ARGYNNIS XL 



ARGYNNIS EDWARDSII. 1—4. 



Argynnis Edicardsii, Keakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 18G7. 



Primaries long and uarro\Y, moderately arched ; slightly concave on hind 



gin. 



Male. Expands nearly 3 inches. 



Ui^per side pale fulvous, a little dusky at base, marked and spotted with black; 

 hind margin edged by two fine parallel lines, on which rest a series of connected 

 lunules, which enclose fulvous si:)ots a shade j^aler than the ground color ; other 

 markings as in the allied sijecies, rather more delicate than in most ; a sagittate spot 

 in the submedian intersj^ace near base. 



Secondaries have the extra discal spots small ; a discal band of small separated 

 lunules ; the spot on the arc like the letter C ; fringes luteous in the emargiuati3us. 



Under side of primaries pale reddish fulvous at base and along the posterior 

 nervules; remainder of wing-s light butf, except the apex and hind margin, which 

 are greenish ; the submarginal silver spots are seven in number, triangular, the three 

 posterior ones edged by blackish sagittate spots ; three anterior subapical spots sil- 

 vered, the middle one large, sub-ovate. 



Secondaries pale olivaceous somewhat mottled with buff; the band between 

 the two outer rows of silver spots much encroached on by the ground color, as 

 in Aphrodite ; the silver spots are twenty-four in number ; viz. seven submarginal, 

 large, lunular or sub-triangular, each edged above by olivaceous ; the second row 

 of seven, the fourth minute, the others large, mostly sub-ovate, slightly edged above 

 with black, and below projecting olivaceous shadows on the band ; the third row of 

 five, the first and fourth lunular, the second minute or wanting, the third large, pyri- 

 form, cut by the arc, the fifth a stripe on the margin, all edged above with black ; 

 in the cell one or two rounded spots and three at origin of the ner\Tires ; shoulder 

 and abdominal margin silvered. 



Body above fulvous, below buff; legs and palpi fulvous ; antennae dark brown 

 above, light below ; club black, ferruginous at tip. 



Female. Expands 2.8 inches. Primaries shorter, hind margin straight. 



Upper side obscured by black, much as in Calliope, showing like that species 

 pale lunules within the submarginal spots and a discal roAV of pale spots corres- 

 ponding in shape to the second silvered row of under side ; apex ot jjrimaries 

 also paler than the ground color ; hind margin of primaries broad, blackish, of sec- 

 ondaries similar in color, but of medium width. 



