BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 4] 
wing is a row of about four large silvery white spots; and 
on the base of the wing are about five more of the same 
color. 
This species feeds on wild violets, and is common in Maine. 
The eggs are pale green, somewhat acorn- 
shaped, with the top cut off, and marked with 
about fourteen vertical ridges with fine cross 
lines between them. The young larve are about 
one-twelfth of an inch long, of a pale green color 
with brownish black head. Brown patches nearly pig. 15, Rge of 
cover the fifth, seventh, ninth and eleventh seg- Argynnis myrina. 
ments. Black hairs arise from tubercles on all pi 
the segments, and curve forward. They molt four times be- 
fore reaching maturity, when they are one inch long, ashy 
brown, mottled with velvety black, with six rows of fleshy 
spines beset with black bristles; those on the second seg- 
ment three and one-half times as long as any others, and 
projected forward. Legs and feet, black; head, bronze col- 
ored. Pupa, three-fifths of an inch long, suspended by the 
tail; light brown streaked with darker, and armed with two 
rows of sharp, conical tubercles on the back. The perfect 
insect flies from the last of June to the middle of July. 
14. -ARGYNNIS BELLONA, F. 
Ar-gyn'-nis bel-lo’-na. 
Expanse of wings, about one and seven-eighths of an inch. 
Upper surface of the wings fulvous or reddish yellow, 
marked with black, after the general pattern of the other 
species of this genus. Two rows of black spots on the outer 
margin preceded by another a little distance within, while the 
basal half of the wings is marked with black dashes running 
together, more or less. 
Under side of the fore wings marked like the upper side, 
except the outer part, which, like the under side of the hind 
wings, is brownish, and glossed with purplish white, with 
darker spots and irregular lines. 
