64 WM. H. EDWARDS. 



ondaries have on the arc a heavy black spot like the letter C inverted, 

 connected with the mesial band by a black bar that crosses the lower 

 sub-costal interspace ; fringes yellowish, black at tips of nervules. 



Under side of primaries red-fulvous next base and over inner margin 

 ferruginous along the nervules, pale buff apically ; spots as above ; the 

 ferruginous sub-apical patch encloses two or three imperfectly silvered 

 spots; the marginal spot also imperfectly silvered; the black lunules 

 replaced by ferruginous. Secondaries ferruginous from base to out- 

 side the second row of spots ; space between this and first rows pale 

 buff, somewhat irrorated posteriorly with ferruginous ; the seven mar- 

 ginal silver spots narrow, sub-triangular, edged above with ferruginous; 

 the seven of second row are each narrowly edged with black, the first 

 three nearly equal, the fourth minute, the fifth large, sub-rotund, the 

 sixth sub-rectangular, the seventh lunate; in the third row, each edged 

 with black, the first and third nearly equal, lunate, the second sub- 

 pyriform, cut by the ferruginous arc ; in cell a small round spot, and 

 three spots at origin of nervures; shoulder well silvered; abdominal 

 margin slightly. 



Body black covered with fulvous hairs, beneath grey-fulvous; legs 

 buff; palpi buff, fulvous in front, fuscous at tip; antennae fuscous 

 above, fulvous below ; club black, fulvous at tip. 



Female. — Expands 2.7 inches. Upper side similar to male, the 

 marginal lines and lunate spots confluent, forming a broad, black band 

 the enclosed fulvous spots much paler than the ground ; black mark- 

 ings heavier than on male, and basal portions still more obscured. 



Under side of primaries fiery-red, ochraceous at apex ; the silver 

 spots distinct, three sub-apical and six or seven marginal ; secondaries 

 ferruginous at base and on disk mottled with ochraceous; the band 

 clear ochraceous ; the silver spots shaped as in male, but larger and 

 well silvered. 



From 2 % , 1 9 . taken on San Juan Island by Dr. Bremner of H. 

 M. Ship Zealous, in 1871, and in the collection of Henry Edwards, Esq. 

 of San Francisco. 



This species is sufficiently unlike any of our Argynnides, and I hardly 

 know which is its nearest ally. In heaviness of the black markings it 

 resembles Monticola, in the beauty of the silvering Cybele, while iu 

 shape of the wings it is like Ralcyone. 



Argynnis Inornata, n. sp. 



Primaries strongly arched, produced apically, straight on hind mar- 

 gin in the male, slightly concave in the female. 



Male. — Expands 2.5 inches. Upper side red fulvous much ob- 



