ARGYNNIS VII. 



AlUiYNMS HUl'KSTRIS, 1-4. 



Argi/iiuix liupeslrin, Bilir. Prix'. Cal. Acail. Xat. Sci., 18(13, p. 84. Same, work, lSi;2, p. 175, described as 



" No. 6." 



Male. — Expands two inclie.s. 



Priiiiiiries strongly arfhed, niodoratt'ly produced, roundL'd apically ; iiind mar- 

 gin nearly straight. 



Upper side deep red-fulvous, somewhat ol)seured at base -of primaries, and 

 largely on secondaries, the dark portion nearly reaching the mesial band; 

 hind margins bordered l)y two fine parallel lines, on which rest a series of lunules 

 which inclose sjiots of the ground color; the extra-discaf spots rounded, large, 

 e.specially those on the po.sterior half of ])rimaries, and all on secondaries except 

 the one on upper median interspace, which is minute ; the mesial band heavy, 

 and confluent throughout ; the usual inscriptions in cell of primaries, and a 

 sagittate spot in sulj-median interspace ; in the cell of secondaries a spot like an 

 inverted C ; all these marks heavy ; fringes luteous, black at tips of nervules. 



Under side of primaries brick-red at base, bulT over outer part of cell and the 

 apical area ; the median interspaces tinted with red on buff ground ; the mark- 

 ings repeated ; near the apex a .slight ferruginous patch ; the sub-marginal 

 lunules brown, darkest posteriorily, inclosing buff spots without silver ; sec- 

 ondaries cinnamon-red on buff ground, the latter appearing in patches on the 

 disk and in the cell ; the band between the outer rows of spots narrow, buff, en- 

 croached on by the basal color ; the sub-marginal spots light buff, very slightly 

 silvered, long, narrow, edged above by red ; the remaining spots yellow-l>uff, 

 with no silver, each of those of second and third rows edged narrowly above by 

 black ; the second row consists of seven spots, of which the first three and the 

 fifth and sixth are sub-ovate and ecjual, the fourth minute, the seventh sub- 

 lunate ; the third row of three spots ; in the cell two, and an oval at base of 

 lower median interspace, these edged with black ; a patch of buff at base of sub- 

 costal interspace. 



