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of primaries red over a large part of the wing, the upper outer corner 

 only of cell being buff; the spots well silvered, the submarginal being 

 usually limited to upper half the wing, as in the male, but examples occur 

 in which silver is found down to lower median nervule. 



Secondaries sometimes wholly fawn-color, except that the band has a 

 tint only of yellow ; in other examples the ground is darker, more brown, 

 and the band is more distinct ; all spots well silvered, those of the outer 

 row sub-crescent and broad, of second row mostly large, and egg-shaped ; 

 the spots are closely as in Coronis and Callippe. 



From San Bernardino, California, taken by Mr. W. G. Wright. I have 

 seen upwards of 30 examples of this species, male and female, and the 

 characters are very constant. It is curious how the markings resemble 

 two such different species as Adiante (upper side) and Coronis (lower 

 side). 



2. Argynnis cypris. 



Male. — Expands 2.8 to 3 inches ; size of Aicestis, which it closely 

 resembles. Upper side bright fulvous, scarcely at all obscured by brown 

 at base ; the black markings light ; both wings bordered by a double line, 

 the submarginal lunules touching it only at apex of primaries ; the round 

 spots small ; the mesial band of secondaries represented by narrow and 

 small crescents ; the spot in cell more like figure 2 than letter S ; fringes 

 black at ends of nervules, yellowish in the interspaces. 



Under side of primaries nearly all cinnamon-red, only the upper outer 

 corner of cell and the interspaces next beyond being buff; apex and hind 

 margin brown, the latter shading into the red of wing towards inner angle ; 

 the lower three or four submarginal spots sharply serrated, black, the rest 

 same brown as the margin, and not defined ; these last only enclosing 

 spots which are imperfectly silvered ; on the sub-apical patch three well 

 silvered spots. 



Under side of secondaries light ferruginous-brown from base to farther 

 side the second row of spots, mottled a little with reddish buff; the mar- 

 gin and the shadows over the outer spots same brown ; the band reddish 

 buff, much encroached on by the brown ground on either side, after the 

 manner of Aphrodite, and more or less sprinkled with brown scales ; the 

 spots rather small, and well-silvered ; the marginal row sub-triangular, 

 sometimes broad, sometimes quite narrow ; the spots of second row mostly 

 egg-shaped ; and these as well as the next row are edged on basal side 



