504 
[March 
Argynnis Epithore, Boisduval in lit. 
Male. Expands 1/^ inch. Primaries rounded as in Myrina, not 
angular at apex and excavated on the margin, as in Bellona.^ to which 
last it is most closely allied. 
Upper side pale fulvous at the base; hind margins bordered by a 
slight, interrupted line, with small lunules; otherwise the usual mark¬ 
ings. 
Under side of primaries fulvous, yellowish at apex, with a ferrugi¬ 
nous sub-apical patch. 
Secondaries have an angular sub-mesial band of irregular spots, as 
in Bellona.^ each whitish, sprinkled in the centre with ferruginous ] in 
the cell a round black spot; beyond the band to the margin a slight 
violet tinge, with a submarginal series of round spots and marginal 
lunules. 
Dr. Behr states that he has never known of A. Aglaia being cap¬ 
tured in California. In the Society’s collection are two specimens of 
Aglaia taken by Mr. Wood in the Rocky Mountains, s» that the ex¬ 
istence of this species upon this Continent is no longer doubtful. 
Melit^a Mylitta, Edwards, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila. 1861. 
This species is described by Dr. Behr, in a second very valuable 
paper, read before the Academy, 1863, as M. Colima. At the time of 
writing my description I was inclined to consider certain dark colored 
specimens of Melitma from California, as varieties of Mylitta. Dr. Behr 
has had opportunities for careful and long-continued observation on 
the spot, and has clearly determined two additional species, M. campes- 
tris and M. pratensis, both of which he, as Well as myself, “at first 
considered local varieties” of the other. I am satisfied upon reading 
his descriptions and remarks, and examining a very full series of each 
species kindly sent me by him, that a fourth species, allied to Mylitta., 
and which I also supposed to be a variety, is distinct. I have described 
it below as M. pallida. 
Boisduval in Ann. Soc. Ent. X, in his list of Californian Lepidoptera, 
enumerates Melitsea Pulchella^ without giving its description, referring 
to Drury’s Tharos for it, which he regarded as identical with the Cali¬ 
fornian species, and differing from the Tharos of Cramer. Drury’s spe¬ 
cimens came from New York, as stated in the text, and his figures 
