130 NEW SPECIES, VARIETIES, &c. 



Catocala Stretchii, Behr. The several examples of what I am almost certain is this species I have not been able to compare 

 with the unique type in the coll. of Dr. Behr in San Francisco, but I have received from that .savan a beautifully coloured figure made 

 bv Stretch from the type ; with this figure these Arizona examples agree except that in them the mesial band of .secondaries is narrower 

 aiid some of the red ground colour exlemls beyond the outer edge of tlie black subiuarginal band ; there is also some difference in the 

 red colour, that on the figure being a little darker, but I scarce think I am wrong in deciding these Arizona examples as Stretchii. Dr. 

 Behr'stype was taken by Mr. Stretch in Nevada and was described in Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, III, p. 24, (1870). 



Besides the above and the rare species to be described and illustrated in succeeding pages were received Papilio Daunus,"^ Colias 

 Edwardsii,j Anth. Oreusa,X Julia,l Lycaena Oro,\\ Heleronm,'}^ Zeroe*" ThedaCrysabis,\\ Niphon var. Eryphon,XX Acadica//^ Apodemia 

 Mormo,\\\\ Argyn. Noknmis,'i,% Aphrodite*** IIesperis,fff Edwardsii,XtX el var. Nevadensis/Hif. Coronis,\\\\\\ Myrina,^^\\ Mdilaea Palla var. 

 Wliitneyi**** .A't/ii5CTa,iff+ Satyrvs Kephde uir. A-iiane,XXXX Pamphita Oltoe,i'/.m. Lita /Sej;,?i^mttta,|[j|j||| Syneda Soeia.^^^y^ Adum- 

 brata***** IIowlandii,ff\f'^ Goiytodes Trilinearia.XXXtt ^'id sundry others which lime has not yet enabled me to examine fully. 



The following descriptions of New Lepidoptera arc from examples captured liy Mr. J. Boll, mo.stly in the 

 vicinity of New Braunfcls: and San Antonia, Southwestern Texas : 



Melitaea Imitata, n. sp. (^ expands 1 inch. Wings narrower and more elongate propoitionally than in 31. Vesta which is 

 probably its nearest ally. Upper surface much as in Ffs/a but the blackish ujarkings especially of secondaries much heavier; in the 

 primaries there is no notable difierence, but the secondaries have a broad marginal black border comprising fully the outer third of the 

 wing ; within this b(uder are two rows of fulvous crescents, those of the outermost one being the smaller. The under surface is peculiar, 

 resembling much tliat of M. Harrisii both in style and colouration. The inner half of primaries is paler fulvous than above; the outer 

 margin has a narrow darker fulvous band, interior to this is a broad black band, irregular on its inner edge and broadest at cosia ; 

 within this band are two rows of crescents of various sizes; the outermost row is pale yellow, the other fulvous; this black marginal 

 band is succeeded inwardly at some distance by a very irregular narrow band or line of unequal width which extends from costa to 

 inner margin ; between this latter band and the base of wing are several black lines of the usual style ; fringes black cut with white 

 between the veins. Secondaries, outer margin narrowly fulvous as in primaries, thence one-third of the wing is black ; within this 

 latter colour towards outer margin is a row of pale yellow lunules, the ones nearest to apex and anal angles small, the others large and 

 with the exception of the third from anal angle, which is the greatest, much of the same size. This broad black submarginal space or 

 band is succeeded by an irregular pale yellow mesial band divided transversely by a black line and bordered inwardly by another ; 

 the rest of wing interior to this is fulvous, having a yellow spot in discoidal cell ; between this sjiot and the base is an irregular yellow 

 band lined on both edges with black also a yellow band lined with black at base. Body black or blackish brown above, below pale 

 yellow; antennae black ringed with white. 



$ a little larger and with the black markings not quite as heavy. 



Mei.itae.v Larunda, n. sp. Expands 1 J inches. Wings even more elongate than in the preceding. Upper surface fulvous, 

 not dark. Fringes whitish, grey at terminations of nervnles. A fuscous band on exterior margin of all wings; this band is almost 

 entirely occupied with hmiiles of the same colour as ground of wings ; on the primaries three of these lunules nearest to the inner angle 

 are largest and nearly of equal size, the remaining four are smaller and the one nearest to apex is a mere dot. On secondaries the 

 lunules nearest apex and anal angle are the smallest, the others do not differ much in size. Interior to these marginal lunules on 

 primaries are two irregular partly obselele black lines extending from costa to inner margin, heaviest near costa; in the discoidal cell 

 and at basal part are some more irregular blackish lines. On basal half of .secondaries a few faint abbreviated wavy lines. Under 

 surface; primaries much the same colour as above ; a narrow darker fulvous band on exterior margin succeeded inwardly by a row 

