XV.MIMIALIXAK: IJRENTHIS MYRINA. 593 



Table of species, based on the imago. 



Mesial and inariiiiial series of spots on under surface of hind wings lustrous silvery. . .inyrina. 

 Mesial and inar<,nnal series of sjjots on under surface of liiiid wiuirs often hritrliter tlian the 

 f^round i)ut never distinctly lustrous. 

 Ground color of under surface of hind winj^s cinnauion-red, the paler, marginal markings 



of same distinctly white montinus. 



Ground color of under surface of hind wings clouded with purple, the paler, marginal 

 markings of same obscure bellona. 



BRENTHIS MYRINA.— The silver bordered fritillary. 



[The pearl bordered fritillary (Gosse); Myriiia buttertly (Harris;' ; silver bordered fritillary 

 (Scudder) ; silver Itordered butterfly (Maynard) ; black spotted butterfly (Ross).] 



Papilio inyrina Cram., Pap. exot., ii: Ul, 3Ielitaea myrina Say, Amer.entom., iii. pi. 



pi. 189, tigs. B. C. (1779). 46 (1828:") ; Entom. N." Amer., cd LcConte, i: 



Arffynnis myrina Hiibn., Verz. schmett., lOi-105, pi. 4G (1859). 



30 (181(5);— Coisd.-LeC Lep. Am6r. sept., Brenthis myrina Herr.-Schaeti'., Prodr. 



155-15G, pi. 45, figs. 1, 2 (1833) ;-Kirb., Faun. syst. Lep., i : 73 (1865) ;— Scudd., liutt., figs. 3, 



bor. amer., iv : 290 (1837) ;— Morr., Syu. Lep. 9, 431, 132 (1881). 



N. Amer., 45 (1862) ;— Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 3d Argynnis myrinna Gruber. Jen. zeitschrift, 



ed., 286-287, fig. 112 (1862) ;— Pack., Guide ins., xvii : 479, pi. 8, figs. 34-35 (1884). 



253-255 (1868);— Saund., Can. ent., i : 55-57 ^r^?/nMis ?«y?-mrt God., Encycl. m6th., ix : 



(1869) ;-Edw., Ibid., vii: 189-195 (1875) ; viii : 253, 266, 806 (1819). 



161-163 (1876); ix:34 (1877); Pap., i: 134-141 Papilio myrinus Herbst, Natursyst. ins. 



(1881) ;-Middl. Rep. ins. 111., x : 82 (1881) ;- schmett., ix : 178-179, pi. 255, figs. 3-4 (1798). 

 Coq.. Ibid., 161 (1881);— Fern., Butt. Me., 42- 



43, fig. 15 (1884) ;— Gruber, Pap., iv: 91, pi. 3, Figured by Glover, 111, N. A. Lep., pi. 26, 



flgs. .34-35 (1884) ;— French, Butt. east. U. S., fig. 2, ined, 

 161-163, fig. 42 (1886) ;— Mayn., Butt. N, E., 25- 

 26, pi. 4, figs. 29, 29a [not named] (1886). 



The garden is fragrant everywhere. 

 In its lily-bugles the gold bee sups. 



And butterflies flutter on winglets fair. 

 Round the tremulous meadow buttercups. 



Munkittrick:.— //ere. 



Imago (4 : 5, 12 : 4). Head crossed with black and fulvous scales and thickly beset 

 with long- hairs, fulvous at the base, brownish yellow-green beyond; sides behind the 

 eyes mostly pale buflf. Sides of palpi white, beyond the middle becoming graduallj^ 

 tinged Avith orange, and excepting the basal third, becoming more and more specked 

 apically with blackish ; fringed beneath with pale fulvous hairs, above with brighter ful- 

 vous hairs, mingled with fuscous ; the apical joint almost entirely fuscous both above 

 and below, along the lower outer border a spreading fringe of black hairs ; inner much 

 like the outer side, but considerably obscured with longer blackish scales. Antennae 

 pale luteous, covered with white and black scales ; the white forms a broad, continuous 

 streak on the inner lower border, extending also over most of that side of the club, 

 the black most conspicuous above, but always interrupted at the base of the joints 

 with white ; two or three of the basal joints tufted slightly with fulvous hairs ; club 

 velvety black, the basal joints marked with w'hite, the last three or four joints above 

 and the whole broad median line beneath, dull orange, beneath somewdiat infuscated. 

 Tongue luteous at base, becoming gradually infuscated beyond to a blackish fuscous 

 tint, the extreme tip luteo-f uscous ; papillae (61: 39) appressed fabiform, three times 

 as long as broad, longer than half the width of the tongue, broader apically than 

 basally, the tip rounded, with a slender apical cup, from which, nearly filling it, 

 springs a stout, conical, blunt-tipped filament, not half so long as the width of the 

 papilla; they are distant, and arranged in open pairs. 



Thorax covered with black scales, concealed by greenish fulvous hairs, more cou- 



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