Clie faabian (fetomoiogisl 



VOL. XI. LONDON, ONT., MAY, 1879. No. 5 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 

 BUTTERFLIES ; ALSO, NOTES UPON CERTAIN SPECIES. 



by w. h. edwards, coalburgh, w. va. 



Argynnis Hippolyta. 

 Male.— -Expands 2 inches. 



Upper side fulvous, obscured by brown at bases of wings ; the discal 

 area of each wing lighter than elsewhere ; the black markings rather 

 heavy ; the marginal lines more or less confluent ; the silver spots of 

 second row indicated on upper side by oblong spots of a pale color. 



Under side of primaries pale orange-fulvous at base, and in the P- 

 shaped spot of cell ; also along the branches of median ; rest of wing 

 pale buff, except hind margin and apical area, which are ferruginous ; on 

 the sub-apical patch two silver spots, and the four or five uppermost sub- 

 marginal spots are silvered. 



Secondaries deep ferruginous, very little mottled with buff; hind mar- 

 gin same hue as the disk ; the belt narrow, buff, much dusted with ferru- 

 ginous ; all the spots well silvered ; those of outer row small narrow 

 crescents, with heavy ferruginous edging to upper side ; the spots of 2nd 

 and 3rd rows small, each edged on upper side by a few scales of black ; 

 a round spot in black ring in cell, an oval in ring below cell ; shoulder 

 and inner margin silvered. 



Female. — Expands 2.25 inch. 



More obscured at base, otherwise like male ; the basal area of pri- 

 maries beneath red-fulvous ; secondaries as in male, but the belt is almost 

 lost in ferruginous. 



From 3^1$ received from Mr. G. M. Dodge, and taken in Oregon, but 

 in what exact locality is not known. Another male was received from Mr. 

 Henry Edwards; from Northern California. 



