LEPIDOPTEKA NYMPHALIDAE ARGYNNIS NAUSICAA. 753 



Upper side deep-red fulvous on primaries, brightest on outer lirnb of 

 secondaries, much obscured on basal area of each wing, but especially on 

 secondaries, the dark portion reaching quite to the mesial band ; hind mar- 

 gins edged by two heavy parallel lines, inclosing very narrow fulvous 

 spaces throughout, divided by the black nervules ; the submarginal lunules 

 large, not touching the marginal lines, and inclosing spots of the ground 

 color, except at apex of primaries, where they are paler ; the rounded spots 

 large ; the mesial band heavy, confluent on secondaries ; the marks in cell 

 of primaries as in the allied species ; on disk of secondaries a mark like the 

 letter C inverted ; fringes fulvous, fuscous at ends of nervules. 



Under side of primaries almost wholly cinnamon-red, there being but 

 a ferruginous patch near apex and buff in the middle of the subcostal inter- 

 spaces ; the markings repeated ; the submarginal lunules black, the upper 

 ones edged above by buff; the four or five inclosed spots next apex lightly 

 silvered. Secondaries dark ferruginous, mottled, very slightly with buff; 

 the band between the two outer rows of spots clear buff, narrow, much 

 encroached on by the ground color; all the spots well silvered ; those of 

 the outer row long, narrow next inner angle, lunular, and broad on the 

 upper half of the wing, all edged anteriorly by ferruginous ; of the second 

 row, the first and fifth are largest and equal, long semi-oval, the sixth same 

 shape, one-half the size of the fifth ; the second and third equal, long, and 

 narrow ; the fourth minute ; the seventh sublunate, all edged anteriorly by 

 black ; the third row of three spots sublunate, edged with black, in the 

 cell two round spots, and below cell an oval, all ringed with black ; a silver 

 spot in subcostal interspace ; the shoulder and inner margin lightly silvered. 



Body dark fulvous, beneath gray fulvous on thorax; the abdomen buff; 

 legs buff; palpi buff at sides, fulvous in front and at tip; antennae fuscous 

 above, fulvous below ; club black ; tip ferruginous. 



Female. Same size. Upper side deep fulvous, less obscxired at base ; 

 the marginal lines on primaries confluent, and the lunules large, resting on 

 the lines ; the inclosed spots whitish next apex. 



Under side of primaries as in the male, except that the upper outer 



part of cell is buff as well as the subcostal interspaces ; on the ferruginous 

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