C|e Canabian (^ntomologbt. 



VOL. XVIII. LONDON, APRIL, iS86. No. 4 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF BUTTERFLIES FOUND 



IN THE UNITED STATES. 



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



I. Argynnis Semiramis. 



Male. — Expands about 2.3 inches. 



Upper side bright fulvous, very Httle obscured at base ; the black 

 markings much as in Adimite, that is, slight on primaries, and still more 

 so on secondaries, the spots on disk and to base being scarcely more than 

 streaks. 



Under side of primaries cinnamon-red at base and along inner margin 

 to median, the upper two median interspaces more or less buff in middle ; 

 this red also crosses basal half of cell, and borders median to the arc ; the 

 remainder of cell and the discoidal and costal interspaces buff; a brown 

 sub-apical patch, and hind margin brown ; the sub-marginal crescents 

 brown, and near apex lost in the ground color, from upper branch of 

 median containing imperfectly silvered spots, the others without silver ; 

 the two spots on the patch well silvered. 



Secondaries ferruginous-brown from base to second row of spots, mot- 

 tled with a lighter shade ; in some examples there is more of the light, the 

 deepest color being in and above cell ; the band between the two outer 

 rows of spots quite clear, in color brownish buff; all the spots well sil- 

 vered ; those of marginal row long and narrow, of second row mostly 

 large ; so also of third row ; all of these two rows edged slightly on basal 

 side with black. 



Body above concolored with wings, the thorax somewhat brown, 

 beneath yellow-buff throughout ; legs same, the upper sides reddish ; 

 palpi yellowish, red in front and at tip ; antennae black above, ferruginous 

 below ; club black, ferruginous at tip. 



Female. — Expands about 3.7 inches. 



Upper side nearly same color as in male, the markings of same char- 

 acter, sometimes almost obliterated on disks of secondaries. Under side 



