NYMPHALID/E. 289 



Family NYMPHALID^. Nymphalidans. 



CLXXIX. Genus MELITiEA. Fab. 



(404) 1. * Melit^ea Selenis. Crescent Melitcea. 



Melitae Tharos. Drury. Illustr. ii, t. lxxi, f 5, 6? 



M. ( Selenis J alia integerrimis : primoribus supra nigro-fuscis fulvo maculatis el subfasciatis, subtus fulvis nigro et pallida 

 maculatis ; secundariis supra nigris fulvo maculatis, macula magna discoidali irregulari fulvo ; subtus pallidis fulvo 

 subfasciatis et nebulosis ; lunula marginali albida. 



Crescent Meliteea, wings very entire ; primaries above black-brown, spotted and partially banded with tawny ; underneath 

 tawny, with black and pallid spots ; secondaries above black spotted with tawny, with n large discoidal irregular 

 orange-tawny spot; underneath pallid, clouded and partially banded with tawny, with a whitish marginal 

 crescent. 



Expansion of the wings 1 inch and 5 lines. 



Taken in North America. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Antennae black, annulated with white ; knob black, compressed : primary wings dark-brown, spot- 

 ted, and partially banded, with fulvous deeper or paler, viz. a series of five irregular spots, the mesal 

 one the largest and palest; a transverse discoidal angular forked band, and a pale marginal crescent; 

 the margin is marked with very indistinct whitish crescents : secondaries above brown, with a large 

 discoidal tawny-orange spot, in which anteriorly two areas are formed by confluent brown lines ; and 

 posteriorly there is a series of round black spots, those nearest the anal angle being the largest ; in 

 the brown margin are five whitish crescents, three of which are evanescent ; the two nearest the 

 above angles being most conspicuous. The underside of the primaries is tawny-orange with paler 

 spots at the apex of the wing; next the interior margin is a sesquialterous black spot; next the 

 anterior is an abbreviate macular band of the same colour, consisting of four black spots ; and adjoin- 

 ing the anal angle is an angular, abbreviated, black band ; parallel with the posterior margin is an 

 indented orange line. The underside of the secondaries is tawny, at the base reticulated and 

 clouded by darker lines and spots ; the apex also is clouded, and at the angles reticulated ; parallel 

 with the posterior margin is a series of brownish-black spots ; at the margin, between the fifth and 

 sixth nervures, is a whitish crescent, two or three pale evanescent ones are observable also near the 

 posterior or external angle. 



CLXXX. Genus ARGYNNIS. Fab. 



(405) 1. Argynnis Cybele. Cybele Argynnis. 



Argynnis. Fahr. Syst. Glossat. in Illig. Mag. 

 Papilio Cybele. Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 145, 445. 

 Daphnis. Cram. Pap. v, t. 57, f. E. F. 



Expansion of the wings 3 inches. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



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