ARGYNNIS IV. 



ARGYNNIS NOKOMIS. 



Argynnis Nokomix (Xo-ko'-uiis), Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1862. 



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



Male. — Expands 3.4 inches. 



Upper side uniform fiery fulvous, very little dusky at base; hind margins 

 edged by two parallel black lines, the outer one delicate, the other heavy, the ful- 

 vous spaces between cut into spots by the black nervules; both wings inscribed and 

 spotted with black, more coarsely than in Aphrodiie; tlie rounded spots small; the 

 clear fulvous extra discal space notably broad; the submarginal spots on primaries 

 lunular at apex, otherwise serrate; on secondaries lunular, sejiarated from each 

 other and from the marginal lines; the mesial band of secondaries formed of sepa- 

 rate crescents; the spot on arc like the letter S. 



Under side of primaries bright red at base and on disk, changing to fulvous 

 on outer limb and quite to hind margin ; apical portion golden yellow, the anterior 

 six submarginal spots well silvered; four silvered subai^ical spots, the upper two 

 minute, each on an olivaceous ground, jjosteriorly edged by black scales. 



Secondaries uniform golden yellow from base to margin; the silver spots con- 

 spicuous, the outer row entirely surrounded by black, and all the others heavily 

 edged anteriorly by black ; the seven spots of outer row narrow, elongated except 

 the two at t)uter angle, which are broad and rounded; of the eight spots of second 

 row, the first three from costaand fifth and sixth rounded, the fourth small, seventh 

 lanceolate, the eighth a dash on the margin; the third row of three, large and ir- 

 regular; in cell a round spot in black ring, an oval below, and two spots without 

 edging at origin of upper nervures; costa and abdominal margin lightly silvered. 



Body above fulvous, below buff slightly tinted with fulvous; legs buflf; palpi 

 buff, deep fulvous at tip; anteun* dark brown above, fulvous below; club brown 

 tipped with fulvous. 



Female. — Expands 3.(3 inches. 



Upper side dark chocolate brown, the black markings indistinctly shown; the 

 disks spotted with bright yellow, which takes the form of a common band of spots 

 separated by the black nervules, and very much resembling in shape and distribu- 

 tion the blue spots on Diana female, enclosing in same way as in that species the 

 rounded extra discal black spots; these elongated spots are sometimes tinted slightly 

 with fulvous, esjjecially on primaries, and are much and irregularly irrorated with 



