102 FIELD AND FOREST. 



one side and to lower median interspace on the other ; within this 

 patch on the cell is a-buff stripe on black ground ; next base three 

 long and narrow buop spots ; the spot on discal row upon the inner 

 margin is extended nearly to base. 



Body above black, the joints of the abdomen edged with buff, 

 beneath gray-buff, abdomen yellowish ; legs fulvous ; palpi white 

 in front, black at tip with fulvous hairs, black above ; antennae 

 fuscous above, finely ringed with white, fulvous below; club black, 

 very little tinted with ferruginous at tip. 



From a single female taken at San Antonio, Texas, by Mr. Boll. 

 The male will not differ materially if at all in markings. The species 

 belongs to Group III of Melitcea, and is near M. Thekla, Edw. 



Argynnis Columbia, H. Edwards, in lit. 



Male. — Expands from 2 to 2, 3 inches. Size and shape of Atlantis. 



Upper side pale red-fulvous, very little obscured at base ; the 

 hind margins edged by two parallel lines, rarely confluent and then 

 only on the apical half of primaries ; the submarginal black spots 

 narrow, lunate, and well separated on secondaries, on primaries sub- 

 lanceolate, sometimes separated, but as often confluent and touching 

 the lines; the discal band of primaries almost always macular; the 

 spots in cell as in Atlantis and the allied species ; on secondaries the 

 discal band is macular, the spots lunate, unusually small, but occa- 

 sionally large and much bent as in the female ; the mark in cell like 

 the letter S ; fringes whitish, black at the ends of the nervules. 



Under side of primaries pale fulvous over the whole wing except 

 at apex and on the outer half of costal margin, where the ground is 

 buff; hind margin brown, shading into fulvous at inner angle ; the 

 black markings of the disk and cell repeated ; the submarginal spots 

 black next inner angle, the five upper ones brown enclosing silvered 

 spots ; on the subapical brown patch three silver spots. 



Secondaries have the basal and discal areas light ferruginous, 

 very little mottled with buff; the hind margin brown, and the belt 

 between the two outer rows of spots buff, more or less encroached on 

 by the discal color ; the spots generally small and well silvered, and 

 in number and shape as in Atlantis ; those of the submarginal row 

 edged without by black, the others edged by black on the inner side. 



Body above covered with fulvous hairs, beneath gray-buff, the abdo- 

 men yellowish ; legs fulvous ; palpi fulvous in front and at tip, whitish 



