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orange color. The secondaries have the marginal row of red 

 spots clearly defined, but the sub-marginal row of white lunulas, 

 so strongly characteristic of M. CJialcedon^ is here wholly absent, 

 or reduced to a single row of small, white sub-ovate patches, thus 

 leaving a broad, black field between the xTiargin and the median 

 band. Beneath, the upper wings are reddish over the whole sur- 

 face as in M. Chalcedon, but the lower have a much larger space 

 of yellowish v/hite toward the base, the whole of the red band 

 and blotches being more broadly edged with black. 



MelitvEA baroni. n. sp. (?) 



Allied to M. Quino BeJir. of which it may be a variety. The 

 lower side is characterised by an intense reddish color over the 

 whole surface, sometimes attended by great suffusion, while the 

 black lines usually found above and below the reddish maculate 

 bands, are either wholly wanting, or very faintly defined, and ex- 

 cept in the space surrounding the central patches of the superiors, 

 there is no black to be seen. I have examined about 40 examples 

 of this form from Mendocino Co., Cal„ all with this peculiar sys- 

 tem of coloration, and I have found these characters constant in 

 every specimen, while the typical form of M. Qnino. which M. 

 Baroni resembles so closely on the upper side, has all the mark, 

 ings of the lower, broadly and conspicuously edged with black. 

 It will be found quite an easy matter to se parate these two species- 



Melit^a rubicunda, n. van 



This is also, probably, another departure from the type oi AT. 

 Quino, and may be its mountain form. In shape it is like M. 

 Quino, and there is scarcely any appreciable difference on the 

 lower side, but above the coloration is different. In M. Quino, 

 black abounds, and overshadows both white and red. In this 

 form red is the prevailing tint, and the submarginal bands of 

 the secondaries are simply bands of red, cut by the nervules as in 

 M. Quino, consisting of rows of spots. There is also a greater 

 proportion of white about the base of the secondaries. My speci- 

 mens, (18 in number) all agree in these characters. They are all 

 from the Sierra Nevada, at an elevation of from 2500 feet to 7000 

 feet, while the typical M Quino is found nearer the sea level. 

 M. rubicunda approaches somewhat closely to M. nubi.^cna, Beh'r. 

 It is doubtless so named in many collections, but it is not so en- 

 tirely suffused with red, as the latter species, while the wings are 

 broader, with the apices more rounded. 



Melit/EA anicia. Doubl. 



This species may be known by its narrow wings, with very 

 pointed apices, as well as by the large proportion of white on the 

 upper surface, and the almost utter obliteration of the red sub- 

 marginal maculate band of secondaries. A strongly marked va- 

 riety is occasionally found which I designate as 



Melit.'EA wheeleri. n. var. 



