36 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
As their food plants are of little or no value, we pay but 
little attention to them save as objects of scientific interest 
or curiosity. 
Sub-Family—N Y MPHALIN 4. 
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9. ARGYNNIS IDALIA, Drury. 
Ar-gyn'-nis i-da’-li-a. 
Expanse of wings, from three and a half to four inches. 
Upper side of the wings, tawny orange red, with a series 
of four sinuous black bars across the cell, the outer one 
being double; an irregular black line composed of curved 
bars crosses the middle of the wing beyond which is a row 
of small round spots parallel to the outer border. The costal 
edge and outer border are black, and in the female there is a 
row of white spots in the black outer border, and a few 
white dashes towards the apex. 
The hind wings are bluish black with a rusty tinge on the 
base, and arow of cream colored spots across the middle, 
and another along the outer border, which is cream colored 
in the female, but orange red in the male. 
Under side of the fore wings marked as above, but slightly 
paler. Under side of the hind wings, dull brown with three 
rows of pearly white spots across them, one along the outer 
border, the second just outside of the middle, and the third, 
inside of the middle of the wing. There are also four spots 
near the base, and the inner edges are marked with the 
same color. 
Body black, with yellowish hairs on the thorax. 
The larva of this insect feeds on violets and pansies. 
The egg is in the form of an irregular truncated cene with 
the top slightly depressed, marked with 18 vertical, wavy 
