ARGYNNIS 11. 



ARGYNNIS LAIS, 1-4. 



>4r<7j^nnisZ(iis(La'-is) Edwards, Can. Ent., XV., p. 209, 188.3. 



Male. — Expands 2 inches. 



Upper side bright red-fulvous, somewhat obscured at base ; both wings bor- 

 dered by two parallel lines, the spaces between cut by the black nervules ; the 

 markings as in the allied species, but all slight ; the common discal band broken 

 into spots, which, on secondaries, are very small ; fringes yellow-white, black at 

 ends of nervules. 



Under side of primaries cinnamon-red, paler next inner angle, the apical area 

 buff' ; the upper sub-marginal spots enclose silver and there are two or three silver 

 spots on the sub-apical patch. 



Secondaries from base to outer side of the second row of spots dark brown mot- 

 tling a 3^ellowish ground ; the belt beyond these spots pale yellow ; all the spots 

 small and well silvered, the outer row sub-crescent, the second row mostly oval. 



Body above fulvous, beneath pale fulvous with many graj- hairs ; legs fulvous ; 

 palpi same, with black hairs at sides ; antennas black above, fulvous below, club 

 black, ferruginous at tip. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



Female. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Upper side less bright, the base more obscured ; the markings all heavier ; the 

 marginal lines more or less confluent on primaries ; the discal band, in many 

 examples, connected on primaries, but on secondaries as in the male. 



Under side as in the male. (Figs. 3, 4.) 



This pretty species is found in N. W. Terr., and was discovered by Captain 

 Gamble Geddes, in 1883, at Edmonton, early in July. It was common and asso- 

 ciated with Cyhele. In 1884, Captain Geddes took it at Calgarry, in the foot-hills, 

 flying with Atlantis. Also at Morley, in Kicking-horse Pass, in July and begin- 

 ning of August, and at Laggan, at the summit of same Pass. 



