AMERICAN LEPIDOPTERA. 189 



Descriptions of new North American DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 

 BY WM. II. EDWARDS. 



1. PiEiiis Calyce. I 8. TiiECLA Dryope. 



2. AuGYxxis BiscHOFFii. | 9. Lyc.ena Mi.ntha. 



3. Memt.ka Sterope. 



4. ^riOI.IT.KA TlIEKLA. 



5. Eresia Pu.vctata. 



6. ClIIONOBAS Stretchii. 



7. Satvrus Gabbii. 



10. Lyc.hna Ftlla. 



11. Lemonias Pai-merii. 



12. Syrichtus Petreius. 



13. CYCLOPinEs Skaua. 



14. IIesperia Minima. 



PiERis Calyce, n. sp. 



Male. — Expands 1.7 inch. Upper side white with a sHp^ht yellow 

 tinge ; the base and costa of primaries and the base of secondaries, as 

 well as nearly one-third the wing along median ncrvure to abdominal 

 margin, densely sprinkled with black scales ; on arc of primaries, a 

 large, rhomboidal, black spot not reaching the costal edge ; hind mar- 

 gin bordered by a series of serrated black spots, obsolete next inner an- 

 gle, preceded by a curved black band of irregular width, and enclosing 

 a series of serrated white spots. Under side of primaries suffused 

 with yellowish green on outer limb ; marked as above, the discal spot 

 being replaced by greenish black, and the marginal spots by yellowish 

 green, except that part of the curved band which lies in the upper and 

 lower median interspaces, which is black. 



Secondaries have the nervures throughout broadly bordered with 

 dark yellow-green, so as nearly to cover the entire surface, leaving 

 only narrow yellow stripes between the nervules, one in cell and an- 

 other reaching from ba.se to costal edge. 



Body above covered with blue grey hairs ; beneath greenish yellow ; 

 palpi yellowish tipped with black ; antennae white annulated with 

 black; club black tipped with ferruginous. 



From Nevada ; in the collection of Henry Edwards, Esq. 



Allied to Sisj/tnbri, Bois., and Vernalls, Edwards, but readily dis- 

 tinguished from either by the extent of the black markings on prima- 

 ries and the extent and intensity of the green shade of secondaries. 

 ArGYNNIS BiSCHOFFlI, n. sp. 

 Primaries broad; costa slightly arched; hind margin unusually convex. 



Male. — l^xpands 1.8 inch. Upper side dull fulvous, the base of 

 primaries and the base and abdominal half of secondaries brown ; pri- 

 maries have the submarginal lunules and marginal band closely con- 

 nected so as to form a broad black border, within which are eight ful- 

 vous spots from inner angle to apex ; other markings as in the allied 

 species, but delicate. Secondaries have a narrow black border on 



trans, amer. est. soc. (25) novemdek, 1870. 



