THE MELIT^A BUTTERFLIES. 
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The wings and the feelers of this and the following species 
are proportionally more elongated than in the Idalia and 
Aphrodite butterflies. The Myrina begins to appear.about 
the last of May, and may be found till the end of June; it 
reappears again in August and September. 
Argynnis Bellona, YixhviQin^. Bellona Butterfly. (Figs. 113, 114.) 
Wings tawny above, with two rows of black spots around 
the hind margins, at a distance from which is a row of round 
spots of the same color; from the base to beyond the middle 
Fis- 113. 
Fig. 114. 
tlie wings are covered with blackish spots, running together 
more or less, as in the preceding species ; tips of the fore 
wings beneath, and under side of the hind wings, brownish, 
and glossed with purplish white on the posterior half of the 
latter, which are variegated with dark brown lines and spots. 
Expands from 1| to inch. 
Very closely resembles the Myrina in form and color of 
the upper surface of the wings, but is easily distinguished 
from it by the want of the silvery spots beneath. It is found 
on flowers in the latter part of July. 
The butterflies of the genus Melitcea agree in most re¬ 
spects with those of Argynnis^ except that the under side of 
the hind wings is usually checkered with various colors, but 
not ornamented with silvery or pearly spots. Their cater¬ 
pillars are very different, being covered with blunt tubercles 
beset with very short stiff bristles, and most of them live on 
various kinds of plantain. The chrysalids are of the same 
