ARGYxXNIS I. 



AEGYNNIS DIANA. 1 — 1. 



Argi/iinis Diana. S . Cnmier, 11. 4, pi. US. Fab., Ent. Syst. III. 447. Say, Am. Ent. I. 

 pi. 17. Boisduval aud LeConte, p. 140. 9 . Edwards, Proo. p]nt. Soc. Phil, iii, p. 431. (18G4.) 



Male. Exj)aiids o.o iiu'lit's. 



Upjicr side, from the base to beyond middle of wings, dark velvt't-brown ; the 

 outer limb deej:) orange, forming a wide band, crenate within on primaries and cut 

 by the brown shade along the uervures almost to the margin ; both wings edged 

 by a brown line, which is preceded by a second, somewhat indistinct, but consjii- 

 cuous at the crossing of the uervures, especially on primaries, where, at each cross- 

 ing, is a jxitch of brown scales ; upon the orange band a double row of rounded 

 brown spots, the outer one jiartly obsolete, the inner distinct and having the three 

 lower S2)0ts much larger than the others. 



Under side of primaries, next base, black, edged without by a zig-zag line 

 similar to that of Cybele and allied species, the interspaces next within this line 

 of the color of the margin ; tr;insverse patches of same color in the cell ; next the 

 arc an irregular silver bar ; on the costa a few silver scales ; outer limb orange- 

 brown ; the three largest spots of suli-nurrginal row reappear faintly. 



Secondaries have a silky gloss ; tlie l)asal two-thirds a dead-leaf brown ; outer 

 limb same as on primaries, immaculate ; edging the brown space is an interrupted 

 black line, more or less covered by silver scales and terminating, on each margin, 

 in a triangular silver spot; between the costal and sub-costal a silver crescent, edged 

 anteriorly by black; at the junction of same uervures a few silver scales; on the 

 arc an indistinct eyelet of darker brown ; within the margin a continuous hixnd of 

 elongated silver crescents. 



Body above velvet brown, beneath same as secondaries ; legs and palpi same 

 color ; antennae dark brown above, ferruginous below ; club dark brown tipped 

 with ferruginous. 



Female. Expands nearly four inches. 



Upper side black, with blue or green reflections. Primaries have three trans- 

 verse rows or spots ; the marginal small, rounded, white or bluish-white ; the sub- 

 marginal elongated, rectangular, wanting two spots next the costa, bluish-white; 

 the median of irregular blue patches ; a blue patch on the costa ; the two lower 

 sjiots of the submarginal and median united. 



Secondaries have a marginal row of bluish white bars between and reaching 

 to the nervures, the three or four hinder ones broadest aud bisected by a black 

 line ; a bi'oad submarginal metallic blue band, divided by the nervures into oblong 



