ARGYNNIS 11. 



ARGYXNIS CYBELE. 



Argi/nnis Cyhdc (Cyb'-e-lc), Fabricius, Ent. Sjst. Ill, 44J. Godart, Enc. Meth. IX, 203. 

 Boisduval and licCouto, 151. Daphnis? Cramer, plate 57. 



Primaries broad, strongly arched, slightly concave on hind margin. 



Male. Expands 3 inches. 



Upper side fulvous, inclining to luteous, brown at base ; whole surface marked 

 and spotted with black ; 2)rimaries edged by a narrow line, preceded by a second, 

 heavier and 2:>arallel, upon which rests a series of connected lunules, each enclosing 

 a rounded fulvous spot; the clear fulvous space between the lines cut into spots by 

 the black nervules; beyond the lunules a row of large round spots, a bar on costa, 

 and a heavy zig-zag median band; outside the cell a sjwt shaped like the letter P' 

 inverted, inclosing a fulvous space; three sinuous bars across the cell. 



Secondaries have the submarginal line only, and a series of detached uncon- 

 nected crescents; a roAV of small rounded spots and a median band of irregular 

 spots, crescent or rectangular, almost obsolete on the abdominal margin but expand- 

 ing largely near costa in the direction of the base; on the arc a spot like the let- 

 ter S; nervures black only from the submarginal line to edge; fringes yellowish 

 at the emarginations, black at tijjs of nervules. 



Under side of primaries jiale yellowish-brown, the apical space yellowish and 

 enclosing a bright brown patch on costal margin ; the hind margin has a broad 

 border of same color, except at the extremities, where it is yellowish ; resting on the 

 border next inner angle are three lanceolate lilack spots, beyond these, to a2:)ex, five 

 others, brown; all enclosing yellowish spaces, those next apex slightlv, if at all, 

 sjM'inkled with silver scales; on the j^atch are three silver sjiots; the black markings 

 of ujiper surface relocated. 



Secondaries have the Ijasal two-thirds red-1)rown, more or less mottled with 

 yellow; hind margin brown, fading into yellow near anal angle; the space between 

 the two outer rows of silver spots bright yellow and immaculate, making a conspi- 

 cuous band, characteristic of the species; th'e silver spots are twenty-four or twentv- 

 five in number, viz: seven large dentate upon the border, all edged above with 

 brown; a second row of eight irregular, the eighth, a stripe on the margin, often 

 wanting; a third row of five or six, the first lunulate, the second minute, the third 

 minute, often wanting, the fourth pyriform, cut by the arc, the fifth and sixth 

 streaks ; next two round spots in the cell, a third below the median and two at the 

 junction of the nervures above ; the shoulder broadly silvered ; abdominal margin 

 lightly ; all these spots, except the marginal row, the last on third row and the two 



