1883,] i 73 (Grote, 
such forms as Saguarina, etc., but in my ‘New Check List’’ limited it 
more rigorously to the purple and black forms. Celeris, a magnificent 
species, is, as I twice showed from examination of specimens, a true Meli- 
cleptria, it was misplaced accidentally in my list. Mr. Smith has farther 
taken out a few species described under it by Mr. Hy. Edwards and Mr. 
Morrison, which with similar ornamentation are shown to differ structur- 
ally. I cannot now examine all these while he is apparently justified in 
his course. I cannot believe he has correctly placed Perminuta, but I only 
saw the type, and have never had the species under the microscope. He 
follows Mr. Edwards in regarding my genus Adonisca as synonymous. I 
suspected as much myself, but the species was too handsome to leave un- 
distinguished, and it has a slightly different proportion from the rest. 
This insect, which I call ‘Adonis’ Moth,’’ is purply red and blue, the 
latter shade a very unusual one in the ornamentation of these insects. TIT 
described the genus with other Californian genera, but my present knowl- 
edge of related forms would have deterred me from doing so. The species 
of Melicleptria have naked, small or ornate eyes, which are sunken in the 
hairy vestiture of the retracted head. The middle and hind tibiee are spi- 
nose. The fore tibia in Pulchripennis have a longer inner and two outer 
claws, and as in most of the genera the joint is short. Mr, Smith says 
“the body is clothed with thin divergent hair, usually of a paler color 
than body [?] and somewhat silky.’’ He thus describes the sericeous 
somewhat olivaccous or yellowish longer vestiture on thorax and abdomen 
which is distinctive and with the purply red wings, with paler median 
spots on both pair, is characteristic of most of the species. Mr. Smith 
further gives the “claws of tarsi simple or but slightly dentate.’’ In the 
female the ovipositor is extended beyond the conical and rather short un- 
tufted abdomen. A. typical species is MZ Sueta, with its Californian 
variety Oaliforniensis. 
1. M. Celeris Grote, B. B. 8S. N.S. I., 148. California. 
2, M. Pulchripennis @rote, Ill, Essay, 62, Pl. IL. fig. 81, var, Languida 
Hy. Edw, California. 
8. M. Villosa Grote, P, &. 8. P., 581, Pl. VI., fig. 6. Colorado. 
4, M. Persimilis Grate, B. B. 8. N. 8. T., 117, Pl. IM. 11. Colorado. 
5. M. Greefiana Tepper, Tr. Am. E. 8. 245. California. 
6. M. Honesta Grote, Papilio I., 77. Jalifornia, 
7. M. Sueta Grote, B. B. 8. N. 8. I, 117%. Colorado, 
var Californiensis Grote. California. 
LYGRANTHGICIA G. and R. 
Type: Anth. Rivulosa Gwen. 
The type of this genus was first described as Orambus Marginatus by 
Haworth. It is a sufficient answer to Mr. Smith’s prejudiced procedure of 
calling this genus Sehinia, and giving himself the air of first discovering 
it, to quote my words from my paper in the Buffalo Bulletin IL., 220, 
which is the only one I had published on the subfamily Heliothinw. ‘The 
