NVMl'lIALIXAK: ARGYNXIS ATLANTIS. 571 



LIST OF ILLUSTBATIONS.-ABaYNNIS APIIIIODITE. 



General. Imago. 



1 1. 21, li--. G. Distriljution in XdiUi Amcricu. I'l. 4, fi-. 1. Feiiialo, hoth surfaces. 



Efj(j. 2. Male, both surfaces. 



PI. (iiJig-So. Colored. 12:11. Both surfaces. 



G7:ll. Micropyle. 33:40. Male alHloniiual apyeudages. 



Caterpillar. 46:13. Aiidroconiuni. 



n. 72, tig. 5. Caterpillar at birth. ^^ '• ^- '''"'^ ^"'<^^^' f** I'cad and appendages 



79 : 3. Front view of head in stage i. enlarged, with details of leg structure. 



Chrysalis. "^ '■^- ^J ^,^'"' •'*'«» »f 1'"h1 wing, male. 



PI. ^4, tig. .-.. Side view. '•^- ^'^"™ti"" of hind wing, female. 



ARGYNNIS ATLANTIS. -The mountain silver-spot. 



[The mountain siher-spot (Seuddcr); mountain silver-spotted butterfly (Maynard).] 



Argijnnis atlantis Edw.,Proc. Acad. nat. east. U. S., 160-161, fig. IGl (188G) •— M-iyn 



se. Philad. , 1862, 54-55 (1862) ; Butt. N". Amer., Butt. X. E., 24-25, pi. 4° figs. 28, 28a (1886)" ' 

 i, Arg. V, figs. 1-3 (1868); Can. ent., xx: 1-3 Argynnis aphrodite Butl.^CatFabr Leo 



(18S8) ; ~ Pack., Guide Ins., 252 (1869);— 108(1869). 



Moeschl., Stett. ent. zeit., xxxv: 156-157 Figured by Glover, 111. N A Lep pi 3,s 



(1874) ;-Middl., Rep. ins. 111., x : 82 (1881) ;- fig. 14; pi. L, fig. 7, ined. ' "' ^ ' ' ' 



Fern., Butt. Me., 42 (1884); — French, Butt. [l^ot Papilio aphrodite Fabr.] 



Over the fields, in his frauke lustinesse, 

 And all the champaine o're he soared li^ht • 

 And all the couutrey wide he did posselse' 

 Feeding upon their pleasures bounteouslie' 

 That none gainsaid, nor none did him envie. 



SPEXSER.— il!/?(to^JOf?HOS. 



Imago (4: G). Head covered -with fulvous hairs barely paler in front, pale bufl" 

 next the hinder edge of the eyes. The whole of the basal joint of the palpi, the base 

 and the -whole lower outer half of the middle joint, white, the upper outer half fulvous 

 paler next the middle line; apical joint fulvous, inner half of the under surface with 

 long fulvous hairs ; inner side as far as the apical joint, white, partiallv concealed 

 especially toward the apex, with fulvous hairs ; the whole palpus sprinkled with black 

 hairs. Antennae dull orange fulvous beneath, the basal ten or twelve joints marked 

 Avith white, which diminishes in amount aAvay from the head, blackish brown above 

 and on the club, the terminal four joints bright orange above and below, the fifth 

 tinged with the same on the under surface. Tongue castaneous near the base, the 

 middle line blackish, beyond dark fuscous, the tip dull luteous. 



Thorax covered above with fulvous hairs, tinged strongly with olivaceous, except- 

 ing on the prothorax. Beneath covered with dirty, pale buft" hairs, tinged at the tip 

 with fulvous. Legs as in A. cybele ; spines yellowish broAvn ; spurs dark yellowish 

 brown ; claws reddish brown ; paronychia hyaline ; pulvillus blackish fuscous. 



Wings above either orange ful\-ous, tinged with red, slightly duller than in A. aphro- 

 dite {$); or dull, rather dingy luteo-fulvous, tinged with olivaceous, especially in the 

 begrimed portions ( $ ) , the veins of fore wings black, of hind wings dusky. Inner mar- 

 gin of the fore wings straight. Second superior subcostal nervule arising at about 

 two-thirds the distance from the origin of the first to the apex of the cell ; the third at 

 five-sevenths the distance from the apex of the cell to the origin of the fourth ; the latter 

 more than half way from the apex of the cell to the outer border. Fore wings considerably 

 begrimed, on the cell as far as the middle transverse bar, and on the median interspaces 

 very nearly or quite as far as the mesial stripe, with fuscous scales ; cell crossed by bars 

 exactly similar to those of A. cybele ; the apex is heavily bordered exteriorly and interi- 

 orly Avitli black, greatly expanding outwardly in the subcosto-median interspace and en- 



