MTJRNAL LEPlDOMEllA* 13 



"Male. — Wings above sulphur-yellow, unspotted, with narrow marginal mealy 

 band; below sulphur-yellow ; front wings with paler internal area; an irregular 

 rosy-centred ring-spot at end of cell, and a deeply bisinuate series of eight brown 

 spots beyond it; hind wings with two silver-centred spots at end of cell, encircled 

 by an irregular discal series of tea or eleven red-brown scale-spots, sometim^es 

 obsolete. 



Female. — Wings above sulphur-yellow, with orange margin, the nervures termi- 

 nating in black spots; front wings with large black disco-cellular spots, and some- 

 times with an indistinct series of discal spots towards apex ; below golden-yellow, 

 the margins deeper colored; front wings with a large geminate silver-centred 

 ring-spot; the discal spots as in % but redder; hind wings with two silver-centred 

 ring-spots placed obliquely upon a squamose rusty band at end of cell, and en- 

 circled by a discal series of irregular reddish markings, several reddish spots 

 at base." 



This species is common over the South and West, and is sometimes 

 taken on Long Island, or further up the coast. It is occasional at 

 Coalburgh, West Virginia ; and in season of 1880 there were an unusual 

 number seen there. 



5. Hersilia. This species Mr. Strecker gives as synonymous with 

 Argante, Fab. ; Mr. Butler as follows : 



Jlersilia, Cramer, 2, pi. 173. 



% Larra, Fabr., Ent. Syst. Suppl. p. 428. 

 9 Cipris, Cramer, (nee Fab.), 2, pi. 99. 

 9 Oipn's, Hiibner Samml., 2, pi. "131. 

 Localities: — "Brazil; Cayenne; Nicaragua;" etc., but no further 

 North ; and it is added : " This very beautiful species was for many 

 years confounded with Argon te, the two males being very similar," etc. 

 ■As it is not found in the United States, it is not necessai-y to add further. 



6. Philea. 



S P. Philea, Linn., Syst. Nat. 2, 764 



9 P. Arii-ye, Cramer, 1, pi. 94. 



% Maneipium, fugax Argante, Hiibner Samml., 1, pi, 145, 



"Male. — Wings above light sulphur-yellow; front wings with the margin very 

 slenderly blackish, expanded into points at the termination of the nervures; 

 an elongate oblique orange patch crossing discoidal oell : hind wings with external 

 ■area including centre of disk light orange, the mealy marginal border slightly paler ; 

 below golden-yellow ; front wings with internal area broadly sulphur-yellow ; two 

 irregular silver-centred brown disco-cellular spots and a biangulate series of discal 

 brown spots, most distinct towards costa; hind wings with two brown encircled 

 silver spots at end of cell, and a circular discal series of irregular brown markings 

 completely surrounding them. 



■ Female. — Wings above golden or ochraceous yellow; front wings becoming 

 gradually deeper colored towards outer margin, where it is slightly reddish; 

 a conspicuous spot at end of cell ; a triangulate series of nine discal spots, the apex 

 and sijc marginal spots dark brown, hind wings with external area J-eddish-orange 



