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VOL. ni. BROOKLYN, SEPTEMBER, 1880. No. 



Descriptions of some New Species and Varieties of 

 North American Lepidoptera. 



By Herman Strecker. 



Colias Hela. Body black, with yellow and greenish hairs. 

 Antennae pink. $ 1 5-8 inches in expanse. Upper surface orange 

 coloured, as in Hecla and 3[eadii, with blackish border of both wings 

 plain on inner edge, and same width as in average examples of Hecla, 

 Fieldii, Edum, and allies. 



A small black discal spot on primaries, and an indistinct one with 

 paler centre on secondaries. Under surface greenish, not as dark as 

 in Hecla nor as bright as in 3feadii ; disc of primaries inclining to 

 yellowish ; base and disc of secondaries darker green than rest of 

 surface. Discal spot on primaries small, whitish, and faintly outlined 

 with black; on secondaries, reddish, saggitate in form, and pupilled 

 with white. Fringes of all wings rosy. 



9 expands 1 13-16 inches. Ground colour somewhat more in- 

 clined to yellow than in the $. Primaries with costa blackish ; a 

 very broad black exterior border enclosing live lemon-yellow spots of 

 various sizes more or less ovate in shape. A large black discal spot. 

 Whole surface of secondaries heavily suffused with black scales, which 

 are densest at and near the apex. A sub-marginal row of almost con- 

 fluent yellow spots ; abdominal border yellow. Discal spot large, 

 saggitate, and orange coloured. Under surface as in <j\ with the 

 additional decoration of a smaller second spot also red Avith white 

 centre, which joins the discal spot of secondaries at its costal edge. 



