December 1882. SYNOPTIC TABLES/OF LEPIDOPTERA. 61 
MELITZEA, “adr. 
24. M. Fulvia, W.H Liw. Male: Upper side brown-black 
at base, dusted with fulvous or partly replaced by fulvous; costal margin 
and apex of primaries black, and both hind margins edged black; rest 
fulvous; both have a sub-marginal series of fulvous spots preceded by a 
black line, and beyond a common series of yellow spots; next a series a- 
cross disk larger, and on secondaries elongated, and more or less conflu- 
ent with the spots of the outer row: on primaries a large yellow spot edged 
fulvous inside arc of cell and two or three spots below cell; in cell of sec- 
ondaries a similar spot; fringes alternately and equally black and white. 
Underside of primaries pale orange fulvous, the light spots repeated; sec- 
ondaries wholly yellow-buff, mervules broadly edged black, and ail the 
-margins edged black; across the extra discal area a black band, inside with 
six or seven small yellow spots. Expanse 1.5 inch. 
Female same size; the fulvous shade predominates, only apex and 
costal margin of primaries and both hind margins being black; the yel- 
low markings indistinct. 
Unde: side asin male. Western Texas and Southern Colorado. 
25. M. Ulrica, WH. Ldw., (MZ. Lmitata, Strecker.) Male: Up- 
per side black marked and spotted with deep red-fulvous, much as in 
Phycwdes Vesta; both wings have a submarginal series of small crescents, 
succeeded on primaries bya sinous row of small spots, and next a bent row 
of larger ones; a fourth row curves round end of cell; some spots on and 
below cell. Secondaries have two rows of irregular small spots across ex- 
tra discal area and a broad band on disk. Under side of primaries black 
over the outer fourth; next margin a narrow band of confluent spots, and 
beyond a row of small white spots; next the second row of upper side is ~ 
repeated, making third row here; beyond to base mostly fulvous, the spots 
of upper side imperfectly repeated; secondaries have a marginal band 
and a row of crenated white spots; beyond these the ground is black and 
in this is a row of small rounded fulvous spots; across the 
disk a row of white points and a white band: beyond to base fulvous on 
black ground, but with a white spot in cell and a band near base, another 
at base. 
Female similar to male, the fulvous paler. Expanse of male .85 in., 
of female .g inch. San Antonio, Texas. 
26. M. Dymas; W. H. Edw., (Al. Larunda, Strecker.) Male: 
Upper side brownish-black, marked and spotted with orange fulvous; 
primaries have a submarginal row of rounded spots, obsolete on apical 
