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form as tliose of Argynnis, and spotted with black or brown, 
but are not ornamented with golden spots. 
Melitaea Phaeton, Drury. Phaeton Butterfly. (Fig. 115.) 
Wings black, with a row of orange-red crescents around 
the hind margin, 
within which are 
from two to four 
rows of cream-col- 
ored spots ; on the 
fore wings, behind 
the middle of the 
front margin, are 
two orange-red spots, and sometimes another of the same 
color on the middle of the hind wings. All the wings are 
black beneath, and spotted in the same way as on the 
upper side, with the addition of several large orange-red and 
pale yellow spots between the middle and the base ; the 
abdomen has three rows of cream-colored dots on the top. 
Expands from 2 to 2£ inches or more. 
This species is rare in Massachusetts ; it appears in low 
grounds in June. The wings are elongated, as in Argynnis 
Myrina , but the feelers are short. 
Melitcea Ismeria ? Boisduval. Ismcria Butterfly. 
Wings tawny above, blotched with blackish narrow spots 
at the base, the fore wings blackish on the hind margins and 
tips ; the hind wings veined and edged with black, with a 
row of black crescents near the hind border, next to which 
is a row of round black dots ; body covered with white down 
beneath ; under side of the wings ochre-yellow, with a row 
of pale yellow crescents edged with black near the hind 
margin ; the rest of the surface of the fore wings variegated 
with small black and large yellowish spots ; next to the 
external row of crescents of the hind wings is a row of 
yellowish dots encircled with black, across the middle a 
tig. 116. 
