front by a small triangular black patch ; fringe 

 cream white. Under side: Primaries rosy at base and apex; a 

 cream white band divided by a black spot; internal half of the 

 posterior portion, smoky black. Secondaries cream white, black- 

 ish along the anal margin, with the posterior half rosy, narrowly 

 edged with black. Thorax covered with long golden hair ; the 

 tegulse shading into purplish rose color ; abdomen densely clothed 

 with long yellow hairs, as are also the tibae and tarsi. Exp. 

 wings, 0.75 inch. 



I $ Colorado. H. K. Morrison. 



Type. Coll. Hy. Edwards. 



Probably the most beautiful of the genus, rivalling the ex- 

 quisite Adonisea Pulchripennis, Grote. 



Melicleptria Perminuta, n. sp. 



Allied to M. Diminutiva, Grote, but much smaller and dif- 

 fering by the following characters. The primaries are dark 

 brown, dotted with white scales, the macular band being com- 

 posed of three spots, the largest being oblong, about the middle 

 of the wing, and nearly touching the outer margin. Above this, 

 in the anterior extremity of the cell, is a small roundish spot and 

 a linear one in the median space, nearer to the t. p. line. In M. 

 Diminutiva these spots assume the form of a band, and the 

 ground color of the wing is redder, and wants the irrorated ap- 

 pearance of the present species. Secondaries black, with discal 

 spot, and another near the anal margin, pure white. Underside 

 black, primaries with wide median band and discal spot white. 



