CATALOGUE OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. ] 09 



" Open woods and uncut meadows" (Edwards, ' Butt. N. Am.'). 



In the ' Butterflies of North America/ a beautiful work which 

 Mr. Edwards is bringing out, is a note, inserted on the authority of 

 A. R,. Grote Esq., to the effect that P. Aphrodite and P. Cybele 

 are not separated in any of the collections in Europe ; it is but fair 

 to state that, as regards the British-Museum collection, this state- 

 ment is incorrect, the two species having in that collection been for 

 some years kept separate*. Both sexes are admirably figured in 

 the above work, Argynnis, pi. 3. figs. 1-4 (1868). 



9. Argynnis Cybele. 



Papilio (N. P.) Cybele, Fabricius, " alis dentatis, fulvis nigro ma- 

 culatis, subtus maculis 34 argenteis : habitat in America." P. 

 Daphnis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. 2. pi. 57. figs. E, F (1779). 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 516. n. 311 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 109. 

 n. 477 (1781); Mant. Ins. p. 62. n. 592 (1787); Ent. Syst. 

 iii. p. 145. n. 445 (1793). 



New York. (Presented by E/Doubleday, Esq.) B.M. 



This species, according to Mr. Edwards, frequents gardens and 

 clover-fields ; it is figured in his ' Butterflies of North America/ 

 Argynnis, pi. 2. figs. 1-4 (1868). 



The type specimen of P. Cybele is in the Banksian Collection in the 

 British Museum, though not referred to by Fabricius. 



10. Argynnis Diana. 



Papilio (N. P.) Diana, Cramer, " alis dentatis, fulvis, disco com- 

 muni nigro ; posticis subtus maculis novem argenteis : habitat in 

 Virginia." Pap. Exot. i. pi. 98. figs. D, E (1779). 



Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 110. n. 479 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 63. 

 n. 594 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 145. n. 447 (1793). 



c? , North Carolina ; two specimens. (Presented by E. Double- 

 day, Esq.) B.M. 



Mr. Edwards gives some most interesting notes upon this splendid 

 Argynnis in his Butterflies of North America.' It affects the iron- 

 weed near woods upon narrow bottoms or river-slopes : both sexes 

 are well figured, Argynnis, pi. 1 (1868). It is quite possible, as 

 Mr. Edwards suggests, that the so-called " Vanessa Pluto " may be the 

 ancestor of P. Diana, though in the narrower banding of its wings, 

 with but one row of submarginal spots, it more nearly resem- 

 bles some of the East-Indian forms of Junonia Hedonia : the two 

 genera to which these species belong agree in many respects, and 

 are perhaps nearly allied. 



11. Argynnis Idalia, 



Papilio (N. P.) Idalia, Drury, " alis dentatis, fulvis nigro macu- 



* See Doubleday in ' List Lep. Brit. Mus.' p. 69. 



