ARGYNNIS VIII. 



ARGYNNIS ADIANTE, 1-3. 



Argynnis Adiante, Boisduval, Lep. de la C'al., p. 61. 1869. 



Male. — Expands from 2.3 to 2.4 inches. 



Upper side red-fulvous, lightly dusted with brown at base ; marked and spotted 

 with black after the usual manner of the group ; hind margins bordered by two 

 parallel lines, resting on which, on primaries, are small serrated spots ; on 

 secondaries the corresponding spots are lunate, and most or all fail to reach tlie 

 lines ; the rounded spots very small on both wings ; the other markings as in 

 the group, but slight, and on secondaries extremely so, the mesial band being 

 reduced to little more than a line, often macular; fringes yellowish, fuscous at 

 the ends of the nervules on both wings. 



Under side of primaries pale fulvous over basal area, and along- inner margin, 

 taking in the basal half of the cell, and half the remainder along and next the 

 median nervure : on this part of the wing the black markings are repeated, 

 reduced ; the rest of cell, and a space beyond cell on the subcostal and upper 

 median interspaces yellow-buff, the apical area pale brown-buff ; the markings 

 obliterated. 



Secondaries have the basal area to the inner side of the second row of spots 

 pale brown-buff, limited without by a faint brown stripe, corresponding to the 

 mesial stripe of upper side, the hind margin bordered by same color ; the rest of 

 the wing — the extra-discal area — pale yellow-buff ; the spots, which in most 

 species are silvered, are here entirely without silver, yellow-buff in color, faintly 

 edged with brown on the basal side. 



Body above and below concolored with the basal part of the wings ; legs red- 

 dish ; palpi yellow, with red hairs in front ; antennae fuscous above, ferruginous 

 below ; club black, tip ferruginous (Figs. 1, 2). 



Female. — Expands 2.3 to 2.6 inches. 



Both sides as in the male, and the markings similar ; in some examples the 



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