ARGYNNIS II. 



spot thus made is edged above with black and is in effect a distinct spot. Com- 

 paring the females, Cybele is luteons, very dark at base, heavily marked with 

 black. Aphrodite is suffused with a rich red tint that seems as if in the very tex- 

 ture of the wing, and that makes living specimens consjncuous ; the under side of 

 primaries is red fulvous, of secondaries deep ferruginous, and the band is almost 

 wholly crowxled out. I have taken scores of individuals of both species, in 

 many localities and for many seasons, and there is no mistaking either at first 

 glance. 



Cybele is found in the lowlands of ISTew York, and in New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Virginia and westward to Illinois. How much farther south I am un- 

 able to say, but have not received it in collections from Georgia, Florida or Louis- 

 iana, nor from beyond the Mississippi River. In West Virginia, on the Kanawha 

 Eiver, it is abundant in June and September, frequenting gardens and clover fields 

 in June, and later, the Iron weed, in company with innumerable Papilios, Vanes- 

 sas and Hesperians, and occasionally an Aphrodite or Diana. 



Of the larvce nothing is known, as is unfor'iunately the case Avith the larva) of 

 a large proportion of our butterflies. Probably, like the European species of 

 this family, it feeds upon the wild violet. 



