MELIT^A I. 



MELITiEA BARONI, 1-5. 



Melilma Baroni, Henry Edwards, Papilio, I., p. 52, 1882; W. H. Edwards, Can. Ent., XL, p. 129, 1879. 



Male. — Expands from 1.5 to 1.8 inch. 



Upper side black, spotted with red and pale ochrey-yellow, mostly in common 

 transverse rows ; the spots of the marginal row red, well separated ; of the second 

 row yellow, often quite small on primaries, or mere lines ; of the third row, yel- 

 low on primaries, red on secondaries ; the fourth is bifid on median nervure of 

 primaries, the two branches running to costa, the outer one partly red, partly 

 yellow, the inner one yellow ; from median to inner margin either yellow, or yel- 

 low and red, the outer half each spot being red ; on secondaries the spots of this 

 row are yellow and large ; from outside arc of cell of primaries to base four bars, 

 red and yellow alternately ; a yellow patch below the origin of the lower median 

 nervule ; the basal ai'ea and costal margin much dusted yellow, the shoulder 

 red ; secondaries have a fifth, but deini-row, from costa to median, red, some- 

 times wholly wanting, and four yellow spots on basal area, two in cell, one below 

 cell, one on costal margin ; fringes of both wings yellow, black at the ends of the 

 nervules. 



Under side red, primaries dull, secondaries bright ; both wings have broad mar- 

 ginal borders ; the yellow spots of second and third rows of primaries repeated, 

 the former much enlarged ; a large yellow sub-triangular patch on the sub-costal 

 interspaces ; the yellow spots in and below cell repeated ; secondaries have the 

 yellow spots of second and fourth rows repeated, enlarged, forming two confluent 

 bands, the outer one lightly edged black above and below, the other or discal 

 always edged with black on the basal side, but not always on the marginal side ; 

 the third row is of red spots, each wholly but lightly edged with yellow, except 

 on the marginal side ; between the third and discal row is an intermediate nar- 

 row stripe of red from lower branch of sub-median to upper branch of sub-costal, 

 and this is often confluent with the yellow discal band ; but sometimes a black 



