44 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



])rone surface of the primaries. In some specimens these appear 

 not silvered. 



United States — Canada. — Expands 2^ to 2i inches. 



KlRBY. 



Doubleday, in lit., says: "A. aphrodite is smaller and rather 

 brighter than A. cyhele. It has the outer margin of the primaries 

 quite black, instead of the fulvous markings of A. cyhele. The 

 margins of the secondaries have an additional black line ; flight also 

 different." 



5. A. columbina Godt. Godt. Encyc. Method. IX. Figured in Cram, 

 pi. 209 et 69. Boisd. et Lee. 153, j)!. 4i. A. heijesia Cram. A. claudia 

 Cram. 



Wings bright fulvous above, paler in the female, with a trans- 

 verse, posterior row of black points ; outer edge black, divided by 

 a range of fnlvons crescents ; the four wings are traversed by two 

 black zigzag lines. 



The primaries have, besides, two annular black spots on the 

 discoidal cellule. 



The under side of the primaries has the upper edge fulvous ; the 

 second zigzag line is obsolete, and at the summit there is a grayish 

 triangular space more or less distinct. 



Under side of secondaries yellow russety, tainted with brownish ; 

 two whitish transverse bands, of which the anterior is discoidal, 

 extending somewhat on the nerves; the second is marginal, narrow, 

 dentated within, separated from the first by a row of black spots 

 pupilled with grayish. 



Body of same color as the wings. 



This species varies much according to localities. There are 

 some on which the second zigzag ray is obsolete ; others, on which 

 the first is apparent only in the primaries ; others again, which 

 show scarcely any trace of the whitish transverse on the under side 

 of the secondaries. 



Larva spiny, reddish yellow, with two lateral bands, and a series 

 of dorsal spots, white ; abdomen whitish, with the head and feet 

 black; spines blackish, and the two on the first ring are much 

 larger, and directed towards the front like antenna?. 



Chrysalis white, moderately angular, scattered with black dots 



and streaks ; dorsal points yellow. 



Southern States. — Expands three inches. 



Boisd. 



