2 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



was not taken in the region from which these came. Art on is may be 

 distinguished by the absence of silver and obHterated marginal spots 

 on both wings. 



Argynnis Liiliana, II. Edw., Proc. Cat. Acad. Sci. Dec. 1876. 



Mr. Edwards described this species with some hesitation, but it is un- 

 doubtedly a good species. During the last three years Mr. 0, T. Baron 

 has taken very many examples in northern California, and the char- 

 acteristics are uniform. I have living larvae at the present time, from 

 eggs obtained by him from a female in confinement. 



Mr. Edwards says of this species : " It is intermediate between 

 A. Calippe Bdv., and A. Coronis Behr, partaking of the characters of 

 both. . . . Upper side of a rich reddish-brown. Beneath, the 

 primaries are largely suffused with reddish-brown, as in Corotris, but the 

 remainder of the wing is occupied by bright buff, not dull ochreous, as 

 in Corniiis. The silver spots of the margin are very decidedly triangular, 

 and not ovate as are the apical ones of Coroiiis. On the lower wings 

 the differences are more apparent. The silver spots are larger propor- 

 tionally than in any other species with whif;h I am acquainted, while the 

 sheen of the silver is exceedingly vivid and intense. The marginal spots 

 are quite triangular, and the large one of the cell more decidedly oblong 

 than in either Coronis or Cttlippe. The ground color of the wing is 

 bright buff, inclining to orange," etc. 



To this I add, that the species is of medium size, the % expanding 

 about 2 inches, the ? about 2.2 inch. ; that the female is paler, some- 

 what mottled on upper side with yellow-fulvous on disk of primaries, 

 and the submarginal spots, within the black crescents, are yellowish on 

 both wings. So the spots on secondaries which represent the second row 

 of silver spots are paler than the ground. 



Mr. Neumoegen has received from Mr. Baron a singular variety of 

 Lilianu % , which I call var. Baroni. The two marginal lines are very 

 heavy, and in place of the lunules is a third broad line crossing the whole 

 wing ; the series of rounded spots on each wing is represented by a demi- 

 line from costa, and by two round spots in the two median interspaces, 

 the rest of the row wanting ; and the mesial bands are changed from a 

 row of confluent crescent spots to a continuous zigzag narrow band ; the 

 spots in cells are unchanged. On under side about half of primaries is 

 yellow-buff; namely, all except the area next base below median and the 

 base in cell, besides two spots in cell ; secondaries same, yellow-buff ; the 

 margins ferruginous-brown and disk mottled with same ; on primaries 

 a continuous silver bar extends from costa to median instead of the 



