253 



79. Progne Cram. (Papilio). 



c-ARGENTEUM Kirb., Faun. Bor. Am., 4, 292, pi. 3, figs. 6-7 

 ( Vanessa-G rajita). 

 Progne Cram., Pap. Exot., 2, pi. 5, figs. E F {Papilio) ; God., Encycl. 

 Meth... 9, 304: {Vanessa); Doubl.-Hewits., Gen. Diurn. Lep., 197 

 {Grapta); Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 648 {Nymphalis); Scudd., Syst. 

 Rev., 10; Boisd.-Le C, Lep. Am. Sept., 188, pi. 50, figs. 5-6 {Va- 

 nessa). 

 Grogne Fabr., Mant. Ins., 2, 50 {Papilio). 



L-ARGENTEUM Scudd. 



Northern half of the United States, east of and including the Missis- 

 sippi Valley, extending northward nearly to the Arctic Ocean, but not invading 

 the barren lands. 



Food-plants: Currant, wild gooseberry, elm. 



The form l~argenteum differs from the typical form figured by Kirby in 

 having the hind wings much darker above, though by no means to the extent 

 that umbrosa differs from Fuhricii in the species interrogationis. 



28. EUGONIA Hribner {\S\(S). 

 Type : Papilio polychloros Linn. 



80. j. album Boisd.-Le C, Lep. Am. Sept., 185, pi. 50, figs. 1-2 {Vanessa); 



Lintn., Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 3, 58 {Grapta); Scudd., Syst. Rev., 11 

 {J^ymphalis). 



urticae Harr. (nee. Linn.), Hitch., Rep. 1st Ed., 590 {Vanessa), 

 van-album (pars) Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 184 {Vanessa). 

 East of the Rocky Mountains, from Okkak, Labrador and Great Slave Lake, 

 to northernmost United States, occasionally as far south as Philadelphia 

 (mountains (?) of Cuba). 



81. californica Boisd., Ann. Soc. Ent. France, [2] 10, 306 ( Vanessa) ; Kirb., 



Syn. Cat. Lep., 648 {Nymphalis). 

 California; Oregon. 

 Food-plant : Ceanothiis. 



29. AGLAIS Dalman (1810). 



Type: Papilio urticae Xi>i«. 



82. Milberti God., Encycl. Meth., 9, S07 {Vanessa) ; Kirb., Syn. Cat. Lep., 



648 {Nymplialis) ; Boisd.-Le C, Lep. Am. Sept., 187, pi. 50, figs. 3-4 

 ( Vanessa) ; Scudd., Syst. Rev., 21. 



furcillata Say, Amer. Entom., 2., p\. 27 {Vanessa), 

 urticae Emm. (nee Linn.), Agric. N. Y., 5, 209 ( Vanessa). 

 Across the Continent to Great Slave Lake to northernmost United States, 

 occasionally as far south as Philadelphia ; Colorado. 

 Food-plant : Urtica dioica, etc. 



