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rior margin orange red. Hind-wings without black in discal spot, 

 and the red, with an orange shade more prominent. Legs: Coxse and 

 femora black ; the rest yellow. 

 One specimen from Colorado. 



4. Ctenucha pyrrhoura, sp. noe. 



Expands 1 1-4 inches. Head black ; antenna 4 strongly pectinated. 

 Collar bright red. 



Fore-wing* dark smoky brown with slight metallic reflection ; 

 fringe light. Hind-wings blue black, with constant metallic reflection, 

 especially on inner half. All wings very closely in shape like 0. Vir- 

 gin ica. Thorax and abdomen shining metallic blue black; extremity 

 of abdomen bright red. Underneath as above. Fore-legs with coxae 

 bright red posteriorly. The rest black. 



Colorado. Somewhat of a connecting link between Gtenwcka and 

 Scepifii. Easily distinguished from others of its genus by its small 

 size and bright-red collar and tail. 



5. Leucarua nigrofascia, sp. nor. 



Expands 17 lines. Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty white. An- 

 tenna' ciliated, light brown. 



Fore-wing generally a dirty white, made up of a white base thickly 

 peppered with light brown. The costa and middle of posterior edge 

 are somewhat darker than the rest of the wing. A broad, jet-black 

 dash begins just beyond the middle of fore- wing and extends to the 

 outer margin. It is of uniform width, squarely cut off at the inner 

 end, and with edges sharply defined. Hind-wings white. Under- 

 neath : Wings clearer white, with black dash of fore-wings somewhat 

 indistinct. 



One specimen, taken by Mr. Albert Koebele at Tallahassee, Fla. 



6. Melitaea Phaethusa, aler. nor. 



In June, 1880, I took with the net just outside the city line of 

 Brooklyn, at East AVilliamsburgh, a remarkable aberration of M. 

 l'lneton, to which I give the above name. The specimen is a rf. It 

 has the black ground-color of M. J'/refon, but the orange spots are 

 wholly wanting on the upper siirface of the wings ; and beneath 

 there are found only the one near the base, and, almost obsolete, the 

 one along the costa near the base. Antenna 1 , head, and body are 

 the same as in the normal form. This aberration was taken at the 

 same spot where a year before I took M. superha. Streck. It is a 

 melanotic aberration, not. I believe, before noticed in this genus, 

 where suffusion is quite common. 



