AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 207 



Notes on a rsmarkable variety of PAPILIO TURNUS, and descriptions of 

 two species of DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



BY W. 11. EDWARDS, op Coalburgh, West Va. 



Notes on Papilio Turnns. 

 I have lately received (Sept. 1, 1868,) from a young friend in this 

 neighborhood a newly taken specimen of Turmis, one-half of which is 

 black (GIauciis\ the other yellow {Tiirmis), the dividing line passing 

 down the middle of the body. By the conspicuous blue spots upon 

 the margin of the yellow side, evidently that side represents the yel- 

 low female, not the male, which would remove it from the class of her- 

 maphrodites. In this region both the black and yellow females of 

 Turnus are abundant, and are perhaps about equal in number. I 

 have several times seen the black variety mottled over the whole sur- 

 face, partly yellow, partly black, in irregular patches. 



MELIT^i^ Marcia, n. sp. 



Male. Expands 1.3 to 1.5 inch. 



Upper side fulvous : primaries have a broad black band extending 

 along the hind margin and around the apex upon the costa, one-half 

 the length of the latter, and divided by a fulvous sinus beyond the cell 

 that reaches nearly to the costal edge ; this marginal band encloses on 

 its inner side, below the middle, one or two fulvous spots which are 

 sometimes lunular bat often irregular, and which form part of a series 

 running along the whole margin, occasionally seen with distinctness but 

 generally more or less obsolete ; costal edge black ; across the outer 

 limb, parallel with the inner edge of the marginal band, a crenated line, 

 sometimes obsolete, but often conspicuous and in such case cuttino" off 

 a submarginal series of fulvous lunules ; a black patch on middle of in- 

 ner margin. 



Secondaries have a broad black hind margin, through which runs a 

 greyish-white crenated line from one angle to the other ; a submar- 

 ginal series of six rounded black spots, minute towards outer an^le • 

 above these a line more or less distinct expanded on costal maro-in into 

 ^a long triangular patch; base of both wings reticulated with black 

 lines between which some of the spaces are filled in with black, but by 

 no means so densely covered as in Batesii; fringes greyish, cut with 

 black at tips of nervules. 



