86 FIELD AND FOREST. 



Descriptions of New Species of Diurnal Lepidoptera 

 found in North America. 



Argvnnis Macaria. 



Male. — Expands about 2 inches. 



Upper side yellow fulvous, more or less obscured at base ; both 

 wings bordered by two fine parallel black lines between which the 

 spaces are fulvous, cut by the black nervules ) on these rest a common 

 series of black lanceolate spots ; those on secondaries larger, more 

 rounded and more delicate ; the extra discal rounded spots small ; 

 the other markings as in Eurynome ; the spot in cell of secondaries- 

 like the letter C, slender and open ; fringes buff, black at the ends of 

 the nervules. 



Under side of primaries orange from base to middle of cell, and 

 within the black spots at end of cell ; also more or less along the 

 median nervure and its branches ; the remainder of the wing and in- 

 cluding the marginal border yellow-buff along the hind margin the 

 black markings are nearly obliterated, and the six anterior submarginal 

 spots very slightly silvered, as are also the three upper spots of the 

 extra-discal row. 



Secondaries yellow-buff, the basal area slightly tinted and mottled 

 with brown ; the belt between the outer rows of spots quite clear ; 

 all the spots large and well silvered ; those of the submarginal row 

 broad and semilunate ; of the second row, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th 

 spots are equal, long oval, the 6th same size but truncated at top, the 

 4th minute, and 7th sub-lunate, all very slightly edged above with 

 black ; the 3rd row consists of three spots, the 1st and 3rd equal, 

 sublunate, the 2nd in cell sub-pyriform and very large ; sometimes 

 there is a minute spot in this row on inner margin ; all these lightly 

 edged above with black ; in the cell a round spot in black ring 

 and a small patch of silver at base, an oval below cell, and a patch 

 at base above ; shoulder and inner margin well silvered. 



Body above covered with fulvous hairs, beneath, thorax gray-buff, 

 abdomen yellow; legs pale fulvous and buff; antennae fuscous above 

 fulvous below ; club black, tip deep fulvous. 



Female. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Upper side paler colored, the interspaces being light while the nerv- 

 ules are mostly edged with fulvous ; the submarginal spots pale through- 



