EASTERN UNITED STATES. 



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ing a row of white spots ; and there are two anteapical 

 white spots, the lower one quite small. Fringes black 

 spotted with white. 



Under side similar to the upper, but the fulvous is 

 paler; the border contains two rows of white spots, 

 and white spots between the veins in front of the trans- 

 verse line of the hind wings, and on the costa of the 

 fore wings in front of the cell. 



Var. Floridensis, Strecker.— This form has the 

 upper surface dark, almost mahogany color, but the 



Fig. 60. 



L. Archippus : a, egg, X 30 ; c, same, natural size ; (/, more enlarged 

 view of one of the cells. 



under side is as pale as the usual form. This form ib 

 found from the southern part of Illinois south. 



Var. PsEUDODORiPPUS, Strecker.— On this the mesial 

 black stripe of the hind wings is wanting ; the anteapical 

 black patch almost gone,— only indicated by a darkish 

 shade devoid of the usual three white spots. Under sur- 

 face same as above, save that in the submarginal row of 

 white lunules there is no intervening black line between 

 them and the reddish ground color. This was from a 

 single female taken in the Cat^kill Mountains, New York. 



