AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 13 



Descriptions of New Species of DIURNAL. L-ICPIDOP- 

 TERA found in North America. 



BY W. H. EDWARDS. 



-Argynnis Rhodope, n. sp. 



Primaries of median width, moderately arched, straight on hind 

 margin. 



Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. Upper side deep red fulvous, the basal 

 portion of both wings up tn the mesial band dark brown ; hind margins 

 bordered by two heavy parallel black lines, which enclose fulvous spaces 

 between the nervules ; on primaries these lines are frequently conflu- 

 ent, then forming a broad band ; the submarginal black spots lunular 

 confluent, resting on the marginal lines throughout and enclosing sub- 

 ovate fulvous spots; the other markings on primaries as in allied 

 species, but heavy, very much as in A. Mont kola ; secondaries have 

 submarginal black spots equal in size to those on primaries ; the mesial 

 band narrow, confluent; the black discal spot oval, with a narrow, deep, 

 fulvous sinus; beyond to base the ground is black in the cell and for 

 some distance on either side of cell, covered by partially brown scales, 

 and on this, next anterior to the mesial band, in the upper discoidal 

 interspace, is a long fulvous spot, and on the sub-costal interspace a 

 second, smallerj; fringes alternately luteous and black, the black pre- 

 vailing on primaries. 



Under side of primaries deep red along the whole hind margin 

 quite up to the line of rounded spots; sometimes the basal portion 

 up to the mesial band is of same hue, but in other cases it is paler; 

 the sub-costal and discoidal interspaces as far as the red marginal 

 space being yellow, as is also the posterior part of cell ; the sub-mar- 

 ginal black spots diffuse, the lower ones produced nearly to the rounded 

 spots ; the enclosed spots small, triangular, rather lunular next inner 

 angle, and the upper five or six either yellow with a few silver scales, 

 or well silvered ; on costal margin three sub-apical spots, either yellow 

 or silvered. 



Secondaries uniform deep red from base to margin, except that 

 sometimes there is a narrow pale space between the two outer rows of 

 spots, as of a yellow sub-color, washed with red; in some cases the 

 middle of the wing, next anterior to the second row of spots, is much 

 covered with black ; the marginal spots well silvered, narrow, elongate, 

 lunular posteriorly, the others sub-ovate ; the spots of the second row 

 are nearly equal in size, excepting the fourth, which is minute; the 

 first three, the fifth and sixth, sub-quadrate, the seventh a paral- 



