ARGYNNIS III. 



Female. — Expands 2.35 inches. 



Upper side pale fulvous ; the marginal spots of both wings lighter. Under side 

 as in the male, the basal area and nervules of primaries red. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Aberr. Baroni. The two marginal lines very heavy, and in place of the sub- 

 marginal lunules a broad band crossing the wing ; the row of round black spots 

 is represented by a band from costa to upper median nervule, with two round 

 spots in the median interspaces, the two spots usually found in the next inter- 

 spaces wanting ; on the under side, the marginal silver spots of primaries are 

 changed to a solid bar, and the corresponding lunules on secondaries are changed 

 in same manner ; so the three spots of second row next costa are confluent, mak- 

 ing one great spot. This fine aberration is in the collection of B. Neumoegen, 

 Esq. 



Egg. — Conoidal, truncated, depressed at summit, marked vertically by twenty- 

 two or twenty-three ribs, which are as in the other species of the genus ; the 

 outline of this egg is much as in Eurynome, Vol. II, pi. 23, the base being broad, 

 the top narrow, and the height not much more than the breadth ; color yellow. 

 (See Plate V of Argynnis, Fig. a.) 



Young Larva. — Length .08 inch; cylindrical, marked as in the genus by 

 tuberculous patches, with hairs the same in number, but somewhat different from 

 some other species in the sub-dorsal rows ; there are here two hairs from each 

 tubercle, but instead of being nearly equal in length, the anterior one is much the 

 shorter, and inclines toward the head, while the other stands up straight, or leans 

 a little towards the tail ; color of body light brown ; head as broad as 2, sub- 

 globose, somewhat pilose ; color black-brown. (Plate V, Fig. &.) 



Liliana flies in northern California and Utah. The examples taken by Mr. 

 Henry Edwards, from which the description was made, were from Napa County. 

 Mr. 0. T. Baron supplied collectors during the years 1878 to 1880 from Lake 

 County and elsewhere, and on 12th July mailed me eggs just then laid by a 

 female confined over violet. The eggs hatched 24th July, or at about 13 days 

 from the laying, and the larvae at once went into lethargy. Later in the season, 

 I sent them to Maine for safe-keeping through the winter, but none survived. 

 (By an oversight the egg and young larva were not figured on the present Plate, 

 but will be given on Plate V of this series of Argynnis.) 



