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from June to July, and is found from Xew England to 

 Montana^ and in Colorado. 

 It feeds on violets. 



44. ARGYXNIS MOXTINUS, Scud. 



Expanse of wings 1.75 inches. 



Upper surface rich reddish fulvous, much the color of 

 A. Bellona, marked with the usual zigzag line beyond 

 the middle and the row of round black spots ; the sub- 

 marginal row of black lunules and the black terminal 

 edge somewhat suffused on the fore wings, so that there 

 is but little clear fulvous between the edge and the 

 lunules. The cell of the fore wings is marked with four 

 marks, three black bars almost straight, and an elon- 

 gate : the latter is the second from the base, and may 

 be considered as formed of two bars, making the number 

 five, as in other species. Below the cell there is an open 

 V, the point turned outward. The basal portion of both 

 wings is suffused with black, extending out somewhat 

 along the posterior and internal margins. 



The under side of the hind wings and the apical por- 

 tion of the fore wings are deep cinnamon-red, the rest is 

 ochraceous fulvous, the markings of the fore wings faintly 

 repeated. Hind wings with the median broken line re- 

 peated less distinctly than above, obsolete opposite the 

 cell, and partially so between this and the costa. Costa 

 black, more or less bordered within by ochre scales. In 

 place of the round spots of the upper side there is a series 

 of ferruginous spots, some indistinct and others with a 

 few black scales. Between this and the median line is a 

 broken line or shade of salmon scales, not very clear, 

 and outside this the round spots are patches of ochre 



