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ARGYNNIS II 



ARGYNNIS MEADII, 1-4. 



Argynnis Memlii, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, Vol. IV. p. 67, 1872. 



Primaries slightly arched, but little produced, straight on hind margin. 



Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Upper side deep yellow-fulvous, but little obscured at base ; hind margins bor- 

 dered by two fine parallel lines, inclosing throughout a narrow fulvous space ; 

 upon these rest a confluent series of black spots, those next, the apices lunate, the 

 remainder sen'ate ; the rounded extra-discal sjjots of medium size ; the mesial 

 band narrow, confluent on secondaries; in the cell of primaries, the usual inscrip- 

 tions ; at the origin of lower branch of median a black mark, and below, in next 

 interspace, a sagittate spot ; the discal spot on secondaries an inverted C ; the 

 second row of silver spots indicated by a space slightly paler than the ground ; 

 fringes of primaries almost AvhoUy fuscous, there being merely a little luteous 

 in the middle of each interspace, of secondaries wholly luteous, except a few 

 black hairs at the end of the posterior nervules. 



Under side of primaries pale cinnamon-brown at base and along the nervures 

 of the disk, the remainder light buff, except that the apical area and hind margin 

 are yellow-green; the five upper sub-marginal spots well silvered, as also the 

 three sub-apical spots. Secondaries wholly of a glos.sy golden-green, a buff sub- 

 color showing along the middle of the band between the two outer rows of spots ; 

 all the spots well silvered ; of the seven sub-marginal, the first is sub-ovate, the 

 next two serrate, the three following broad and sharply serrate, and the last sub- 

 lunate, all completely edged with black ; those of second row are mostly long 

 oval, the first, second, and sixth of equal Ijreadth, the tliird narrower, the fifth 

 broader than the first, the fourth a point, the seventh irregular, all heavily 

 edged with black above and lightly elsewhere ; of the third row, the first is 

 nearly round, tlie second minute, the third trapezoidal, the other two dashes, all 

 edged above with black ; in the cell two rounded spots in black circles, a long oval 

 in sub-median interspace, and a dash at base of sub-costal ; shoulder and inner 

 margin lightly silvered. 



