two thirds white ; cellular mark repeated, interrupted a little be- 

 low middle ; secondaries marbled green, not after the pattern of 

 Cet]i7i7-a, but as in A. Hyantis, the green being dense, with clear 

 white openings, which are mostly along costal and hind margins. 

 {Cethura has the green area much broken, macular, with full half 

 the wing white, and this is yellow washed) 

 -From 2 $ from Southern California. Female not observed. 



Melitaea Perdiceas. 



Male. Expands 1.7 inch. 



Upper side a dull brown-black, spotted with buff and dull red, 

 the arrangement of the spots being as in Chalcedon and allied 

 species ; all red dull and inclining to orange, both hind margins 

 edged by a series of red spots, those next apex of primaries a little 

 the largest, the rest nearly equal ; on primaries, this is followed by 

 a row of minute spots, red and yellow, mixed , on secondaries, by 

 minute yellow spots, but the two in the median interspaces are 

 considerably larger and lunular; the third row on primaries is 

 sinuous, the spots small, rounded, yellow ; the fourth row is also 

 sinuous, red or red and yellow, except the last spot on inner 

 margin, which is yellow ; outside arc of cell a demi-row of three 

 spots, yellow edged, without red ; in cell a yellow cross bar and a 

 patch near base, and between these, and outside the bar, a few red 

 scales, a large rectangular spot below cell : on secondaries, the 

 third row is obsolete, or represented partially by a slight cluster 

 of yellow scales; the fourth, or discal row, is yellow, and on basal 

 area are four yellow spots, the two in the cell sometimes con- 

 nected by a narrow ligament on the outer side. Fringes, yellow- 

 white, black at the ends of the nervules. 



Under side, dull red over disk of primaries, a shade lighter 

 next base, the hind margins of both wings, dull orange. The 

 second row of spots on primaries repeated in yellow-white, en- 

 larged and now lunular, edged posteriorly by black. The third row 

 repeated, edged anteriorly by black, and the other yellow spots 

 are imperfectly repeated, or are indicated by a lighter shade. 

 Secondaries have a submarginal series of yellow-white lunules, 

 not much excavated, edged on all sides by black (all nervures 

 and branches being black). The next or third row is composed 

 of dull orange lunules. The discal band, broad, yellow, cut by a 

 black line near the outer edge. On basal area five large yellow 

 spots, separated by narrow spaces rather red than orange, or, at 

 least of a lighter color than the orange beyond disk ; shoulders, 

 yellow. 



Body dull black, red hairs back of head. Below, the thorax 

 covered with long black hairs, abdomen red, with yellow along 

 middle ; legs and palpi red ; antennas, brown above, reddish be- 

 low; club reddish, with a little black at tip. 



Female. Expands 1.7 inch. Same color as male, and 



