ARGYNNIS III. 



and inner margin reddish ; secoudai'ies heneatli nearly covered with dense ferrugi- 

 nous almost obliterating the )>and. 



This species has usually been confounded with CVbele. For a full eomi^arisou 

 of the two see the preceding paper. 



Ai)hrodite is common throughout the southern and less elevated parts of New 

 England and of Canada, but also of the mountainous jiarts of southern New York 

 and of Pennsylvania, and is occasionally found in AVest Virginia and ;is far Avest 

 as Illinois. Mr. 8cudder, in his List of Butterflies of New England, says it is not 

 found among the White Mountains, where it is replaced by Atlantis. In the Cats- 

 kill Mountains, of NeAV York, it is a very common sj)ecies, but not to the exclu- 

 sion of Atlantis, which also is tolerably abundant. The males are first seen in 

 that region from the 1st to 10th of July and the females about the 15th, flying 

 through the 02)en Avoods and ujion the still uncut meadows. In the sunlight the 

 red tint, es2)ecially of the females, is intense. Something of this is lost in cabinet 

 sjiecimens, but it is always sufficiently preserved to show a strong contrast to Cy- 

 bele. In the Northern States Aphrodite j)roduces but a single brood. In West 

 A^irginia, ujJon the Kanawha River, there are two, in June and Sept end )er. These 

 southern specimens are less brightly colored. I have never seen the larvte, but am 

 informed by Mr. D. AV. Beadle, of St. Catherines, Canada, that " they feed upon 

 all kinds of wild violet, that they feed at night, but lie concealed during the day 

 beneath chips or stones on the ground. In apjiearance they niuch resenJjle the 

 larvae of V. Antiojaa, and are found early in July." 



