112 ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 



Alvc.YNMS lm.W.IA. 



Antenna- brown, tipped with rufous. Forewings a buff brown : eosta and margin black, 

 marked by five subcostal bands, besides the straight band which forms a delta with 

 the fourth : apex black, marked with four white elongated subcostal spots : disk 

 marked by a row of five round spots, besides which there are tw<> lunules iu reversed 

 position with respect to each other, and two rather quadrangular spots; the outer 

 margin is trimmed with Mack, bearing a row of eight or nine white spots, Hindwings 

 dark or very dark brown, but lighter at the base, and marked w Lth two rows of large 

 white S] ots. B an &th, the forewings present much the same pattern, except that the 

 white border spots are more distinctly in the form of short arrowheads bordered with 

 black. Hindwings very uniformly dark brown, and spotted with large white spots : 

 there are three parallel rows, and the basal cluster might be called a fourth; the 

 shoulders have also a white stripe running along the edge of the wing. Expanse of 

 wing, four inches. 

 This species is far less common in the vicinity of Albany than the aphrodite. 



Melit-ea photon. ( Plate xliii, figs. 4, 7.) 



Stipe of the antenna; ringed with black and white : knob, base fulvous, middle black, 

 tip gray : palpi, eyes and feet rufous. Head black, with a ring of white around the 

 eyes, and a row of white spots passing around the head just behind the antenna?. 

 Thorax and upper side of the abdomen black, with a few white dots along the top, 

 and two rows along the sides. Beneath the abdomen is marked with a rufous red 

 es of largish spots on each side, and the venter with a row of yellowish white 

 spots. L'i'per side : Wings black : outer margins ornamented with lour rows of 

 spots ; the outer row rufous, resting on the nervines, and divided ; the three inner, 

 yello\vi>h white ; the innermost row short : beyond the rows there are two or three 

 dashes of red. parallel with the COSta. Hind- marked like the forewings, except the 

 short row of spots is wanting. Biseath, the surface of both pairs is marked with 

 four rows of yellow spots between two of brown, except the inner brown row of the 

 {brewing is replaced bj two large brown subcostal spots : on the hindwings, there is 

 a cluster of brown and yellow spots at the base. It should be noted that the jellow 

 spots of the outer row are all lunules opening outwards. Expanse of wing, 2 inches. 

 This season (1Si>3) this butterfl] is quite common, while in former years it was scarce. 



Msxit.t.a pharos. (Plate xliii, figs. 5 & 6.) 



Bead, body and wings black, marked with numerous red and yellow Bpote. Hindwings 



marked with six orange-colored spots extending across the wing, the concavities 



turned towards the base of the Wing. Out-ide of the-e spots, there i- a row of sia 



