212 . ORDER LEProOPTERA. 



Abgtnnis idealia. 

 Antenna; brown, tipped with rufous. Forewings a buflf brown : costa and margin black, 

 marked by five subcostal bands, besides the straight band which forms a delta with 

 the fourth : apex black, marked with four white elongated subcostal spots : disk 

 marked by a row of five round spots, besides which there are two lunules in reversed 

 position with respect to each other, and two rather quadrangular spots ; the outer 

 margin is trimmed with black, bearing a row of eight or nine white spots. Hindwings 

 dark or very dark brown, but lighter at the base, and marked with two rows of large 

 white spots. Beneath, the forewings present much the same pattern, except that the 

 white border spots are more distinctly in the form of short arrowheads bordered with 

 black. Hindwings very uniformly dark brown, and spotted with large white spots : 

 there are three parallel rows, and the basal cluster might be called a fourth ; the 

 shoulders have also a white stripe running along the edge of the wing. Expanse of 

 wing, four inches. 

 This species is far less common in the vicinity of Albany than the aphrodite. 



Melitjea PttETON. ( Plate xliii, figs. 4, 7.) 



Stipe of the autennai ringed with black and white : knob, base fulvous, middle black, 

 tip gray : palpi, eyes and feet rufous. Head black, with a ring of white around the 

 eyes, and a row of white spots passing around the head just behind the antennse. 

 Thorax and upper side of the abdomen black, with a few white dots along the top, 

 and two rows along the sides. Beneath the abdomen is marked wilh a rufous red 

 series of largish spots on each side, and the venter with a row of yellowish white 

 spots. Upper side : Wings black : outer margins ornamented with four rows of 

 spots ; the outer row rufous, resting on the nervures, and divided ; the three inner, 

 yellowish white ; the innermost row short : beyond the rows there are two or three 

 dashes of red, parallel with the costa. Hind- marked like the forewings, except the 

 short row of spots is wanting. Beneath, the surface of both pairs is marked with 

 four rows of yellow spots between two of brown, except the inner brown row of the 

 forewing is replaced by two large brown subcostal spots : on the hindwings, there is 

 a cluster of brown and yellow spots at the base. It should be noted that the yellow 

 spots of the outer row are all lunules opening outwards. Expanse of wing, 2 inches. 

 This season (1853) this butterfly is quite common, while in former years it was scarce. 



Melitjea phabos. ( Plate xliii, figs. 5 & 6.) 



Head, body and wings black, marked with numerous red and yellow spots. Hindwings 



marked with six orange-colored spots extending across the wing, the concavities 



turned towards the base of the wing. Outside of these spots, there is a row of six 



