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edged with white; there is also a sub-margnial row of points and small 
brown lunules, sometimes obsolete. 
From Mackenzie’s River, by Mrs. Ross. 
Melit^a Texana, nov. sp. 
Male. Expands ly^^ inch. Upper side blackish brown, mottled 
with fulvous at the base of the wings, and sprinkled with small white 
spots; these form, on primaries, an interrupted sub-marginal line, and 
an abbreviated line of three spots from the costa, besides five or six 
others irregularly placed ] on secondaries, a bent line across the disk and 
a sub-marginal row of faint crescents ] fringe blackish, except in the 
emarginations, where it is white. 
Underside : primaries ochrey-yellow next the base, and beyond, dark 
brown; the apex and hind margin paler brown ) a sub-marginal row of 
crescents; the white spots re-appear of larger size. 
Secondaries buff next the base, reticulated with reddish-brown lines; 
a white band crosses the disk corresponding to the spots on upper side; 
beyond to margin clouded with brown, with a row of crescents, the 
third from the anal angle largest and whitish, all surmounted by black¬ 
ish spots. 
Texas. 
Anthocaris Ausonoides, Boisduval: mentioned in description of 
A. Sara. Ann. Soc. Ent., X. p.''286. 2d Ser. 
Male. Expands ly% inch. Upper side white; primaries have the 
apex blackish, enclosing a white patch on the costa and two or three 
white rays along the ends of the nervules; costa slightly sprinkled 
with black; a black, narrow, sinuous spot on the arc ; fringe alternate 
white and black. 
Secondaries have a mottled appearance from their transparency; 
fringe white with black points at the ends of the nervules. 
Under side: primaries as above, except that the apex is faintly clouded 
with dull green ; secondaries mottled with dull green disposed in three 
jagged, transverse bands and a demi-band on the inner side between 
the marginal and central; the marginal band deeply scolloped; the 
bands more or less connected. 
Female. A little larger, resembles the male. 
