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wings G. g-argenteum resembles G. interrogationis of Fabricius, a common insect in 
North America. It differs from this, however, in having more dentated margins, and 
in the nearly uniform bright tawny colour of its upper surface. Beneath it is paler 
and more irrorated. It does not appear to be a very common insect, and is doubtless 
confined to the highlands. 
2. Grapta haroldi. 
Grapta haroldii, Dewitz, Mitth. Miinch. ent. Ver. 1877, p. 89, t. 2. f. 67. 
Alis fulvis (secundum figuram) nigro marginatis, anticis costa et basin versus rubro-fuscis, maculis nigris 
notatis. 
Hab. Mexico (Ehrenberg 1). 
The only two examples we know of this insect were obtained by Ehrenberg in 
Mexico, and are now in the Museum at Berlin, where we saw them in 1876. The 
species has since been described and figured by Herr Dewitz. It differs considerably 
from any other member of the genus with which we are acquainted, as will be seen by 
reference to Herr Dewitz’s figure. 
PYRAMEIS, 
Pyrameis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schm, p. 33 (1816) ; Doubleday, Gen. Diurn. Lep. i. p. 202. 
Members of this genus are distributed all over the world, P. cardui having probably 
the widest range of any butterfly. 
In Pyrameis the tegumen has two long lateral spines besides the central one; the 
harpagones are large, projecting beyond the tegumen and inclosing it ; they bear 
three spines on the inner surface, placed rather widely apart. The antenne have 
41 joints, 12 forming a rather abrupt club, the last joint being acute; the palpi 
are slightly hairy, the terminal joint < half the middle joint, which is slightly swollen. 
The front legs of the male are hairy and slightly scaled; coxa =+4 femur + trochanter : 
tibia=femur ; tarsus (two-jointed)=tibia. The costa of the primaries is simply curved ; 
the first and second subcostal branches are thrown off before the end of the cell, the 
third a long way beyond it; the upper discocellular is absent, and the lower atrophied ; 
the precostal nervure of the secondaries is nearly straight, and stands nearly at right 
angles to the costal. 
1. Pyrameis cardui. 
Papilio cardui, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 774°. 
Vanessa cardui, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 17”. 
Pyrameis cardui, Butl. & Druce, P. Z.S. 1874, p. 346°; Strecker, Cat. Butt. N. Am. p. 186%. 
Alis nitide fulvis nigro notatis precipue ad apicem anticarum, macula ultra cellulam tripartita aliisque quatuor 
subapicalibus albis, posticis ocellis submarginalibus quatuor (interdum quinque) cecis; subtus alis diluy- 
tioribus, anticis dimidio proximo rosaceo lavatis, posticis ochraceo-fuscis albo marmoratis, ocellis pupillatis 
totidem ut in pagina superiore. 
Hab. NortH America, except polar regions *.—British Honpuras, Corosal (Roe); 
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