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Zela
Butterfly.-The upper side of both sexes is delineated in the plate. On the under side the wings are pale red, marked with a few black spots, respresenting on the under side the markings of the upper side. Of these, the spots of the median and submarginal bands are most conspicuous. Expanse, 1.00-1.35 inch.
(a) Lemonias zela, Butler, var. cleis, Edwards, Plate XXVIII, Fig. 19, male; Fig. 20, female (Cleis).
The pale variety, cleis, is sufficiently well respresented in our plate to need no description. On the under side it is like L. zeal.
The species occurs in Arizona and Mexico.