The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North AmericaHolland, W. J. (William Jacob)
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The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America
Holland, W. J. (William Jacob)
Butterflies -- North America
♀.--The female does not differ materially from the male, except that
the dark markings on the upper side are all much heavier, standing out
very distinctly upon the paler ground, and the marginal spots within the
lunules are very light in color and relatively large. On the under side
the fore wings are laved with red, very much as in the female of _A.
adiante._ Expanse, ♂, 1.75-2.00 inches; ♀, 2.00-2.15 inches.
_Early Stages._--These still remain to be ascertained.
This interesting butterfly, which seems to indicate a transition between
the butterflies of the Adiante-group and those of the Eurynome-group,
has been found in Colorado, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona.
(42) =Argynnis clio=, Edwards, Plate XIV, Fig. 5, ♂; Fig. 6, ♀; Fig. 7,
♂, _under side_ (Clio).
_Butterfly._--Closely resembling _A. eurynome_ and _A. artonis_. Like
_artonis_, the spots on the under side of the wing are without silver.
The female very closely resembles the female of _artonis_, and in fact I
am unable to distinguish the types of the females of the two species by
any marks which seem to be satisfactory. Expanse, ♂, 1.75 inch; ♀,
1.75-1.90 inch.
_Early Stages._--Unknown.
This species, which is as yet comparatively rare in collections, is
found in Montana and the province of Alberta, in British America, at a
considerable elevation.
(43) =Argynnis opis=, Plate XIV, Fig. 8, ♂, _under side_ (Opis).
_Butterfly._--This species, which apparently belongs to the
Eurynome-group, appears by the location of its markings to be closely
related to _eurynome_, but on the upper side the wings of both the male
and female are more heavily obscured with fuscous at the base; the dark
markings are heavier than in _eurynome_, and in both sexes it is smaller
in size, being the smallest of all the species of the genus thus far
found in North America. The spots on the under side of the wings are
none of them silvered. Expanse, ♂, 1.50 inch; ♀, 1.60 inch.
_Early Stages._--Nothing is known of these.
The types came from Bald Mountain, in the Caribou mining district of
British Columbia.
(44) =Argynnis bischoffi=, Edwards, Plate XI, Fig. 7, ♂ (Bischoff's
Fritillary).
_Butterfly_, ♂.--The fore wings on the upper side are bright
reddish-fulvous, the base of the primaries and the inner half of the
secondaries being heavily obscured by blackish, so as to conceal the
markings. Both wings have moderately heavy black marginal borders. The
other markings are as in _A. eurynome_. On the under side the fore wings
are buff, laved with reddish at the base. The hind wings are pale buff,
with the basal and discal areas mottled with green. The marginal belt is
clear buff. In some specimens the spots on the under side are not
silvered; in others they are well silvered.
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