290 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Wings entire, tawny: primaries above brown-black, at the base reticulated with the same colour; 

 in the disk is a transverse macular submarginal band, consisting of eight round black spots ; next 

 follows a marginal internally dentated black band including in it a macular one, consisting of eight 

 oblong pale spots, those nearest the anal angle being tawny; on the underside this wing is tawny, 

 similarly reticulated and spotted with the upper side, only the teeth of the dentated band are very 

 acute, the seven external ones including a silver triangular spot ; there are also three silver spots in 

 a triangle just above the other near the costa, the intermediate one being the largest : the basilar 

 half of the secondaries is brown-black, the apical tawny with six black dots arranged transversely in 

 a curve, followed by six black crescents, a line of the same colour, and a black and tawny marginal 

 band ; on the under side there are twenty-two silver spots, viz. six triangular ones forming a band 

 near the margin ; seven subquadrangular, forming an angular band in the disk, and nine varying in 

 shape and size placed irregularly at the base, making in all thirty -two silver spots : the fringe is 

 white, barred with black. ltS-c^,(,j 



(406) 2. Argynnis Myrina. Myrina Argynnis. 



Papilio Myrina. Fab. Ent. Sijst. iii, 145, 444. Cram. Pap. xvi, t. clxxxix, /. u. c. 

 Melitas Myrina. Say. Am. Ent. iii, t. xlvi. 



Expansion of the wings l^inch. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Wings above tawny-orange, anteriorly reticulated with black; a submarginal macular band is 

 formed on each wing of six round black spots ; there is also an acutely dentated marginal band, each 

 tooth inclosing a tawny spot : primaries underneath inscribed with costal black bars expressing the 

 number 130, with nine irregular black spots on the disk ; with eight silver ones in the margin, 

 above which are two others : the secondaries underneath are ferruginous with paler spots and twenty- 

 one silver ones arranged in bands ; at the base is an area surrounded by silver spots in the centre 

 of which is an eyelet with a pale narrow iris and black pupil ; there is also a series of black spots 

 between the two first bands of silver spots. 



(407) 3. Argynnis Aphrodite. (Fabricius.) Aphrodite Argynnis. 



Argynnis Aphrodite. Fab. Ent. Syst. iii, 144, 443. 

 Expansion of the wings 2{ — 2i inches. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



