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48. A. Epithore, B'dvl. Upper side same as the above, black 

 markings slighter below, secondaries mottled with yellow, less pur- 

 ple. Expanse, 1 1-2 to 1 5-8 inch. California, Oregon, Colorado. 



49. A. Improba, Butler. Primaries dull tawny, deep chocolate 

 brown at base ; secondaries deep chocolate brown ; markings as in 

 A. Frigga, but indistinct on secondaries ; secondaries below with the 

 basal two-thirds ferruginous, irrorated with gray scales at its external 

 margin, the latter forming a well-marked angle upon the radial ner- 

 vure, above which it is trisinuate and bordered from the costa down- 

 ward by a tapering diffused white spot ; external third fleshy brown, 

 densely speckled with white, the outer border grayish, bounded in- 

 ternally by an interrupted dusky line ; costal margin pure white ; a 

 sharply angulated transverse band (as in Freya) across the basal area, 

 indicated by two irregular parallel dark-brown lines, its sub-costal 

 area filled in with white and its central area irrorated with same. 

 Expands 175 inch. Taken betwean latitude 67^° and 68° Arctic 

 America. 



50. A. Kriemhild, Streaker, Female, size and shape of Epithore, 

 Bdvl ; on upper surface not quite as dark as in that species, the black 

 markings not as heavy, and there is no dark suffusion at the basal 

 parts ; the under surface is much paler than in Bellona, Epithore, or 

 any of the allied species, though of the same style of ornamentation ; 

 the broad irregular mesial band and basal spots of costa are edged 

 with a sharp dark -brown line. Arizona, Utah, and Colorado. 



Kuptoieta, Doub, 

 Approaches closely to " Argynnis," but can be easily distinguished 

 by the absence of all silvered or other spots common to all Argynnids 

 on under side of secondaries, and of the triangular black spots on 

 the margins. 



1. E. Claudia, Cram. Male: Upper side dull pale ferruginous, 

 lighter in median region, which is edged inwardly with a zigzag black 

 line ; an irregular row of discal black spots ; under side of primaries 

 bright ferruginous from base to median ; cellular spot light banded 

 with black ; outer edge pale buff mottled with gray and ferruginous, 

 lightest in apical region ; black markings of upper side appear 

 through ; under side of secondaries dull ferruginous mottled with 

 gray ; a broad central band of pale buff, the black spots of upper 

 side appear through faintly. 



