ARGYNNIS y. 



ARGYNNIS HALCYONE, 3, 4. 



Argynnh Halcijone, Edwards, ^, But. N. A., Vol. I, p. 83, pi. 28. 1869. 



Female. — Expands from 3 to o.25 inches. 



Closely like the male in color and markings, as described ; but some examples 

 are of a deep brown-red. The silver spots are large. Those of the second row 

 round or broad oval mostly. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



Halcvone was described twenty years ago from two examples of the male 

 sent me by the late B. D. Walsh, which had been taken somewhere in Colorado 

 by Dr. Velie. It was many years before I saw another, on Mr. Morrison's return 

 from a collecting trip in southern Colorado. From him I had a few specimens, 

 mostly females. Some years a2;o, Mr. E. A. Dodo;e sent me a mtile taken in 

 the same State, but with no note of locality. And in 1886, Mr. David Bruce 

 sent a male from Golden. The species is still a very rare one in collections, but 

 I think somcwiiere in the south or southwest of Colorado and the adjacent parts 

 of Utah and Arizona it will some day be found in abundance. 



