52 LEPIDOPTEEA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



M. anicia, but unfortunately they have not represented the under 

 side, which in many species it is important to know. The upper 

 side of the secondaries of their M. anicia has a marginal series of 

 three fulvous bands, whilst in this species the intermediary range 

 is pale yellow. 



Upper side blackish-brown, with the fringe whitish, some spots 

 of bright fulvous and some yellow spots disposed in transverse 

 bands ; the four bands of the secondaries alternately yellow and 

 fulvous, interrupted ; the one before the last yellow and that which 

 precedes it fulvous, the spots slightly pupilled with. yellow; the 

 upper edge of the primaries reddish. 



Under side fulvous, with bands ochry yellow, more or less edged 

 with brown ; that of the secondaries, with each spot of the ante- 

 penultimate band, pupilled with ochry yellow. 



The female is nearly similar to the male, with the primaries a 

 little more rounded at the summit. 



California. 



BOISD. 



5. M. palla Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 305. M. nycteis Double- 

 day. 



Upper side bright fulvous. 



Under side of primaries fulvous, with a terminal band of ochry 

 yellow. 



Under side of secondaries fulvous, with two bands of ochry yel- 

 low, edged with brown, and some basal spots of the same color, 

 forming an irregular band ; posterior band nearly terminal, formed 

 by crescents more or less large ; that which precedes it is cut 

 longitudinally by two irregular blackish lines. 



The female is very different from the male ; the spots of the 

 under side are usually of a pale ochry yellow, except the small 

 marginal crescents and the antepenultimate band of the seconda- 

 ries, which are fulvous. On the under side the ochry yellow bands 

 cover nearly the whole surface, and the fulvous is reduced on the 

 secondaries to marginal crescents, a row of five or six large points, 

 and some basal spots. 



California. 



BOISD. 



