ARGYNNIS II. 



Body above fulvous; below, the thorax gray-buff, abdomen buff; legs fulvous ; 

 palpi white, furnished in front with long fulvous hairs which are black at tips ; 

 antenna; fuscous above, fulvous below ; club black, tip fulvous. 



Female. — Same size. 



Color Y>iile ; the sub-marginal spots in both wings lighter than the ground, as 

 are also the spots on disk of secondaries corresponding to the second silver row ; 

 the marginal lines confluent and the connecting lunules heavy, especially on 

 secondaries ; in other respects like the male. 



This species was discovered by Mr. T. L. Mead, who took a single male in per- 

 fect condition, at Turkey Creek Junction, Colorado, in June, 1873. Subsequently 

 several specimens of both sexes were brought in by the Yellowstone expedi- 

 tion under Dr. Hayden, from Montana. In 1874, another male was sent me with 

 a few l)utterflies taken by Mr. W. K. Pywell, along the line of the Northern 

 Pacific Railroad west of Bismarck. 



3Iead'n has been surmised to be a possible variety of Edwardsu, but it seems 

 to me the differences between them are too considerable and persistent to admit 

 such relationship. Meadli is of medium size, the primaries scarcely at all pro- 

 duced, the color deep. On the under side the basal area of primaries is pale 

 cinuamon-brown, and the green on both wings is golden, with a gloss like satin, 

 very difficult to represent sufficiently on the Plate. Udwardsii is one of our 

 largest species, with long and tapering primaries, and its color is bright and clear 

 beyond all others. The green of the under side is not of a lively shade, but is 

 either brownish or olivaceous, and the basal area of primaries is fulvous to fiei-y- 

 red in the two sexes. 



