APPENDIX SS. 1855 



Genus MELITCEA Fabr. 



Melittra Fratensis var. Fallida. 



Melitfea Pallida. KDWAUDS (W. IT.), Prom-dings of the Fnt.miolo-ieal Sorii-tv of Philadel- 



phia. ii. p. 50") (1864). MEAD, \\' heeler's Report, v, p. 763 (1875). 

 Melitcea Pratensis var. Pallida, STRKCKKR, Syn. Catalogue, p. 121 (1878). 

 Phyciodes Cainillus, EDWARDS (W. H.), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 268 (1871). Mr \i> Wheel- 



er's Kept. ]>. 7(>4 (1ST.".). 

 Phyciodes Emisxa, EDWARDS (W. H.), Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iii, p. 269 (1871). 



Taken latter part of July and beginning of August at \Ve4>minuche Creek and other 

 localities along the route; it is the Colorado form of the Califomian /'//<//*/* IJelir.. 

 and is also found in Utah, Kansas, and Texas. 



Jfelifwa A 



Melitwa Xi/ctfift. Dorni.EDAY \- HKWITSON. C.enera of Diurnal Lepidoptera. p. 181. t. 23, f. 3 

 (184t>-1850). MoiiRis. Syn. Leji. N. Am. p. 325 (1862). STRKCKKR, Syn. Catalogue. p.' 122 

 ( 187o) . 



Melittra Ocnone. ScrnnKH, Pror. Kssex Tnst, iii, p. 166 (1862). 



Melitoea Nyctit, BOISDI -\.\\.. Lep. Cat. Ann. Sor. Ent. Beljiiqne. p. 53 (1869). 



Melitcea llarrixii, EDWARDS (W. 11.), Canadian Entomologist, ii, p. Kili (1870). 



Two examples, male and female, taken near the headwaters of the San Juan Kivrr. 

 AngustS; these, as are all the Colorado examples I have yet seen, are niueli darker 

 than those from more eastern localities. It is a species found from Canada to Virginia 

 and from the Atlantic westward to the Kooky Mountains. 



MeUUm Nlnuia. 



Kept, v, p. 760 (1875). 



One male, September 15, in the Lower Florida Valley, above the Indian reservation ; 

 this beautiful and somewhat rare species belongs to the same group as the European 

 Cinjcia L. and Phoebe Knoch, which latter it much resembles on both surfaces in color 

 and ornamentation. 



^[^^t(<ea Anicia var. Xnbifjena. 



Melitcea Nubigena, BKHK., Proceedings of the California Academy ol Natural Sciences, iii, 



p. 91 (18(5:!). 

 Melitcea Anicia var. Nubigena, STHKCKKU, Syn-. Catalogue, p. 124 (1878). 



Several males and females taken July SI at Pagosa Springs, and observed previously 

 at other places. 



Mditiva Alma. 



Melitcea Alma. STKKCKKH. Lepidoptera Khopaloceres and Heteroceres, i, p. 135, 1. 15, f. 1 (1877)- 

 Syuonymieal Catalogue p. 189 (1878). 



One male of this beautiful and rare insect was taken at the Rio Florida above the 

 Indian Reservation. It is nearly allied to Leamra Bill., but differs from that species 

 remarkably on the upper surface, in which the black ground-color is replaced by bright 

 fulvous. The type was received from Arizona; it was also a male. 



Genus VANESSA Fabr. 

 Vanessa Antlopa. 



Vanessa Antinpa. LTXXK (Papilio A.), Svstema Xatnrse. ed. x, p. 476 (1758); ed. xii, i. 2. p. 

 776 (1767). HtJHNKK, Europiiische Sclnnetterlinge, i, f. 79, 80 (1805). HKKUST, Natursyst. 

 Schmetterlinge, vii, p. 96, t. 166 (1794). GODAKT (Vanessa A.), Enc. Meth. ix, p. 308 (]81<)). 

 BOISD. & LEC., Lej). Am. Sept. p. 173 (1833). HARRIS, Ins. Inj. Veg. 3d ed. p. 296. f. ll'l. 12'J 

 (1862). MORRIS. Svu. Lep. N. Am. p. 57 (1862). STRECKKR, Syn. Catalogue, p. 133 (1878). 



Papilio Morio, LINNE. Fauna Sueeiea. ed. i, p. 232 (1746). 



Papilio Pompadour, POLUCH, Beinerk. Churpf. Oek. Ges. (1779). 



Of this cosmopolitan species one female was captured, September 15, at the Lower 

 Rio Florida. There was no note of any more having been noticed 1>\ the expedition. 



Genus PYRAMEIS Hub. 

 Pyrawdx Alalavta. 



I'i/rameis Atalanta. LINNE (Papilio A.). Systema Xatune. ed. x. ]>. 478 (1758); ed. xii. 1. 2 p. 



779(1767) : Faun. Suee. p. 279 (1701). HKKUST. Xatursyst. Selmiett. vii. j,. 171, t. 180 (1794). 



B(.)isi>. & LEC. (Vanessa A.). Lep. Am. Sejit. p. 175 (1833). HARRIS (Ci/ntltia A.), Ins. Inj. 



Veg. 3d ed. p. 294, f. 120 (1862). MOKKIH (Pyrameis A.), Svu. Le]>. \'. Am. p. f>8 (l8tiL>). 



STRECKER. Syn. Catalogue, p. 135 (1878). 

 Papilio Ainiralix. Kicr/Ji s. (Jen. et Sp. Ins. 31 (1783). 



One male, July 21, at Pagosa Springs. Others were seen here and there on the route. 



