ARGYNNIS II. 
Body above fulvous; below, the thorax gray-buff, abdomen buff; legs fulvous; 
palpi white, furnished in front with long fulvous hairs which are black at tips; 
antennse fuscous above, fulvous below; club black, tip fulvous. 
Female. — Same size. 
Color pale; the sub-marginal spots in both wings lighter than the ground, as 
are also the spots on disk of secondaries corresponding to the second silver row; 
the marginal lines confluent and the connecting lunules heavy, especially on 
secondaries; in other respects like the male. 
This species was discovered by Mr. T. L. Mead, who took a single male in per¬ 
fect condition, at Turkey Creek Junction, Colorado, in June, 1873. Subsequently 
several specimens of both sexes were brought in by the Yellowstone expedi¬ 
tion under Dr. Hayden, from Montana. In 1874, another male was sent me with 
a few butterflies taken by Mr. W. R. Pywell, along the line of the Northern 
Pacific Railroad west of Bismarck. 
Meadii has been surmised to be a possible variety of Edwardsii, but it seems 
to me the differences between them are too considerable and persistent to admit 
such relationship. Meadii is of medium size, the primaries scarcely at all pro¬ 
duced, the color deep. On the under side the basal area of primaries is pale 
cinnamon-brown, and the green on both wings is golden, with a gloss like satin, 
very difficult to represent sufficiently on the Plate. Edwardsii is one of our 
largest species, with long and tapering primaries, and its color is bright and clear 
beyond all others. The green of the under side is not of a lively shade, but is 
either brownish or olivaceous, and the basal area of primaries is fulvous to fiery- 
red in the two sexes. 
