ARGYNNIS VI. 



ARGYNNIS RHODOPE, 1- 



Argynnis Rhodope (Rhod'o-pe), Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. 1874, p. 13. 



Primaries of mediuiu width, moderately arched, straight on hind margin. 



Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Upper side deep red-fulvous, the basal area of each wing up to the mesial band 

 dark broA^Ti ; hind margins edged by two heavy, parallel, blatk lines, sometimes 

 confluent, on which rest a series of lunules which inclose narrow, sub-ovate, ful- 

 vous spots ; the preceding rounded spots small ; other markings as in the allied 

 species, 1>ut heavy throughout ; the mesial band on secondaries confluent ; the 

 discal spot on same wing oval, with a narrow, fulvous sinus ; beyond this spot to 

 base, the ground in the cell, and for some distance on either side of the cell, is 

 black, partially covered by brown scales ; along the inner edge of the mesial 

 baud above median nervure are fulvous spots in the interspaces ; fringes alter- 

 nately luteous and black, the latter prevailing on primaries. 



Under side of primaries dark ferruginous along the entire hind margin and 

 apex quite up to the line of rounded spots ; sometimes the basal area and inner 

 margin are of same hue, hut in other cases are paler ; the sub-costal and discoi- 

 dal interspaces j^ellow, as is also much of cell ; the spots inclosed in the sub-mar- 

 ginal lunations small, and the upper five or six either yellow Avith a few silver 

 scales, or well silvered ; on costal margin three sub-apical spots on a patch of 

 reddish-brown, also either yellow or silvered, differing in individuals. 



Secondaries uniform deep red-ferruginous from base to margin, except that 

 sometimes there is a narrow pale space between the two outer rows of spots, as 

 of a yellow sub-color washed with red ; also in some cases the middle of wing, 

 next anterior to the second row, is much covered with black ; the marginal 

 spots well silvered, narrow, elongated, lunular ; those of second row nearly equal 

 in size, excepting the fourth, which is minute ; the first three, fifth, and sixth 

 sub-quadrate, the seventh long and narrow, the eighth, on inner margin, nearly 

 obsolete ; all these heavily edged above with black ; the spots of third row 

 small, edged above with black ; in the cell a rounded spot, and at the base of 



