ARGYNNIS III. 



ARGYNNIS LILIANA, 1-4. 



Argynins LiUana, Henry Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., VI., 1876. 

 Aberr. Baroni, W. H. Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, IX., 3, 1881. 



Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 



Upper side either deep red-fulvous, or pale, varying ; the black markings as in 

 the allied species, but slight, the spots small ; the mesial band on secondaries con- 

 tinuous ; the fulvous spots on same wings, both marginal and discal, often paler 

 than the ground color ; fringes on both wings yellowish, black at the ends of the 

 nervules. 



Under side of primaries yellow-buff ; the basal area, and to hind margin below 

 median, brown, with buff in the median interspaces ; some examples, however, 

 are red-brown at base, and the nervules are edged red ; the outer half of cell 

 yellow-buff, the P-shaped spot as the base ; the two or three spots on the sub- 

 costal brown patch and the five uppermost marginal spots well silvered, the sixth 

 spot partially so. 



Secondaries brown, very little mottled with buff ; the band narrow, brown- 

 ochre ; the spots large and well silvered ; the sub-marginal triangular, those of 

 second row, except the small ones, fourth and seventh, oval or sub-oval, narrowly 

 edged black on basal side ; of third row, the three spots are oval, pyriform, and 

 crescent, with intermediate dashes of silver in some examples, and a streak on 

 inner margin, also edged black ; a round spot in cell and three at base ; shoulder 

 and inner margin well silvered. 



Body above covered with red-brown hairs ; below, the thorax with hairs which 

 are gray at base, yellow to reddish without ; abdomen buff ; legs red and buff ; 

 palpi yellow at base, red without and at tip ; antennae pale black above, red- 

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