 of lunules ; the first six from costa are pale yellow edged with blackish, the remaining two at inner angle are fulvous and merged into 

 the narrow margin of same colour; at .some distance interior to this row of lunules is a blacki.sh line heaviest at costa and not 

 reaching quite to the interior margin ; five other abbreviated lines extend from costa inwards to the median nervure. Secondaries 

 fulvous with a marginal row of seven pale yellow lunules, the ones nearest apex and anal angle are the smallest, the third one from 

 anal angle the largest, and the other four arc nearly of cqiuil size; an irregular pale yellow mesial band lined inwardly with black 

 and divided through the middle by a black lijie and further at tlie costal third by another black line ; a pale yellow spot in the dis- 

 coidal cell, between which and the base an irregular pale yellow band edged with black extends from costa to inner margin ; at base 

 of wing also a narrow yellow band edged outwardly with black. Fringe white with grey at terminations of nervnles. 



In spite of its diminutiveness this little .species, which is one of the most remarkable yet discovered in this country, brings 

 strongly to mind certain species of Acraea such as Violce, Fab., and Rahira, Bdl. 



LiBYTHEA Larvata, n. sp. (j^ size and shape of Sachmani; the black and fulvous colours of upper surface arranged nearly 

 the same as in that s|iecies, but the shape and colour of the subapical spots and bars are different ; these are washed with fulvous in the 

 present species whilst in Bachmani tlicy are ]iure white; in the latter the white discal bar is on both surfiices entirely disconnected and 

 distant from the white spot near the middle of exterior margin, neither is it in a line with it; the present species diflers entirely there- 

 from in the arrangement of these spots, as follows: besides the subapical one, which is quite small, an interrujited band composed of 

 three spots extends from middle of costa nearly to the middle of exterior margin ; the first of these spots is small and is on the costal 

 nervure, the second which does not cjuile join it is large and at its lower ]Joint nearest outer margin is joined by innermost angle, near- 

 est costa, of the last spot which is square. Under surface, primaries have the chain of three spots nearly as above but a little larger and 



*P. Dmimis, Bdl., Sp. Gen. I, p. .34'2, (1836). fC. Edwardxii, Behr, Edwds.' Butt. N. Am. I, t. 6, Col. (1870). J^lnM. Oreusa, 

 Dbldy.-Hew., Gen. Diur. Lep., p. 50, t. 7, (1847). M"'/'- J'dia, W. H. Edwds., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 61, (1872). \\Lyc. Oro, 

 Scud., Can. Ent. YlII, ]). 23, (1876). ']Lyc. Heleronea, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2me Ser. X, p. 298, (1852). **Lyc. Zeroe, Bdl., Lep. Cal., 

 p. 45, (1869.) j-f Theda Crysahis, AV. H. Edwds., Trans. Aiu. Ent. Soc. IV, p. 344, ( 1873). JiTA. Eryphon, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 

 2me Ser. X, p. 289, (1852). ^^/T//. ^carf/ca, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Acad. Xat. Sc. Phil., p. 55,(1862). \\\\Ap. 3/orniO, Feld., Wien. 

 Ent. Mon. Ill, p. 271, (18.59). i^Arg. Nohomis, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Acad. Xat. Sc. Phil., )). 221, (1862). ***Arq. Aphrodite, Fabr., 

 Mant. Ins. II, p. 62, (1787). fffArq. Hesperis, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. IF, p. 502, ( 1864). Xtt^^g- Edumrdsii, Reak,, 1, c. 

 VI, p. 137, (1866). J(iM'"</- -^swdcnsis, W. H. Edwds., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Ill, p. 14, (1870). ||||Mcj. Coronis, Behr, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sc. II, p. 173, (1858-1862). Ulll^r?. Myriva, Cram., Pap. Ex. II, t. 189. (1779). ****Md. Whitneyi, Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sc. Ill, p. 88, (1803). ttttil/. Nnbigena, Behr, 1. c. p. 91. XtttSalyrus Arinne, Bdl., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., 2me Ser. X, p. 307, (1852). 

 IW^Pcmp^i^ Or/oe, W. H. Edwds., Proc. Ent. Soc. VI, p. 207, (1867). ||||||||iiVa Sex.iigvafa, Harvev, Buff, Bull. II, p. 280, (1875). 

 ^^''i'\ Syneda Socia, Behr, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Ill, p. 27, (1870). *****S. Adumbrata, Behr, 1. c. +tttt.S'. Howlandii. Grote, Proc. 

 Ent. Soc, Phil, III, p. 533, t, VI, (1864). XUi+Oorytodes Trilinearia, Pack., Havden's Geo. Survev, X, p. 202, t. IX, f. 33, (1876). 



