80 SYNOPTIC TABLE OF LEPIDOPTERA. 



Melitsea, Fabr. 



8. M. Colon, IT. H. Edwards*, nor. sp. Size and general appear- 

 ance of GhcUcedon ; under side intense red. banded as < 'halcedon, but 

 the second red band from margin on secondaries is not made up of 

 "red spots, lunulse or rounded," but is a continuous band without 

 yellow, and the sub-marginal yellow spots of both wings are in the 

 male more deeply excavated, in the female higher, lanceolate, deeply 

 excavated. Expanse of male, 2 inches ; of female, 2"3 inches. Mount 

 Hood, Oregon. Collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison in 1880. 



9. M. Ferdiceas, W. H. Edit-., n. sp. Male: Upper side dull black- 

 brown, spotted with buff and dull red, the spots disposed as in (Jhal- 

 cedon ; under side of primaries dull red, hind margin dull orange ; 

 secondaries have orange margin, sub-marginal yellow lunules not 

 much excavated, edged all round by black, then a row of orange lu- 

 nules, with very little yellow about the edges of some of them, then 

 yellow discai band, cut near posterior side by a black line ; on basal 

 area, 5 yellow spots, on a darker or redder ground than elsewhere. 



Female: Similar to male. Expanse of male, 1"7 inch ; of female, 

 same. Mt. Hood, Idaho. Collected by Mr. H. K. Morrison in 1880. 



10. M. Baroni, H. Edw., "71/**." Male: Shape of Editha, Rdv/, 

 and belongs to same sub-group ; color black, spotted with pale yel- 

 low and deep red ; fore-wings have a marginal series of red spots, 

 followed by two rows of yellow, and a third, bifid, yellow partly suf- 

 fused red ; four spots in cell alternately red and yellow from the arc ; 

 and yellow spot below cell ; hind-wings have marginal series of red 

 spots, followed by one of yellow, of red, of yellow, and a demi-row of 

 red on anterior part of wing ; three yellow spots near base ; fringes 

 alternately black and yellow. Under side light red, with bands of 

 pale yellow, the red largely predominating ; the absence of black is 

 peculiar and characteristic of this species ; both margins bordered 

 by a continuous red band, followed by crescent yellow spots, con- 

 fluent on hind-wings, edged narrowly externally on fore-wings by 

 black and on both sides on hind-Avings ; fore-wings have a second 

 yellow series edged on inner side by black, yellow on both sides arc, 

 and yellow bands across cell, and spots near base, edged black ; on 

 hind-wings the third series from margin is red, narrowly edged on 

 three sides by yellow, then a red band and a yellow one, the latter 

 edged black on inner side ; basal area red with four separate yellow 

 spots, all black edged. 



Female : Very like <$ ; in some examples the red bands of upper 

 side are broader and the yellow arc much suffused red ; under side 

 characterized by same absence of black. Expanse of tf, 15 to 17 

 inch ; of Q, 1 # 7 to 1-9 inch. Northern California. 



