4. Melitæ Minuta Edw.—Figured in Mead's Report on Butterflies of Colorado. Syn. Arachne Edw.

Chrysalis.–Length .54 inch ; cylindrical; head case short, narrow, rounded at vertices, the sides sloping; mesonotum rounded, not prominent, followed by a shallow depression; the abdomen large, and offering several rows of short conical tubercles; color yellow-white or buff, marked with black; top of head case black, the antennæ cases same; mesonotum with two crescent spots on each side; on the wing case a central patch and dark border ; the segments of abdomen edged with black on dorsal side; a ventral longitudinal stripe and one on either side; the tubercles black at summit, orange at base.