Part 14 (1/2)

_Early Stages._--Unknown.

_Callippe_ is abundant in California.

(30) =Argynnis nevadensis=, Edwards, Plate X, Fig. 4, ?, _under side_ (The Nevada Fritillary).

_b.u.t.terfly_, ?.--The ground-color is pale fulvous, but little obscured with fuscous at the base. The outer margins are heavily bordered with black. The dark markings of the discal area are not heavy. The fore wings on the under side are pale buff, the spots well silvered; the hind wings are greenish; the belt is narrow and clear, and the spots are large and well silvered.

?.--The female is much like the male, but larger and paler. The outer margin of the fore wings in this s.e.x is more heavily marked with black, and the marginal spots are light buff in color. Expanse, ?, 2.50-3.00 inches; ?, 3.00-3.50 inches.

_Early Stages._--These remain to be discovered.

This species is found in the Rocky Mountains of Utah, Nevada, Montana, and British America.

(31) =Argynnis meadi=, Edwards, Plate XIV, Fig. 1, ?; Fig. 2, ?, _under side_ (Mead's Silver-spot).

_b.u.t.terfly._--This species is very closely allied to the preceding, of which it may be an extreme variation, characterized by the darker color of the fore wings on the upper side, the nervules being heavily bordered with blackish, and the deeper, more solid green of the under side of the wings. All the specimens I have seen are considerably smaller in size than _A. nevadensis_.

_Early Stages._--Wholly unknown.

This species or variety is found from Utah northward to the province of Alberta, in British America.

(32) =Argynnis edwardsi=, Reakirt, Plate XI, Fig. 4, ?; Fig. 5, ?

(Edwards' Fritillary).

_b.u.t.terfly._--This beautiful insect is closely related to the Nevada Fritillary, from which it may be distinguished by the brighter color of the upper side, the heavier black borders, especially in the female s.e.x, and the olive-brown color of the under side of the hind wings. The olivaceous of these wings greatly encroaches upon the marginal belt.

Expanse, 3.00-3.25 inches.

_Early Stages._--These have been carefully and minutely described by Edwards in the ”Canadian Entomologist,” vol. xx, p. 3. They are not unlike those of _A. atlantis_ in many respects.

This species is not uncommon in Colorado and Montana.

(33) =Argynnis liliana=, Henry Edwards, Plate XIII, Fig. 11, ? (Liliana).

_b.u.t.terfly_, ?.--The wings on the upper side are reddish-fulvous. The black markings and the spots are slight. The fore wings on the under side are yellowish-buff; the base and the hind margin to below the cell, brown, with buff on the median inters.p.a.ces. The outer end of the cell is yellowish-buff. The subapical patch is brown, adorned by two or three well-silvered spots. The five upper marginal spots are well silvered.

The hind wings are brown, but little mottled with buff. The spots are well silvered. The marginal belt is narrow, ochreous-brown.

?.--The female is much paler than the male, and the marginal spots on both wings are much lighter. On the under side the wings are as in the male s.e.x, with the basal area and the nervules of the fore wings red.

Expanse, ?, 2.20 inches; ?, 2.35 inches.

_Egg._--W.H. Edwards gives the following description: ”Conoidal, truncated, depressed at summit, marked vertically by twenty-two or twenty-three ribs, which are as in other species of the genus; the outline of this egg is much as in _eurynome_, the base being broad, the top narrow, and the height not much more than the breadth; color yellow.”

_Caterpillar._--The same author has given us a description of the caterpillar immediately after hatching; but as the young larvae were lost after being sent to Maine to be kept over winter we do not yet know the full life-history.

The range of this species is northern California and Utah, so far as is known at present.

(34) =Argynnis rupestris=, Behr, Plate XII, Fig. 8, ?. Fig. 9, ?, _under side_ (The Cliff-dwelling Fritillary).

_b.u.t.terfly_, ?.--The upper side of the fore wings is deep reddish-fulvous, with the black markings very heavy. The fore wings on the under side are buff, shaded with red at the base and on the inner margin. The spots are buff, without any silver. The hind wings are buff, mottled with cinnamon-red, sometimes dark, sometimes lighter. The marginal belt is narrow, buff, encroached upon by the darker color of the median area at the ends of the oval spots. None of the spots is silvered, except very lightly in exceptional cases.

?.--The female is much like the male on the upper side, with the dark markings much heavier, the ground-color somewhat paler, and the marginal row of spots quite light. The wings on the under side are more brightly tinted than in the male, and the marginal spots are more or less silvered. Expanse, ?, 2.00 inches; ?, 2.20 inches.