SYNOPTIC TABU-; OF LEP1D0PTERA. 97. 



Melitsea, Fabr. 



11. M. Rubicunda, Hy. Edw. -'Mss." Male: Wine black on up- 

 per side; forewings have a marginal deep red row, a second of minute spots 

 either of same red, or of mixed red and yellow, sometimes obsolete; the 

 third row small yellow; fourth wholly red, with a yellow fork on inner 

 side against cell; four spots on cell, red and yellow alternately, the yellow 

 suffused red. Hind wings have three red rows, counting the marginal, 

 with no yellow, or the second is sometimes yellow, or it is obsolete; the 

 fourth row, across middle of disk, yellow, but sometimes the outer half 

 or less of each spot is red; the fifth is a demi-row of red on anterior half 

 wing; four yellow spots on basal area and sometimes a fifth on inner mar- 

 gin; fringes alternately black and yellow. Under side red of a darker 

 shade than Baroni, an'd there is much more black, all bands being edged 

 black, and rather broadly; hind wings have a red marginal band, then a 

 row of yellow lunules, followed by a red row, which have sometimes a few 

 yellow scales about anterior edges, but as often none, then a red row and 

 yellow; basal area red with four yellow spots, the yellow varies in shade 

 from bright to pale. Size of Baroni. 



Female: Expands i S inch. All colors on upper side duller, the red 

 brownish, the yellow spots often almost covered with red; under side also 

 has the red dull or brownish, the yellow deep, rarely pale; the black edg- 

 ings conspicuous. Northern California. 



Note. Mr. Baron has bred "Baroni" and "Rubicunda'" from the egg. 



12. M. Helvia, S udder. Sex not stated, described from one 

 specimen taken at the Ramparts, Alaska. Allied to "Anicia". Upper 

 side blackish-fulvous, covered wtth dull white and fulvous spots. Beneath 

 cinnamon-brown, hind wings with a sub-marginal row of large white lun- 

 ules, and a band across disk, within this four or five whitish spots. Ex- 

 panse i - 5 inch. 



13. M. Sterope (Acastus,) W. H, Edw., Male: Upper side 

 blackish-brown with white spots; on fore wings two marginal rows of small 

 spots, anterior to these a bifid row of large spots; hind wings have a mar- 

 ginal row of white crescents, preceded by a row of points, and a third row 

 of large spots, discal. Beneath, hind wings have a marginal row ol large 

 white crescents, before this a white band which contains a series of small 

 ochraceous spots, each enclosing a white point; across disk a second band 

 of long white spots; basal arae ochraceous enclosing six white spots. 



Female: Has both hind margins of upper side bordered by ochrace- 

 ous crescents and the second row of spots is partly replaced by the same 

 color. Expanse of male r*8 inch, of female 1*9 inch. Oregon. 



Errata. On page 80, No. 9. ninth line for "M. Perdiceas" read "M. Perdiccas," 

 and on eighteenth line for "Mt. Hood, Idaho" read "Mt. Hood; Idaho." 



