80 BUrrERFLY COLLECTOR'S 



Cutcrpiltar. With a black head, liody black above, under- 

 neath yellowish, with a lateral white stripe ; legs reddish. 



C/irysalis. Greenish-white dotted with black, and poste- 

 rially furnished with many whitish-yellow tubercles. 



Observation. All the wings of tliis species have a sort of 

 greasy appearance upon their disk, whence its name. 



MELIT^EA LUCINA, DUKE OF BURGUNDY 

 FRITILLARY. 



Letoinpl, 16,/.5,6. Donovan v. 7, p. 242. Duncan, pi. 12, fig. 1. 



liutterjly. Like the preceding, but almost thrice as small. 

 All the wings above, chequered with black and tawny, 

 blackening at the liase. Primary wings, underneath, tawny, 

 marked with black and pale. Secondary wuigs, underneath, 

 of a deep tawny, with two bands of whiti.sh spots, and a 

 marginal scries of bhu'k dots ; fi-inge brown and white. 



C'atfrpillar. Pale oUve brown, with a black dot on each 

 segment ; head and legs rusty red. 



C'/iri/salis. 



Genus Argvnnis, />/. If.fis. 7. 



Antennec like those of MetUica. 



Palpi not much longer than the head, robust, acute. 



Forelegs hke those oi MeUt<ea. 



fftngs scalloped ; primary often subfulcatc ; scconilary like 



those oi Melilecu. 

 Egg conical, subumbilicate, many ridged, vertex rounded. 

 Caterpillar spinosc. 



Chrysalis subangular, suspended, head-case notched. 

 &7V'. ll,i. pi. 1. 



