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Under side of the secondaries fulvous, with white spots towards 

 the base ; then a median, transverse, irregular band, and finally 

 marginal lunules of the same color. These last are separated from 

 the transverse band by a series of blackish points corresponding 

 to those of the upper side. 



Fringe of all the wings blackish, intersected by white. 



Body and antennce as in the analogous species. 



Larva yellow, with spines and three longitudinal rays, blackish. 



Head black, as well as the scaly feet and abdomen on under side; 

 other feet yellow. 



Chrysalis ash-gray, with some clearer spaces ; the small dorsal 



tubercles nearly white. 



Southern States. — Expands one and three-eighths inch. 



Boisd. 



3. M. tharos Cram. M. tharossa Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 289. Figured 



in Cram. pi. 169. Drury, I, pi. 21. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 47, p. 170. 



Wings fulvous, with black wavy lines, more or less wide, often 

 confluent or interlaced. A wide black border on the outer edge, 

 a little sinuous within, marked on the primaries with a fulvous 

 yellow spot, and divided on the secondaries by a regular sinuous 

 line of grayish, preceded by a row of black ocular dots. 



The upper edge of primaries black ; from which, at the end of 

 the discoidal cellule, there proceeds a black streak, which loses 

 itself in the sinuous lines. 



Under side of the primaries fulvous, with ferruginous wavy lines, 

 very fine and indistinct. The border is more brown, mingled with 

 the fulvous and marked with a yellow spot larger than that on the 

 upper side. 



The under side of the secondaries is ochre yellow, with a large 

 number of wavy, brown ferruginous lines ; a brown border, touch- 

 ing neither the anal nor external angle, marked by a yellow crescent. 

 This border is preceded by a row of small brown dots, correspond- 

 ing to those on the upper side. 



Body black above, yellowish below. 



United States. — Expands an inch and an eighth. 



Boisd. 



4. M. editha Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. 2me ser. X, 305. 



Boisduval says, it is possible that this species is the same which 

 Doubled'ay and Hewitson have figured in pi. 23 of their work as 



