GENUS COLIAS Fab. 



Inferior palpi much compressed, covered with short silky hairs, generally 

 rose red, last article much shorter than the proceeding ; antennae straight, 

 short, rose redeterminating in an obtuse cone, which extends more than a 

 fourth of their length; abdomen shorter than the secondaries: thorax 

 robust ; color more or less lively yellow and orange, border black. 



It seems that nearly all of this group have their female albino varieties. 



Group I. [Meganostoma, Reak. Wings slightly falcate.] 



1. C. Ceesonia, Stall. Male; wings yellow ; primaries with a black basal 

 patch; cell nlar spot black; abroad irregular field of the same color cover- 

 ing nearly the entire disk, the indentations of which form the distinct out- 

 line of a dogs head, of which the diseoidal spot form the eye; secondaries 

 with a black border den'ated within, and two large diseoidal orange spots ; 

 underside bright yellow, diseoidal spots silvery, circled in primaries with 

 black, in secondaries with ferruginous. 



Female same as male, but less bright and with one or more yellow streaks 

 on the blaek field near the apex ; the border on secondaries is si ighter and 

 disconnected. Expands 2 to 2 3 4 inches. U.S. 



A female variety from the West has the upperside more heavily marked 

 with black. r and the underside of secondaries and the apex of primaries beauti- 

 ful rose red. 



2. Eurydice, B'cM. Male; ground color bright orange wilh a purple re- 

 flection on primaries ; markings bo1h above and below much the same as the 

 above. Female dirty yellowish white, diseoidal spot on primaries black ; un- 

 derside of primaries dirty white with a greenish tinge, of secondaries light 

 green. Expands 2 to 2% inches. Cal. 



Group II. 



3. C. Philodice, Godt. Male, ground color lemon yellow ; wings bordered 

 with black, wider at the apex ; diseoidal spot in primaries black, in seci >nd aries 

 bright yellow ; underside of primaries pale yellow with a submarginal row of 

 small black spots ; diseoidal spot black with a yellow streak: secondaries 

 bright yellow with a row of brown spots parallel to the margin, and a small 

 pa "eh on the cos' a ; two ferruginous diseoidal spots, the larger one with a 

 silver center ; fringes pink. Female, 'ground color paler yellow ; binders 

 broader, more or less macular in primaries ; underside as in male, but with a 

 greenish tinere on secondaries and markings generally heavier. Expands 

 1% to 2% inches. U.S. 



White female variety.— 



4. C. Occidentalis, Sevdder. Male, upperside same as the above, excepting 

 the diseoidal spot, which is substituted by a pale black ring ; underside pale 

 yellow; a single diseoidal spot on secondaries, bordered by ferruginous; 

 fringes pink. Female; wings pale yellow, the secondaries sometimes with- 

 out a marginal band ; that of primaries is broad, faintly marked, consisting 

 merely of patches of gray scales enclosing large yellow spots; diseoidal 

 spots larger and heavier than in the male ; fringes pink. Expands li inches. 

 Brit. Am. 



White female variety. — 



5. C.Alexandra, W. H. Edwards. Male; upperside pale yellow with 

 black borders and black diseoidal spot on primaries, that on secondaries is 

 white, hardly discernable ; underside of primaries pale yellow, of seconda- 

 ries greenish ; the diseoidal spot on secondaries is small, pearl white. 

 Female; ground color somewhat pjaler, diseoidal spot on primaries large, 

 black; the border on secondaries is absent, on primaries, macular, very 

 faint, sometimes almost entirely wanting ; underside same as male. Ex- 

 pands 1% to 2 %mches. Col. 



