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LEPIDOPTERA. 



Fig. 116. 



form as those of Argynnis, and spotted with black or brown, 

 but are not ornamented with golden spots. 



Melitcea Phaeton, Drury. Phaeton Butterfly. (Fig. 115.) 



Wings black, with a row of orange-red crescents around 



the hind margin, 

 within which are 

 from two to four 

 rows of cream-col- 

 ored spots ; on the 

 fore wings, behind 

 the middle of the 

 front margin, are 

 two orange-red spots, and sometimes another of the same 

 color on the middle of the hind wings. All the wings are 

 black beneath, and spotted in the same way as on the 

 upper side, with the addition of several large orange-red and 

 pale yellow spots between the middle and the base ; the 

 abdomen has three rows of cream-colored dots on the top. 

 Expands from 2 to 2£ inches or more. 

 This species is rare in Massachusetts ; it appears in low 

 grounds in June. The wings are elongated, as in Argynnis 

 ina, but the feelers are short. 



Melitcea Ismeria ? Boisduval. Ismeria Butterfly. 



Wings tawny above, blotched with blackish narrow spots 

 at the base, the fore wings blackish on the hind margins and 

 tips ; the hind wings veined and edged with black, with a 

 row of black crescents near the hind border, next to which 

 is a row of round black dots ; body covered with white down 

 beneath ; under side of the wings ochre-yellow, with a row 

 of pale yellow crescents edged with black near the hind 

 margin ; the rest of the surface of the fore wings variegated 

 with small black and large yellowish spots ; next to the 

 external row of crescents of the hind wings is a row of 

 yellowish dots encircled with black, across the middle a 



