52 NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



104. ARGYNNIS NOKOMIS Edw. 



Ei>wakd's Silver-spot. 

 Size, large. Sexes, utterly different above. Male, bright reddish 

 orange, with outer border brighter than in type, divided, and the pattern 

 of fore wing as in type, with base of wing, dusky. Hind wings, with 

 sj)ottings as in Fig. 23, a, the third row of spots being separate, and 

 basal third of wing dusky. Beneath, ocherous yellow, crimson lake on 

 lower margin, and base of fore wing marked as above, but with silver 

 spottings in apex. Hind wings, with wide space between first and sec- 

 ond row of silver spots, the latter having a row of dusky spots outside 

 them, and fewer silver spots within, about seven. Female, yellowish 

 above, brownish at base of wings, and with the other markings of the 

 male in a much fused and enlarged pattern. Fore wings, tinged with 

 red. Beneath, similar to the male. Expands, 3.40 to 3. GO. Habitat, 

 Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. 



105. ARGYNNIS NITOCRIS Edw. 



Strecker's Argynnis. 

 Sexes, unlike. Size, large. Male, above, reddish orange with ba- 

 sal half of wings obscured with dusky, with the usual wing pattern of 

 markings, but the first three or four spots in outer row are fused and 

 so rest on the outer line. The hind wings are marked much as in A. 

 nokomis. Beneath, the fore wings are bright cinnamon-red, with the 

 apex ocherous yellow, and a brown patch within the line of crescentic 

 spots near apex, that contain three silver spots, while there are three or 

 or four silver spots in the first lunules, with other markings repeated. 

 Hind wings, bright ferrugineous, as in A. aphrodite, in ground color. 

 First row of silver spots, narrower than in aphrodite and edged inwardly 

 with ferrugineous. In the second row, the seven spots are rather round; 

 the first, second, and sixth, are about equal in size ; third and fifth, long 

 oval ; seventh, semi-lunate, all heavily margined with black within. In 

 the third row, the first and thii-d are sub lunate, ond the second, round, 

 edged with black, and in the cell, is a round spot, and an oval one below 

 it, both ringed with black. Expands, 3.00. Habitat, Southern Arizo- 

 na to Nevada. 



106. ARGYNNIS LETO Beiiu. 

 Dusky Silver-wing. 

 Size, form, and color above, most like those of A. cybele, but differs 

 in having the sub-marginal row of crescents Avidcr on upper side of hind 



