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fulvous spot on costa, two fulvous spots in cell and between them a 

 white spot, and another fulvous spot below cell; beyond this, reaching 

 nearly to margin is a broad white space, cut by the black nervures; 

 from end of cell to near the abdominal margin extends a wavy black 

 line which cuts off a small portion of the white area; this white area is 

 divided by an irregular black band extending from anal angle to two- 

 thirds the distance to costal margin, followed by five pale fulvous spots; 

 beyond the white area black with a marginal row of fulvous lunules. 



Melitaea Dymas, Edw. i <? , 19. This is Mr. Strecker's Larunda. 



Melitaea Chara, Edw. i $ . 



Melitaea Bollii, Edw. Three examples. One of these, which was 

 identified for us by Mr. W. H. Edwards as M. T/iekla, is much paler 

 than t}'pical Bollii, though more closely related to the latter in mark- 

 ings. A comparison of Mr. Edwards' types, kindly loaned us, shows 

 these two species to be very distinct in general appearance, though the 

 difference appears to be caused entirely by the relative intensity of the 

 markings. A large series will probably prove them to be one species. 



Melitaea Definita, n. sp. — (E. M. Aaron.) Moderately common. 

 This species belongs to the Bollii -^^VlA Minuta Group (Group III, Ed- 

 wards' Catalogue, 1885), but may be readily distinguished from its con- 

 geners by the two pairs of submarginal brick-colored spots on the 

 secondaries beneath. In its markings above, and in size, it is allied to 

 Bollii; beneath it resembles Dynias. 



Expands from 1.2 to 1.5 inches. 



The sexes do not differ in color or pattern. Abo\e, black spotted 

 and banded with deep brick-red. Primaries with two to four spots and 

 a basal dash in the cell, occasionally the latter is nearly obsolete; be- 

 neath the cell one or two spots, the inner frequently prolonged into 

 another basal dash; across outer half of wing a double row of oblong 

 spots, the third and fourth, seventh and eighth confluent; a submarginal 

 row of whitish points of which the submedian are the largest, the others 

 sometimes nearly obsolete. Secondaries with the same pattern, the 

 basal area varies from only t\vo small spots in the cell to four therein 

 with a broad dash above and two below; the double row across outer 

 half of wing more clearly separated, the inner occasionally, on both 

 wings, of a lighter color; the submarginal row of white points re- 

 peated, and generally more distinct. Fringes alternately white and 

 black. 



Beneath : primaries with the markings of the upper side larger and 

 more confluent; the submarginal row of white points much larger, 

 elongate, the median ones conical. Secondaries at extreme base with 

 indistinct white markings surrounded by black, and a red spot on costa; 

 a band of four white spots surrounded by black, followed by a broad 

 irregular red band with a white spot encircled by black in cell; three 

 parallel black wavy lines (the middle nearly obsolete in one specimen) 

 alternating with three rows of white spots, the outer of which is com- 



