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MELITJ1A I. 
MELIT^EA CHALCEDON. 1—4. 
Melitxa Chalcedon, (Chal-ce'-don) Boisduval; Doubleday and Hewitson, Gen. Diur. Lep. pi. 23; 
Ann. Ent. Soc. de Fr. 1852. Edwards, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil. 1862. 
Male. Expands about two inches. 
Upper side black spotted with pale ochrey yellow in transverse sinuous bands ; 
the hind margins edged by a series of red spots, sometimes conspicuous, but usually 
small, rather indistinct and occasionally wholly wanting ; the yellow spots vary 
much in individuals, both as to size and form ; but usually the first on sub-mar- 
ginal row of primaries is minute, the second of medium size, bifid on costal mar- 
gin, the spots of the inner branch partially red; the third row somewhat larger 
than the second ; in the cell a compressed bar, a spot near base, and on inner mar- 
gin a third. On secondaries the first two yellow rows are composed of small 
spots, but those of the third are large and elongated; four yellow spots near 
base. 
Under side of primaries bright brick red; the marginal border broad, conco- 
lored, and presenting on its anterior edge a series of deep yellow lunules, those next 
inner angle frequently obsolete ; beyond this a second row of rounded spots, one or 
two patches On costa and sometimes a spot in cell ; a black line on the arc and two 
transverse lines in cell. Secondaries have also a red marginal border, a submarginal 
series of large yellow lunules on a black ground, preceded by a row of rounded deep 
red spots on a black ground, each edged by a delicate yellow border ; across the disk 
a band of large yellow spots, divided by the black lunules and cut unequally at 
either extremity by a transverse black line; next beyond this a red band, ex- 
pandedincell and there enclosing a yellow spot in a black ring; at base of nervures 
four yellow spots, and another on shoulder. 
Body above black, the segments of the abdomen edged with yellow, and to- 
wards the extremity with red; sides of abdomen red, below yellow; thorax yellow; 
legs and palpi red; antennae black above, red below; club black. 
Female. Expands 2.5 inches. 
Primaries broader, more rounded apically; spots larger. 
Mature Larva. Length 1.5 inch. Color black, finely irrorated with white ; 
head black, bilobed, compressed, furnished with simple black spines ; on body, 
from third segment to last, seven rows of thick, many branching spines, the dorsal 
