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LEPIDOPTERA. 



spots ; the rest of the surface is more or less covered with 

 large irregular black spots ; beneath the tips of the fore 

 wings are seven or eight silvery spots, and on the under 



Fig. 111. 



side of the hind wings are above twenty large silvery-white 

 spots, six of which are near the base, and the rest are 

 arranged in three curved rows. 



Expands from 2 to 3 inches. 



Very common on flowers in low grounds in the latter part 

 of July and the beginning of August. 



Argynnis Myrina, Cramer. Myrina Butterfly. (Fig. 112.) 



Wings tawny, bordered with black above, with a row of 

 Fig 112 . black crescents adjoining the 



border, and another of round 

 black spots at a distance from 

 it ; the remainder of the sur- 

 face from the base to the mid- 

 dle with irregular black spots; 

 under side of the hind wings 

 variegated with brown, with a few ochre-yellow spaces inter- 

 posed, and above twenty silvery-white spots arranged in four 

 rows ; between the two outer rows is a series of black dots, 

 and between the two inner rows a single black dot encir- 

 cled with silvery white. 



Expands from 1|- to 1-^ inch. 



