ARGY.NNIS II. 
next base, are edged with black above ; the three round spots near base circled with 
black. 
Body above color of base, below light buff ; legs and palpi still lighter ; anten- 
nae fulvous above, ferruginous below ; club black, ferruginous at tip. 
Female. Expands 3.5 inches. 
Luteous ; the base more obscure, often almost black, spots and lines heavier. 
Under side duller colored ; the band on secondaries broad and immaculate. 
The two species, Cybele and Aphrodite, have generally been confounded by au- 
thors and collectors. Boisduval and LeConte say, “it appears to us without doubt 
that P. Aphrodite of Fabricius is the same as his Cybele, only we believe that he 
has described the male from nature under the name of Aphrodite, and the female 
under the name of Cybele from the figure of Cramer.” The figure in Boisduval 
and LeConte is that of Cybele female. 
The Daphnis of Cramer represents neither Cybele nor Aphrodite. The fore 
wings are too narrow and pointed for either. The color and markings of upper 
surface are nearest Aphrodite ; the under side of hind wings is also nearest Aphro- 
dite in the basal color, but it has the immaculate yellow band of Cybele. 
Godart says “ Cybele has the outer row of silver spots separated from the next 
by a pale transverse sinuous band, broad in the female, very narrow in the male;” 
of Aphrodite, “that it has a yellow band posteriorly,” thus confusing the two spe- 
cies and the sexes of one ; inasmuch as Cybele in both sexes has a broad yellow 
band, and Aphrodite a narrow one, usually so encroached on by the basal color as 
not improperly to be called a “sinuous” band, but if anything, broad in the male, 
narrow in the female. Godart adds, “we find it (Aphrodite) very similar to Cy- 
bele.” 
In Harris’ Insects of Mass. 2d ed. 1862, Aphrodite is described as being 
“tawny yellow in the males, ochre yellow in the females,” which applies pretty 
well to Cybele, but not at all to Aphrodite. The figure given is Aphrodite female. 
Cybele is not mentioned by Dr. Harris as found in New England. 
In Westwood and Humphrey’s British Butterflies is a general description and 
a figure of what is called an Aphrodite, an American insect, on one occasion taken 
in England. It is certainly not to be recognised as Aphrodite or any other Ame- 
rican species. The text says, “there are several very closely allied American spe- 
cies including the present, if indeed they are not merely varieties of each other.” 
Kirby (Fauna Bor.) describes Aphrodite at length, and his description is 
copied in Morris, (Syn. Lep. N. Am.) He gives Aphrodite as synonymous with 
Cybele. I have followed this description carefully, with specimens of both in 
hand, and am unable to determine which he describes. He says, “primary wings 
‘tawny orange ’ — at the posterior margin is a deep orange band edged with black 
