LEPIDOPTEKA— NYMPBAL1DAE— MEL1TAEA ACASTUS. 7(U 



near Denver. Specimens were taken on Turkey Creek in June, at 

 Twin Lakes about the middle of July, and near Denver on the 20th of 

 August ; this last specimen was quite fresh, so probably there is a second 

 brood in the warmer parts of Colorado. 



tMELITiEA MINUTA, Edw. 

 Plate XXXVI, Figs. 1-2. 

 Melitwa Minuta, Edw., Pioc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861, 161. 



This beautiful species, originally described from Texas by Mr. Edwards, 

 was taken in the vicinity of Santa F4, N. Mex., bv Mr. H. W. Henshaw. 

 Not known to occur in Colorado. 



t MELIT,EA ACASTUS, Edw. 

 ■Melitcea Acastus, Edw., Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, 1871. 



Male. — Expands 1.5 inches. Size and form of M.Palla; paler fulvous; 

 the spots and bands closely like that species, and on a fuscous ground; 

 fringes similar also. 



Under side of primaries pale fulvous, reddish next base and across the 

 disk next the submarginal spots, yellow fulvous at extremity of and below 

 cell and along the origin of the nervules ; a fuscous patch on middle of 

 inner margin, and four fuscous, rounded spots forming a bent oblique line 

 reaching from costal edge to median nervule ; hind margin edged by a nar- 

 row fulvous band, slightly wavy on inner edge; submarginal spots large, 

 lanceolate, yellow- white, the three next inner angles suffused with fulvous ; 

 the three subapical spots yellow- white on fuscous ground ; costal edge yel- 

 low-white. 



Secondaries nearly covered with large yellow-white spots, in bands, 

 separated by fuscous lines ; the marginal edge bordered as in primaries ; 

 the submarginal spots lunular ; the spots of second row small, subrect- 

 angular, and each except the two outei* having a minute "Orange spot near 

 its posterior edge, sometimes represented by a few scales only; the spots of 

 the third, or discal row, long, conforming to the interspaces, almost a con- 

 tinuous band, the nervules that divide them being but partially fuscous ; 

 the anterior portion of these spots, on both margins, cut off by an irregular 

 black line ; the fourth row is basal and is separated from the third by a 



