ARGYNNIS I. 



ARGYNNIS EURYNOME, 1-4. 



Aryynnis Eurijnome (Eu-r)-n'-o-iiu'), Edward?, Trans. Am. Eiit. Soc. Vol. IV., p. G8, 1872. 



Primaries slightly arched, produced apically, the hind margins straight or 

 convex. 



Male. — Expands 1.7 to 2 inches. 



Upper side bright yellow-fulvous, little obscured at base ; the hind margins 

 edged by two fine lines between which the fulvous space is very narrow ; some- 

 times these lines broaden and are confluent ; the sub-marginal spots lunular, con- 

 fluent, and inclosing fulvous spaces of the ground color ; the rounded spots small ; 

 across the disks a delicate zigzag band, rarely on secondaries broken into separate 

 lunular spots ; the cellular inscriptions on jjrimaries include an angular inverted P, 

 a wavy ti*ansverse central btu', and two similar bars which form the sides of a 

 sub-quadrate spot ; two small spots in the interspaces below the cell ; the basal 

 area of secondaries immaculate, the discal spot like the letter C ; fringes luteous, 

 largely black at the ends of the nervules on primaries, and slightly next inner 

 angle of secondaries. 



Under side of primaries pale bufl', with a cinnamon-brown tint at base and 

 along the nervules, especially the branches of median, the middle of each inter- 

 space showing a narrow strip of the ground color ; the sub-marginal mostly sil- 

 vered, and two or three silver spots anterior to these next costa. 



Secondaries yellow-buff; the basal area and disk mottled with j^ale ferruginous, 

 and often with more or less of olivaceous ; the band between the two outer rows 

 of spots broad, clear yellow-buff'; the spots all well silvered ; those of the sub- 

 marginal row seri'ated, of the second mostly long oval ; the first and fifth equal, 

 the second, third, and sixth, narrower but equally long, the fourth minute, the 

 seventh lunate, all slightly edged with black above, and all projecting olivaceous 

 shadows on the band ; in the third row are three spots, the first and third lunu- 

 lar, the second sub-quadrate ; there is also a dash in this row. on inner margin ; 

 in the cell one or two rounded spots, below the cell a Jong oval; all these lightly 



