ARGYNNIS I. 



cell, an oval, both ringed with black ; a silver patch at base of cell, and another 

 at base of sub-costal interspace ; shoulder and inner margin lightly silvered. 



Body above fulvous, beneath same with many black and gray hairs ; legs 

 fulvous ; palpi same, buff at the sides ; antennie fuscous above, fulvous below ; 

 club black, the tip fulvous or ferruginous. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands 3 to 3.25 inches. 



Upper side blackish-brown, darker than female JSfohomis, the black markings 

 from base to middle of disk nearly lost in the dark ground ; the light spots as in 

 Nokomis, and of a pale yellow color, except the small sub-marginal, which are 

 whitish ; the light spots of secondaries narrower than in most examples of Noko- 

 mis, owing to the broad edging of brown upon each nervule; they are also much 

 dusted brown, particularly on the basal portion. 



Under side of primaries deeper red than in the male, the sub-apical area 

 clearer yellow. Secondaries of a darker brown, dusted ferruginous next base, the 

 belt of a brighter yellow, divided into spots by the broad edging of the nervules; 

 the silver spots generally as in the male. (Figs. 5, 6.) 



I have not seen a male other than the one in my collection. This was taken 

 in the White Mountains, northeast Arizona, in 1873, by Lieut. Henshaw, of the 

 exploring expedition under Lieut. Wheeler. 



Several females have been taken in Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada. Probably 

 the species will be found in abundance in some of the valleys of southwest Colo- 

 rado, and south Utah. 



