ARGYNNIS III. 



ARGYNNIS BISCHOFFII, 1-4. 



Argijnnis BiscJioffii, Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. III. p. 189, 1870. 



Primaeies short, slightly arched, the hind raargins convex. 



Male. — Expands 1.8 inch. 



Upper side fulvous ; the base of primaries and the inner half of secondaries 

 densely obscured by purple-tinted black, so as to conceal tliQ markings ; both 

 wings have broad black marginal borders, either crenated or erose on the inner 

 side, and inclosing a series of small fulvous spots ; often these are nearly or 

 quite obsolete on the posterior half of primaries ; the other markings much as 

 in Eurynome ; fringes luteous. 



Under side of primaries with a faint fulvous tint at base and over the median 

 interspaces; the apical area pale ochraceous, and often immaculate; often also 

 tlie sub-marginal lunules are wanting or represented by a few brown scales only ; 

 but in some examples these lunules are distinct throughout. 



Secondaries buff washed with ochraceous, mottled on the basal area with 

 grayish-green, and sometimes with reddish-brown on the middle of the disk ; the 

 band between the outer I'ows of spots buff; the sub-marginal spots broad, ser- 

 rated ; of the second row, the first three are nearly equal, sub-ovate, the fourth 

 minute, the fifth ovate, larger than the first, the sixth ovate, small, the 

 seventh irregular ; in the third row are three spots and in the cell two ; also 

 one in the interspace above cell. Individuals differ much in respect to silver- 

 ing, the larger proportion of males examined being wholly without silver, the 

 spots buff, while in the females " silvered spots predominate ; in many cases also 

 where there is au absence of silver, the sub-marginal spots of secondaries, as 

 well as of primaries, are nearly obsolete. 



Body black, with fulvous hairs, beneath gray-fulvous ; legs and palpi fulvous ; 

 antennte brown above, fulvous below ; club black, tip ferruginous. 



Female. — Expands 1.9 inch. 



The basal half of primaries and almost the whole of secondaries obscured, to 



