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states that he has never known of A. Aglaia being captured in Cali- 

 fornia. In the society's collection are two specimens of Aglaia taken 

 by Mr. Wood in the Rocky Mountains, so that the existence of this 

 species, upon this Continent is no longer doubtful." 



The two examples, which Mr. Edwards very curiously mistook for 

 Aglaia, are entirely distinct from that species, and undoubtedly new. 



In size, they approach the largest specimens of Daphnis, and diner 

 very decidedly from any described North American species; their 

 diagnosis follows. 



Argynnis Edwardsii. nov. sp. 



Huh. — California; Pike's Peak, Colorado Territory. (Coll. Tryon 

 Reakirt.) 



Colorado Territory; Washington, D. C. ? (Coll. W. H. Edwards.) 



Rocky Mountains. (Coll. Ent. Soc.) 



Male. — Upper side bright fulvous, a little dusky at the base; outer 

 margin bordered with a narrow, black line, preceded interiorly by a 

 heavy, parallel line, the nervules between and sometimes the whole 

 enclosed space being black. Both wings marked and spotted with 

 black, nearly similar to Daphnis and the allied species; the markings 

 being however, very clear, distinct and slender; the subtnarginal lance- 

 olated spots are nearly always connected with the marginal band, sepa- 

 rating a series of lighter colored spots from the ground color; a small 

 black sagittate mark in the upper part of the medio-posterior inter- 

 space, the transverse median black bar of which is always curved in- 

 wardly. 



Secondaries present a series of pale, discal spots, analagous to those 

 of Callippe, although less strongly marked; a mark in the lower part 

 of the cell, resembling an S, with the lower limb so much shortened, 

 that it is separated from the body of the letter, only by the pale vein; 

 within the cell, and above the S, a large, isolated, rounded, black dot, 

 alwavs prominent in the female, sometimes obsolete in the male; fringe 

 whitish-yellow, cut with black at the extremities of the nervules. Ex- 

 panse, 2.75 — 3 inches. 



Under side, base and inner margin of the primaries, bright red ful- 

 vous — central part of costa, pale fawn — towards the apex, greenish-buff; 

 a submarginal row of from six to eight silver triangles, running from 

 the COSta; behind these a short parallel row of five silver spots ; the 

 first, triangular; the second, large, obovate; the third, round; the 

 fourth and fifth, minute — these last impinging upon the upper two of 

 the submesial series of rounded, black dots. 



PKO IBEDINGS ENT. SOC. I'HILAI). JUNE, 1SG6. 



