MELIT^A I. 



line partly separates them ; in some examples this red stripe is suppressed, or 

 absorljed by the spots of the third row, and in this case there is a black edge on 

 marginal side of the discal band ; the basal area red, the four yellow spots re- 

 peated, all edged with black ; a fifth spot on costal margin ; shoulder and inner 

 margin yellow. 



Body black with long gray hairs on thorax, the collar red ; beneath, thorax 

 buff, abdomen buff, red laterally ; legs red ; palpi red, yellow at base ; antennse 

 either annulated red and bnfl', alternately and equally, or red only ; the under 

 side black ; club black, tip ferruginous. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands 1.6 to 1.9 inch. 



Upper side black, and nearly as in the male ; or there is an excess of red, all 

 the red spots being much enlarged. Beneath as in male. (Figs. 3, 4, 5.) Many 

 females have scarcely any black edging to the spots of the second and third rows 

 on secondaries, and contrast strikingly in this respect with Hubicunda and the 

 other species of the group. (Fig. 5.) 



Egg. — Conoidal, rounded at base and there marked by many shallow indenta- 

 tions ; the sides ribbed vertically, the ribs about twenty in number, straight, low, 

 the spaces between a little excavated ; the top truncated, a little depressed ; 

 color yellow-green. (Fig. a.) 



Young Larva. — Length .08 inch ; cylindrical, of nearly even thickness from 

 2 to 10 ; the segments rounded ; on each segment low conical tubercles, each 

 of which gives a long tapering hair ; under a high power these hairs are seen to 

 be thickly set with barbs ; (Fig. b* ;) the tubercles form six longitudinal rows, on 

 either side one dorsal, one sub-dorsal, one lateral ; on 2 the three are in straight 

 line on the front, and on rear of same segment is another row of four, two on 

 either side, and lying between those of front row ; on 3 the row is straight, on 

 the front ; on 4 the two dorsal tubercles are on front, the others a little behind, 

 so as to form a curved row ; from 5 to 12 inclusive the two dorsals are in front, 

 the 1st and 6th a little back, the 2d and 5th either on middle of the segment or 

 more to the rear ; on 13 are six in front, the 2d and 5th a little back, and l^ehind 

 these six in two longitudinal rows to extremity ; in general the hairs of an- 

 terior segments are turned a little forward, those on posterior half back ; below 

 spiracles is a row of smaller tubercles, Avith shorter hairs, one each on 2, 3, 4, on 

 the rest two, on 13 three, the hairs all bent down, the hindmost one of each 

 pair placed a little higher than the other ; color of body greenish-brown ; head 

 rounded, a little broader than high, a little depressed at suture, the vertices 



