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MELAPORPHYRIA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
dobla. 
edwardsi. 
villosa. 
sexata. 
subatra. 
persimilis. 
triolata. 
dubitans. 
perminuta. 
sueta. 
californioa. 
aetheria. 
honesta. 
immortua. 
M. dobla Sm. (47 h). The blackish-brown forewing is irregularly strewn with whitish, the median 
area whitish, towards the hind-margin blackened; transverse lines whitish, the posterior line S-shaped, the 
maculae blackish, the most distinct the large almost quadrangular reniform macula. Hindwing black with 
white fringes. California, in April. 
M. edwardsi Sm. (47 h) has dingy yellowish-reddish forewings powdered with smoke-brown, in the 
basal and subterminal areas of a purer brown, of the same colour is the undulate line which is acute-angled 
behind the cell; the light transverse lines are bordered with blackish-brown, the posterior line being almost 
rectangularly flawed; maculae very large, dull brown. Hindwing yellowish-red with a black median spot and 
marginal band, in the latter analwards with a yellowish-red line. Yellowstone Park. 
M. villosa Grt. (= pauxillus Grt.) (47 h) is on the black fore wing powdered with grey and red-brown, 
in the marginal area greyer, with lighter transverse lines and a whitish cellular spot behind the antemedian 
line in the <J, in the $ with a Y-shaped band behind it. Hindwing black with 3 yellowish-white spots which 
are larger in the §. Colorado, California. — f. sexata Sm. (47 i), from Manitoba, is smaller, stouter, with 
almost cpiite black hindwings on which a yellowish-red median band is indistinctly marked. 
M. subatra Sm. (47 i) is hued with dark carmine on the smoky brown or blackish forewing, in the 
median area excepting the margins yellowish or whitish, enclosing a very large blackish reniform macula ; the 
distinct undulate line is yellowish. Hindwing black with a bronze lustre, in the yellowish or whitish median 
band with a large black discal spot. Washington, Montana. 
M. persimilis Grt. (= flavidenta Sm.) (47 i). Forewing yellowish, basally and subterminally carmine 
powdered with olive, the anterior transverse line with a pointed tooth proximad in the cell; beneath the large 
maculae of a carmine tint the median area is pow r dered with olive. Hindwing black with olive-yellow fringes 
and a yellowish median band which is divided into 2 spots by the large black discal spot. Utah, in July. 
M. triolata Sm. (47 i). Forewing dull smoky brown, the median area and undulate line yellowish, 
the large maculae smoky brown, the reniform macula strangulated. Hindwing black with a yellow disc enclosing 
a large black spot. California. 
M. dubitans Tepp. (47 i) resembles triolata, but it is larger and paler, the ground-colour more yellowish, 
the transverse lines and the median area whitish; maculae smaller, of a conspicuous grey finely surrounded 
by blackish in the light median area, the reniform macula being produced proximad on the median. Hind¬ 
wing black with a large yellow discal spot enclosing a black spot. Nevada. 
M, perminuta Echo. (47 c) is strewn with white on the dark brown forewing, with a Y-shaped 
whitish median band and rather indistinct whitish transverse lines. Hindwing black with 2 white spots. Cali¬ 
fornia, Sierra Nevada. 
M. sueta Grt. (47 i). Forewing black strewn with grey and purple red scales, with a Y-shaped whitish 
median area. Hindwing black with larger white spots than in the very similar perminuta. Colorado. — f. cali- 
fornica Grt. is somewhat smaller, more intensely powdered with purple red and less with grey, the Y-shaped 
median area of a somewhat more yellowish tint. Hinclwing more extensively black. California. 
M. aetheria B. & McD. (47 i) is allied to sueta, but the ground-colour is more olive-green, as far 
as the subterminal line suffused with purple, with a blue costal-marginal spot near the base and with bluish 
transverse lines; in the light yellowish median area is the large quadrangular purple-tinted reniform macula. 
Hindwing black with a yellow median band which is strangulated or interrupted in the middle. Arizona. 
M. honesta Grt. (= kasloa Sm.) (47 k) differs from the preceding ones in the much more extensively 
yellowish-white spotted median area, the undulate line being replaced by a white macular band, the fringes 
being speckled white. The white band of the hind wing is much broader. Brit. Columbia, Oregon. 
5. Genus: Melaporpliyria Grt. 
Very similar to the preceding genera and likewise with small bean-shaped eyes, separated by short 
porrect palpi and a plain rounded frontal projection without a horny plate below it. The anterior tarsi are 
not so short and broad, but more slender, laterally spined with a long slender horny sting inside and a 
shoi’ter one outside at the end. Type: M. immortua Grt. 
M. immortua Grt. (47 k) has blackish forewings powdered with purple excepting the hind-margin 
and the yellowish-brown external area, with grey veins as far as the undulate line; between the light grey 
transverse lines there is a blackish spot at the cell-end. Hindwing yellowish-brown, two postmedian transverse 
bands and the basal half blackish. New York to New Mexico. 
