ARGYNNI8 VI. 



ARGYNNIS CALLIPPE. 1—4. 



Argi/nni's Cctl/ippr, (Cal-lip'-pe ) Boisduval, Ann. Soe. Knt. do France, 2 ser. x. p. 302. 1852. 



Primaries long, narrow, moderately arched, slightly concave on hind margin. 

 Male. Exj^ands 2.3 inches. 



Upper side dull fulvous, very much obscured, the ncrvulcs being broadly edged 

 with black, and inner angles of both wings and three-fourths the surface of second- 

 aries, of same color ; hind margins black, with heavy, confluent dentations ; the 

 discal interspaces of primaries and marginal spots of both wings of a paler fulvous 

 than the ground color, and on secondaries an extra median row of still lighter spots, 

 corresponding to the silver spots of lower surface, each starting from the black 

 median band (which is confluent) and terminating in one of the rounded black 

 spots; other markings of both wings as in the allied sjx'cies ; fringes yellowish, 

 black at tips of nervules. 



Under side of j)riuraries fulvous at 1)ase and along the lower nervures and 

 their branches; costa, outer half of cell and interspaces on the disk clear yellow; 

 the outer limb mixed (»r mottled with fulvous; the submarginal serrations black- 

 ish next inner angle and almost wanting above, enclosing triangular spots more or 

 less silvered ; two silver spots on subapical 2)atcli. 



Secondaries yellow, the basal two-thirds more or less mottled with reddish- 

 brown of a darker shade tlian tliat of i)rimaries ; the band between the outer rows 

 of spots clear yellow, immaculate ; the silver sjiots arc 23 or 24 in number, viz: the 

 marginal row of seven, large, triangular, all eilged above with brown ; the second 

 of eight, the first and fifth obovate, second and third long oval, fourth minute, 

 sixth long and rectangular, seventh and eighth irregular, all edged slightly above 

 with black ; the third row of four or five, the first large, semi-oval, second often 

 wanting, third pyriform, cut by the arc, fifth a streak, the first, third and fourth 

 edged above with lilack ; in the cell one or two small rounded spots, a third, long 

 oval, at base of median, these wholly edged with black ; a silver j^atch at base of 

 costal; shoulder and abdominal margin silvered. 



Body above dark fulvous, beneath, yellow on abdomen, greyish-yellow on thorax ; 

 pal])i grey fulvous ; antennas fulvous ; club black, ferruginous at tij). 

 Female. Expands nearly three inches. 



Color paler, fading to whitish on the disk and in the extra median and mar- 

 ginal spots of secondaries ; the black markings heavier than in the male ; under 

 side paler, but similar to male. 



