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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF DIURNAL LEPI- 

 DOPTERA TAKEN BY MR. H. K. MORRISON, AT 

 FORT GRANT AND IN GRAHAM MOUNTAINS, 

 ARIZONA, 1882. 



By Wm. H. Edwards. 



MelittEA Perse. 



Male. — Expands I.I inch. Shape of M. Dj'mas,Edw . Upper 

 side yellow-fulvous with black lines ; both hind margins broadly- 

 bordered black, on which are sub-marginal fulvous spots, small 

 and irregular in shape on primaries, sub-crescent on secondaries ; 

 anterior to these a common series of sub-quadrate spots, and 

 another similar, elongated, the two separated by a black line on 

 primaries and partially on secondaries ; thence to bases of wings 

 fulvous with black reticulations ; fringes black, white at tips of 

 the nervules. 



Under side of primaries fulvous, the black markings repeated 

 indistinctly ; costal edge white, along hind margin a narrow buff 

 belt, and next a series of yellow-white crescent spots. Seconda- 

 ries have a similar edging to margin, and a series of large yellow- 

 white crescents, next anterior to which is a series of spots, some- 

 times small and rounded, orange, on a whitish ground, sometimes 

 wholly orange ; above these a narrow buff belt, a black line and 

 a white band, bisected with black next costal margin ; thence to 

 base orange, with a white spot edged black in cell, a cross band 

 of four white spots, an orange band, a white band on shoulder, 

 the tip of the shoulder buff. 



Body above fuscous, the abdomen on sides fulvous, beneath 

 both abdomen and thorax yellow-white ; legs fulvous, the femora 

 white on under side ; palpi fulvous, white at base ; antennae black 

 annulated white ; club black, ferruginous at tip, white beneath. 



Female. — Expands 1.3 inch. Similar to the male, the fulvous 

 more diffused. Under side as in the male. 



From 3 <5 3 ? . This species belongs to the same sub-group 

 with M. Dynias, Edw., the fore wings being elongated and nar- 

 now. Dynias was described from San Antonio, Texas. 



Lemonias Ares. 



Male. — Expands 1.3 inch. Upper side of primaries brown, 

 with a very faint reddish tinge beyond disk to margins ; of 

 secondaries fulvous over costal half of the wing, the remainder, 

 to inner margin, brown; primaries have an obsolescent mar- 

 ginal and extra-discal row of dark points ; a demi-row of black 

 spots from costa to second branch of median, at end of cell ; a 

 row of similar spots a little nearer base quite across the wing, 

 and three indistinct transverse rows from middle of cell to base. 

 Secondaries have a sub-marginal row of black points, an extra- 

 discal row of small spots, a demi-row on disk, and others nearer 

 base ; fringes of primaries brown, a little white in the median 



