42 LEPIDOPTERA OP NORTH AMERICA. 



divided, in the male, by a range of yellowish crescents ; and in the 

 female, by a row of white spots. 



The female has also some white spots on the summit, where the 

 border dilates considerably. 



The upper side of the secondaries is steel blue, with the base 

 russety, traversed by two rows of large white points, of which the 

 outer are yellow in the male. 



The under side of the primaries resembles the upper, except that 

 the terminal band is less deep, and the spots which divide it are 

 nacre. 



The under side of the secondaries is dull brown (dead leaves), 

 with about twenty-eight nacred spots, of which the seven marginal 

 are crescents ; those of the disk are conic, divided or bordered by 

 a black line ; the edge at the base nacre. Emarginations of the 

 wings whitish. 



Body blackish, with yellow hairs on the thorax. 



United States. — Expands nearly five inches. 



Boisd. 



2. A. diana Cram. Cram. II, 4. Figured in Cram. pi. 98. Herbst. pi. 



253. Say's Amer. Ent. pi. 17. 



Wings slightly dentate ; black brown from the base to the 

 middle, then fulvous to the edge. The fulvous forms a wide band, 

 crenate within, having on the primaries two transverse rows of 

 black points, and on the secondaries only one row. 



The black points are obsolete on the under side of the primaries ; 

 the dark part is marked with two nacre spots, preceded within by 

 three fulvous streaks, and outwardly by three small yellowish spots. 



Under side of secondaries much paler than the upper, with nine 

 nacre spots, of which three are triangular, situated between the 

 base and the middle of the outer edge ; the seven others are cres- 

 cent, on a line with the posterior edge. 



Southern States. 



Say. 



3. A. cybele Godt. Godt. Encjc. Method. IX, 263. Figured in Cram. 



pi. 57. Herbst. pi. 255. Boisd. et Lee. 151, pi. 45. A. daphnis 

 Cram. A. aphrodite Fab. 



Upper side obscure from the base to the middle ; deeper in the 

 female ; then fulvous, with three transverse rows of black spots, of 

 which the interior are in a zigzag line. Those intermediary are 



