554 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



ARGYNNIS CYBELE.— The great spangled fritillary. 



[The great spangled fritillary (Gosse) ; yellow banded silver wing (Mayuard).] 



Papilio cybele Fabr., Syst. eutom., 516 Reyi. ins. 111., vii: 150 (1878); Butt, east 



(1775) ;— Herbst, Xatursyst. ins. scbmett., ix : U. S., 155-156 (1886) ; — Middl., Rep. ins. 111., 



176-177, pi. 255, figs. 1-2 "(1798). x : 81 (1881) ; —Fern., Butt. Me., 40 (1884) ;— 



Acidalia cybele (pars) Hiilni., Verz. Mayn., Butt. N. E., 23-24, pi. 3, figs. 26, 26a 



schmett., 31 (1816). (1886). 



Argynnis cybele God., Encycl. m(?th., ix : Ar{/y7inis (Ar(/yrono7ne) cybele Steph., Cat. 



252, 263-264 (1S19) ;— Boisd.-LeC., L6p. Am6r. Brit. Lep. 2.58 (1850). 



sept., 151-152, pi. 45, figs. 3-4 (1833);— Doubl., Papilio daphuis Cram., Pap. exot., i: 89, 



Trans. Linn. soc. Lond., xix, pi. 42, fig. 7 pi. 57, figs. E. F. (1779). 



(1845); — Morr., Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 42-43 Ar[/ynnisaphroclite'iiumphY.-Wef^tw.,Bnt' 



(1862) ; — Edw., Butt. N. Amer., i, Arg. ii, butt., 3d ed., 46, pi. 12, figs. 4-5 (1856). 



figs. 1-4 (1868); ii, Arg. vii (1876); Can. ent.. Fig. by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 35, fig. 



vi: 121-125 (1874); xii: 141-145 (1880);— 8*; pi. K, fig. 5?, 11, ined. 



Saund., Can. ent., iv : 121-123 (1872) ;— French, (Not Papilio aphrodite Fabr.) 



Comme un (?ventail de sole, 



II diploic 

 Son nianteau sem6 d'argent ; 

 Et sa robe l)igarr6e 



Est dor6e 

 D'un or verdatre et ehangeant. 



De Nerval. — Les Papillons. 



Imago (4:7). Head covered Avitli fulvous hairs, in front paler; in front of the base 

 of the antennae and behind the lower three-quarters of the eyes, pale yellowish. Palpi 

 with the whole of the basal joint, and the whole exterior lower surface pale buff", Avith 

 long, stift", black hairs; beneath similar, but tinged strongly with fulvous; upper exte- 

 rior surface, especially on the apical half, still more strongly fulvous; above yellow- 

 ish, with Intermingled long black scales, and longer fulvous hairs; extreme tip black 

 or fulvous ; interior surface pale yellow, streaked Avith black hairs. Tongue dull ful- 

 vous at base, blackish fuscous beyond, the tip luteo-fuscous. Antennae luteo-fulvous 

 beneath, the basal ten or twelve joints heavily marked with white, dusky brow^n 

 above, the bases of the joints, especially toward the tip, more or less marked with 

 white; club blackish, the basal joint marked a little with white above, the tip dark 

 reddish, and the terminal four or five joints more or less tinged with the same, espec- 

 ially above. Papillae (61 : 32) occurring only at the tip of the tongue, apple-seed 

 shaped, appressed (seen edgewise in the figure) two to three times longer than broad, 

 shorter than half the width of the tongue, with room for three in the interspace between 

 every pair, the apical filament not a fourth as long as the width of the papilla, a little 

 oblique. 



Thorax covered above with fulvous hairs, tinged strongly with olivaceous, excepting 

 on the prothorax and the outside and front of the patagia. Beneath covered with 

 pale brownish yellow hairs, some of them, and especially the exterior ones (most ex- 

 posed to view), tinged with fulvous. Fore legs similarly marked, the front of the 

 tibiae brighter; other legs yellowish brown, the under surface of the femora covered 

 with silvery brown scales, dotted with black, and the tibiae and tarsi besprinkled slightly 

 with Avhitish scales. Spines dark reddish brown, with dusky insertions ; spurs yellow- 

 ish brown at base, reddish broAvu beyond; claws reddish brown; paronychia yellowish 

 brown. 



Wings, above either orange fulvous {$), or luteo-fulvous, the hind wings very 

 slightly paler (?). Inner margin of fore wing scarcely sinuous, being very slightly 

 prominent in the middle of the basal half and beyond it very slightly and broadly 

 emarginate. Second superior subcostal nervule arising either one-half ( $ ) or fully 



