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broad pale yellow band traversed and edged with wavy 

 black lines, which with the black veins divide it into a series 

 of checkers ; on the shoulders of these wings a long pale 

 yellow spot surrounded with black, behind which are three 

 square ones of the same colors, contiguous by their sides, 

 and behind these two more joining each other by their 

 angles. 



Expands 1? inch. 



I think it possible that this species may be distinct from 

 the Ismeria, which is known to me only by Dr. Boisduval's 

 figure.* The wings are short and broad, and the feelers 

 longer and more slender at their tips than in the Phaeton. 

 In the markings of the under side of its hind wings it ap- 

 proaches to the Maturna, Cynthia, and Ossianus of Europe. 

 The only specimen which I have seen was sent to me by 

 Dr. D. S. C. II. Smith of Sutton. 



Melittea Pharos, Drury. Pharos Butterfly. (Fig. 116, male. 

 "Pig. 117, female.) 



AVings short and broad, tawny-orange above, with a broad 

 black hind border, on which is a row of narrow tawny cres- 

 cents, and before these a row of round black spots, much 



Fig. 116. Fig. 117. 



more distinct on the hind than on the fore wings ; the rest 

 of the wings, from the middle to the base, is marked with 

 narrow black spots, running together like network ; and 

 on the fore wings is a large black spot, extending nearly 

 half across the wing ; the under side of the fore wings is 

 tawny, variegated with black and brown, with a buff-colored 



* Hist, des L^pidopt. de I'Am^rique Septent, pi. 46. 

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