ORDER IV.—MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 218 
with black marks, and the hind wings bluish-black on the 
upper side, while the under sides of all four wings are cov- 
ered with silver spots. Its caterpillar has a dark-brown 
body with several yellow lateral lines, and is found in all 
the States of the Union, sometimes on nettles, raspberries, 
and willows, but principally on violets. 
Boisduval and Major Leconte, in their work, “ Histoire 
Naturelle des Lepdopteres de 0 Amerique Septentrionale,”’ enu- 
merate, beside the one here described, the following native 
species, viz. : 
Argynnis Diana, of Virginia and Carolina; Argynnis 
Cybele, of the Eastern and Middle States; Argynnis Co- 
lumbina, of the Southern States and Mexico; Argynnis 
Myrina, of the Northern and Southern States; Argynnis 
Ossianus, of Labrador; Argynnis Polaris and Chariclea, of 
Labrador and Cape Nord; and Argynnis Bellona, of the 
Northern and Southern States. 
