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[289.] FAMILY NYMPHALID.E. 



404- MelitjEA sklknis Kirby - Taken in North America. [Is our 

 common M. iharos7\ 



405. Argynnis cybele Fabr. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 

 [Common in Canada ; for description and figures, and for a full account 

 of the differences that distinguish this species from A. aplirodite, No. 407, 

 see Edwards' " Butterflies of N. America," Part i.] 



[290.] 406. Argynnis myrina Fabr. — Taken in Canada by Dr. 

 Bigsby. [Quite common in Canada and well-known to collectors.] 



407. Argynnis aphrodite Fabr. — Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 

 [Quite common ; see our note on A. cybele above.] 



[291.] 408. Argynnis kreya Esper. — Expansion of the wings 1 y? 

 inches. Three specimens taken near Cumberland-house, Lat. 54 . 



Stalk of the antennae yellow with a large compressed dark-brown knob, 

 red underneath at the base and tip ; wings tawny, dark-brown at the base, 

 with a narrow black band occupying the posterior margin, followed by a 

 series of black arrow-headed spots ; next to which in the primaries is a 

 zigzag angular discoidal black band, and at the anterior margin five trans- 

 verse spots of the same colour ; the underside of these wings is tawny 

 variegated with black and white spots and lines ; the secondaries are 

 underneath reddish-brown variegated with white and yellow spots and 

 bands, with a discoidal arrow-headed white spot in the centre ; the fringe 

 of the wings is alternately white and yellow. 



[A decidedly northern insect ; has been taken in Labrador.] 



[292.] FAMILY VANESSID.E. 



409. Vanessa C-argenteum Kirby. — Plate hi., figs. 6 and 7. Ex- 

 pansion of the wings 2 inches. A single specimen taken in Lat. 54 . 



• Antennse brown above, pale below ; knob pale at the tip ; wings 

 angular, cut out uito sinuses which are dentated ; primaries above orange- 

 tawny, with five black round spots forming a right-angled triangle with 

 each other ; two triangular costal bars and posterior margin black ; above 

 the black marginal band is a series of paler tawny triangular spots ; under- 

 neath the wings are veined, marbled and clouded with black, brown, and 

 cinereous ; the primaries have a very broad paler band near the margin ; 



