288 LEl'lDOPTERA. 



form as tliose of Argymiis, and spotted witli black or brown, 

 but are not ornamented with golden spots. 



Melitcea Phaeton, Drmj. Phaeton Butterfly. (Fig. 115.) 



Wings black, with a row of orange-red crescents around 

 Fig. m. the hind margin, 



within which are 

 fi'om two to four 

 rows of cream-col- 

 ored spots ; on the 

 fore wings, behind 

 the middle of the 

 front margin, are 

 two orange-red spots, and sometimes another of the same 

 color on the middle of the hind wino;s. All the winffs are 

 black beneath, and spotted in the same way as on the 

 upper side, with the addition of several large orange-red and 

 pale yellow spots between the middle and the base ; the 

 abdomen has three rows of cream-colored dots on the top. 



Expands from 2 to 2^ inches or more. 

 - This species is rare in Massachusetts ; it appears in low 

 grounds in June. The wings are elongated, as in Argynnis 

 Myrina, but the feelers are short. 



3IelitcEa Tsmeria ? Boisduval. Ismeria Butterfly. 



Wings tawny above, blotclied with blackish narrow spots 

 at the base, the fore wings blackish on the hind margins and 

 tips ; the hind wings veined and edged with black, with a 

 row of black crescents near the hind border, next to which 

 is a row of round black dots ; body covered with white down 

 beneath ; under side of the wings ochre-yellow, with a row 

 of pale yellow crescents edged with black near the hind 

 margin ; the rest of the surface of the fore wings variegated 

 with sniall black and large yellowish spots ; next to the 

 external row of crescents of the hind wings is a row of 

 yellowish dots encircled with black, across the middle a 



