THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 209 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES OF NORTH AMERICAN 



BUTTERFLIES. 



by \v. h. kdwards, coalburgh, w. va. 



Argynnis Lais. 



Male. — Expands 2 inches. 



L'pper side uniform bright red fulYous, slightly brown about bases of 

 wings ; the black markings all delicate ; both wings bordered by a double 

 line. 



Under side of primaries pale cinnamon-red, buff in upper outer part 

 of cell and from costa to first median nervule ; a brown patch at apex 

 and another before apex, on which are two silver spots ; the upper sub- 

 marginal spots silvered. Secondaries have the area from base to outside 

 second row of spots yellow, mottled with dark brown : the belt beyond 

 sarne spots clear yellow, the margin dark brown ; all the spots well sil- 

 vered, rather small, those of the discal and second rows slightly edged on 

 upper side by black. 



Female. — Expands 2.2 inch. 



Upper side dull fulvous, the bases much obscured ; the hind margins 

 bordered by heavy lines, which are confluent on apical half of primaries ; 

 all the markings heavier than in the male. Under side of primaries cin- 

 namon-red, the apical area yellow-buff, quite to hind margin, to the exclu- 

 sion of the brown patches ; the silver spots reduced. Secondaries yellow- 

 buff less mottled brown, the marginal border nearly same buff, very 

 little obscured ; the spots of both rows bordering on the belt without dark 

 edging, so the belt is unusually wide. 



From several examples, male and female, taken at Red Deer River, by 

 Captain Gamble Geddes. 



This species is size o{ Atlantis and would stand between that and 

 Aphrodite. 



Melit.^a Chara. 



Male. — Expands 1.15 inch. 



Shape of M. Perse, and belongs to same group. Upper side yellow- 

 fulvous, reticulated with black, as in Perse ; the hind margins and apical 

 area of primaries black ; the fulvous extra-discal band on same wing yel- 

 low-white next costal margin ; fringes black, white at the tips of the ner- 

 vules. of secondaries with a few black hairs only at the tii)s of the nervules. 



