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Argynnis Eurjiiosne, n. sp. 



Primaries slightly arched, rounded apically ; hind margin convex. 

 Male. — Expands from 1.7 to 2 inches. Upper side uniform yellow 

 fulvous, very little dusky at base ; hind margins of both wings edged 

 by a common conspicuous black band formed by the usual parallel 

 lines and the lunules anterior, all of which are confluent, the lunules 

 enclosing fulvous spots ; the rounded spots next preceding small ; 

 across the disk of each wiug a delicate confluent zigzag band, before 

 which, on primaries, are the usual cellular inscriptions; at the base of 

 lower median interspace a black mark and a sagittate spot below ; on 

 cell of secondaries a spot like the letter C inverted ; fringes luteous, on 

 primaries only cut with black at tips of nervules. Under side of pri- 

 maries pale buff, the disk and a narrow space along the nervules pale 

 ferruginous ; the three upper or sub-apical spots silvered as well as the 

 five upper marginal spots. 



Secondaries yellow buff throughout, but from base to second row of 

 spots mottled with pale ferruginous and olivaceous, the latter, in fresh 

 specimens often a decided green ; the band between the two outer rows 

 of the spots broad, yellow-buff and immaculate, except that on the 

 upper edge are olivaceous or green shadows projected from the silver 

 spots ; the spots of the outer row are triangular, those of the second 

 long oval, the 1st and 5th equal and the 2nd, 3rd and 6th narrower 

 than the 1st but equally long, the 4th small, the 7th lunate, all deli- 

 cately edged by black above ; in the third row are three large spots, 

 the 1st and 3rd luuular,the 2nd subquadrate, all edged with black above 

 in cell a round spot in black ring ; a long oval in the interspace below 

 and a dash of silver at base of cell and also of subcostal interspace ; 

 shoulder and abdominal margin well silvered. 



Body above black covered with dark fulvous hairs ; beneath buff; 

 legs buff; palpi buff", fulvous above at tip; antennae black anuulated 

 with greyish above, fulvous below ; club black tipped with bright ful- 

 vous. 



Female. — Expands 2 inches; Color paler, the sub-margiual spots 

 whitish, the black marginal band broader and all the markings heavier. 



This pretty species I have known for some years and had supposed 

 it to be Astarte, Doubleday. But Mr. A. Gr. Butler, to whom I sent a 

 specimen for comparison with the type of Astarte in the British Mu- 

 seum Collection, writes me that it is not that species, which, he adds, 

 resembles rather a Melit?ea in the character of its markings on the un- 

 der side. Mr. Mead fouud the species common throughout Colorado, fly- 

 ing among the grasses and along the streams, frequently alighting and 



