1;1|^ Caiiculiati 



mntoiiiologbt. 



VOL. XXIV. 



LONDON, MAY, 1892. 



No. 5. 



:\IISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON BUTTERFLIES, LARV.^, ETC. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS, COALBURGH, WEST VA. 

 ( Continued from page j6. ) 



2. Argynnis Oweni, n. sp. 



Male — Expands 2.25 inches. 



Upper dull side red-fulvous, not much obscured by brown at base ; the 

 markings rather heavy, the two marginal lines on both wings more or less 

 confluent. Under side of primaries either yellow-buff from base to the 

 row of rounded spots, the nervules being red-brown, or the interspaces 

 are very lightly washed with this colour over the buff ground ; the 

 subapical patch dark brown with a small imperfectly silvered spot ; the 

 five submarginal spots also are of same character ; sometimes the silver 

 is wholly wanting. 



Secondaries dark brown and gray-buff, the brown prevailing on the 

 disk, so that the second row of spots stand on a clear brown ground ; 

 but above this to base the buff prevails, especially along the third row 

 of spots, and below the cell ; but occasionally the mottled surface extends 

 quite to the belt ; the belt red-buff, and very narrow, being much 

 encroached on by the dark brown (almost black-brown) projections from 

 the discal area, and by the wide brown edging of the submarginal spots ; 

 these spots are small, semi-oval ; those of the second rov/ small, sub-oval j 

 the outer row is generally well silvered, but all the others are imperfectly 

 so in most cases, but occasionally one is well silvered throughout, or the 

 outer two rows may be well and the remainder imperfectly silvered. 



Female. — Expands 2.4 inches. 



The fulvous mottled with yellowish on both wings outside the mesial 

 band, on secondaries the yellow corresponding with the second row of 

 silver spots ; also in the cell of primaries the hue is yellow fulvous ; the 

 black markings all very heavy ; the marginal lines nearly confluent 

 throughout. Secondaries as in the male, except that the basal colour is 



