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nut brown, mottled with black ; the wings being black at the 

 base. The sexes of the rare and superb A. D!<in ('minor differ 

 remarkably, the male being dark velvety brown, with ;i deep 

 orange border, while the female is blue-black, with lighter blue 

 spots and patches on the border of the wings. It has been 

 taken in West Virginia, Georgia and Arkansas. 



A. Aphrodi'e (Fig. 183*) abounds in the Northern States. 

 According to Scudder, it is double-brooded, appearing about 

 the middle of June, and fresh specimens late in August. A. 

 Montinus, a more diminutive species, was discovered by Mr. 

 Scudder on the lower half of the barren summits of the White 

 Mountains. Allied to this last species by their size, are A. 

 Myrina Cramer and A. Bellona Fabr. found in damp meadows 

 late in summer. 

 A. Myrina has 

 tawny wings bor- 

 dered with black 

 above, and ex- 

 pands from one 

 and three-fourths 

 to one and eight- 

 tenths of an inch. 

 A. Bellona differs 

 from the other 

 species by not Fi s- 183t 



having any silvery spots on the under side of the wings. Mr. 

 Saunders has reared A. Myrina from eggs deposited June 24th, 

 by a specimen confined in a box. "The egg is pale green, 

 elongated, shaped something like an acorn, with the base 

 smooth, convex and the circumference striated longitudinally, 

 with about fourteen raised striae which are linear and smooth ; 

 the spaces between are about three times wider than the striae, 

 depressed, concave- in the middle, and ribbed by a number of 

 cross lines, fifteen to twenty between each striae, and distinctly 

 indented. The egg is contracted at the apex, the striae protrud- 

 ing at the tip all around a little beyond the body of the egg. 

 The larva hatched in six or seven days, and when fresh from the 



* The upper side of the wings are figured on the left side, and the under side 

 on the right, in this and in FIGS. 184 and 188. 



