. A manual of North American butterflies [microform]. Butterflies; Papillons. NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 53 1'! wing, and the third row of spots, nearly all fused together, Fig, 22, a, and one in cell below the central is heart-shaped and larger. Beneath, the colors are darker than in aphrodite, the apex of fore wings, and all hut ocherous, suh-marginal space (which is as clear as in cybele) on hind wings, are overwashed with dusky. The silver spots of outer row are small; there are only six in the second row, the three upper large, and the remainder small, while within these, arc only six ba


. A manual of North American butterflies [microform]. Butterflies; Papillons. NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 53 1'! wing, and the third row of spots, nearly all fused together, Fig, 22, a, and one in cell below the central is heart-shaped and larger. Beneath, the colors are darker than in aphrodite, the apex of fore wings, and all hut ocherous, suh-marginal space (which is as clear as in cybele) on hind wings, are overwashed with dusky. The silver spots of outer row are small; there are only six in the second row, the three upper large, and the remainder small, while within these, arc only six basal; thus these spottings are reduced nearly, or quite, to the minimum. Sexes, strikingly unlike. Female, dark brown on basal i)ortions of wings above with the usual markings outside of this, but the interspaces are ocher- ous yellow. Beneath, differs from the male, in being more dusky and in having the silver spottings larger. Expands, to ;). Habitat, California, Oregon, Washington Territory, Nevada, and Montana. Fig. .0, Argynnls diana, upiioi Ride liiiid wiiitj: b, Banio A. idalia: c, Icwcr Biilc of sanic; c, apex, fore wing, lower side of same: f, club of aiiteniiae, (enlar;,'fil) same siiocics : d, furo wing, upper side, Colaeuisdelila. 107. ARGYNNIS CYBELE Fab. Yellow-banded Silveu-wixo. Size of A. aphrodite, or averaging a little larger, with the sexes not strikingly dissimilar, but differs in having the basal half of l)Oth wings, dusky, and the three upper, black spots of the third row on hind wings, are fused together, while to these, is often added, the fourth. Beneath, there is no cinnamon red on the base of fore wings; the basal portion of the hind wings is paler; and the ferrugineous does not encroach upon tiie ocherous yellow, between the iirst and second outer rows of silver spots. Expands, to ;>.:!.â â ». IIal)ltat, Atlantic States, and throughout the West to Nebraska, Ontario, Quebec, and Fort Ed- monton, British America. Occurs in


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