ARGYNNIS. 45 



6. A. myrina Cram. Cram. Encyc. Method. IX, 268. Figured in Cram. 



pi. 189. Herbst. pi. 255. Boisd. et Lee. 155, pi. 45. Say's Amer. 

 Ent. pi. 46. A. myrissa Godt. 



Upper side fulvous with black spots, some irregular, disposed 

 confusedly towards the base ; the others are in the form of points 

 or dots,' in a line parallel with the outer edge, which has a black 

 band, divided by a series of fulvous crescents. 



Under side of primaries paler, except at the summit, where it is 

 a little ferruginous, and marked with two or three nacre spots. 

 The outer edge also has a range of triangular silver lunules. 



The under side of the secondaries is red ferruginous, with two 

 or three yellow spaces, and about twenty-four silver spots, some 

 irregular and unequal towards the base, the others disposed in two 

 transverse series, of which the one forms marginal crescents; these 

 two rows are separated by a series of brownish black points. 

 Towards the base of the wings there is a black silvery circle. 



Body blackish above, grayish yellow below; antennae black, and 

 annulated with white, and the extremity of the club yellow. 



Female with a taint a little less vivid than the male. 



United States. — Expands one and three quarter inches. 



Boisd. 



7. A. bellona Godt. Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 271. Boisd. et Lee. 164, 



pi. 45. 



Size and form of A. myrina, but the primaries are a little more 

 sinuous. 



Wings fulvous, with a large number of black spots, some placed 

 confusedly towards the base, where the ground color is more 

 obscure, the others forming two parallel rows on the outer edge, 

 which is sometimes a little intersected with black. 



Under side of primaries fulvous and spotted, as above, with the 

 summit washed with brown and pale yellow, and marked with a 

 small transverse line of whitish violet. 



The anterior half of the under side of the secondaries is yellow 

 russety, with ferruginous undulations and atoms, a bifid spot of 

 whitish violet towards the base, inclosing in its angle an orbicular 

 spot of reddish yellow. The other half is violet or coppery purple, 

 with a transverse row of six or seven brown points pupilled with 

 whitish, followed on the terminal edge with obscure lunules, more 

 or less distinct, and forming nearly a continuous marginal ray. 



