NYMPIIALINAE: ARGYNNIS APIIKODITE. 563 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.— ARGYNNIS CYDELE. 



Efffj. Imago. 



PI. 64, fig. 39. Plain. PI. 4. fig. 7. Female, both surfaces. 

 67:12. Micropyle. 3.3:44. Male abdominal appendages. 



Catei-pillar. 43:9. Upper surface wings of male, 



PI. 75, fig. 4. Mature caterpillar. showing secondary sexual cliaracters. 



79 : 4-6. Front view of head, stages i, v, vi. ^^ : 12. Androconiuni. 



Chrysalis. 61 : 32. Papilla of tongue. 



PI. 84, fig. 1. Side view in outline. General. 



2. Dorsal view in outline. P^- 21» ^S- ^- Distribution in North America. 



3. Side view. 



ARGYNNIS APHRODITE.— The silver spot fritillary. 



[The silver spot (Gosse) ; Aphrodite butterfly (Harris) ; silver winged butterfly (Maynanl) ; 

 the Venus fritillary (Morris) ; Venus's argynne (Emmons).] 



Papilio ai)/«?-0(?i;e Fabr., Maut. ins., ii:62 III., x:81 (1881);— Fern., Butt. Me., 41 



(1787). (1884) ;— Mayn., Butt. N. E., 24, pi. 3, figs. 27, 



Aryiinnis aphrodite God., Eucycl. m6th., 27a (1886). 



ix : 2.52, 264(1819);— Harr., Ins. inj, veg., 3d Argynnis {Argijronome) aphrodite Steph., 



ed., 285-286, fig. Ill (1862) ;—Kirb., Faim- Cat. Brit. Lep., 258 (1850). 



bor.-amer., iv: 290-291 (1837) ; — Morr., Syu. Argynnis cybele, vnr. aphrodite Herr.- 



Lep. N. Amer., 4.3-44 (1862) ;— Edw., Butt. X. Schaefl"., Prodr. syst. Lep., 1 : 73 (1865). 



Am., i, Arg. iii, figs. 1-4 (18&8) ; — Pack., Papilio daphn'is Mart.. Psyche, tab. 3. no. 



Guide Ins., 253, fig. 183 (1868);— French, Eep. 7, tab. 4, no. 9 (1797). 



ins. 111., vii: 150 (1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 157- Figured by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep.. pi. K, 



158, fig. 40 (1886) ;— Morr., Hist. Brit, butt., fig. 8, ined. 



3d ed., 113, pl.52 (1880);- Middl., Rep. ins. [Not Papilio daphuis Cramer.] 



The grass, with its low insect-tones, appears 

 As murmuring iu its sleep. This butterfly 

 Seems as if loth to stir, so lazily 

 It flutters by. 



Street. — An Auttcmn Landscape. 



Imago (4: 1, 2; 12: 11). Head, thorax, and appendages of both, excepting the 

 ■wiugy, the same as iu the preceding species. 



"Wings above either orange fulvous, tinged with red, the hind wings paler excepting 

 on tlie basal half (J); or luteo-fulvous, tinged faintly with red, especially ou the 

 basal half of the hind Avings, and sufl'used with a dull olivaceous greenish hue, partic- 

 ularly oil the apical half of the fore Aviugs ($). Inner margin of the fore wings 

 straight, second superior subcostal nerviile arising at two-thirds the distance from the 

 origin of the first to the apex of the cell ; the third at three-quarters the distance 

 from the apex of the cell to the origin of the fourth ; the latter midway between the 

 apex of the cell and the outer border. The veins black ; basal half of the costal bor- 

 der, the cell as far as the first transverse band and the basal third of the wing below 

 the cell (in the female rather more than this) rather {$) or very ( $ ) heavily 

 begrimed with black scales ; the cell is crossed and ornamented at the apex with 

 bars exactly similar to those of the preceding species, although the sickle shaped 

 spot seems usually to have a longer and deeper curve than in that species ; beyond is 

 a similar mesial baud, extending from close to the costal border at about three-fifths 

 the distance from the base to the submedian nervure at about the same distance from 

 the base ; the initial portion of the band is like that of the preceding species and 

 the upper median interspace is ci'ossed by a similar lunule ; the lower median ner- 

 viile is also crossed by a similar lunule in the middle of its basal third (some- 

 times half) and the medio-submedian interspace possesses a bar usually straight, 

 its interior border sometimes scarcely beyond the middle of the interspace, though 

 usually separated from it by half the Avidth of an interspace ; the cross markings and 



