ARGYNNIS IX. 



ARGYNNIS EGLEIS, 1-5. 



Arf/t/nrris Egleis (Eg-le'-is), Boisduval, Lep. de la Californie, p. 59, 1869. 

 " No. 5," Behr, Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., II., p. 174, 1862. 

 Montivaga, Edw., Syn., 1872 (not Behr). 

 9 Mormonia, Bois., 1. c, p. 58. 



Male. — Expands 1.8 to 2 inches. 



Upper side bright fulvous, a Httle obscured at base ; marked and spotted as in 

 the alhed species ; double lines along hind margins, the mesial band on second- 

 aries continuous and all the markings of both wings light; fringes of primaries 

 alternately fulvous and black, or nearly all black, with a little fulvous in middle 

 of each interspace, of secondaries, either wholly fulvous, or with black just at 

 ends of nervules. 



Under side of primaries yellow-buff apically, pale red at base and to hind mar- 

 gin below median, or just at base, and along the median nervules, in which last 

 case the interspaces are buff ; the black markings repeated ; the sub-marginal 

 spots either buff altogether, or the upper four and the two on the brown sub- 

 costal patch are imperfectly silvered. 



Secondaries yellow-buff, the belt between the two outer rows of spots clear 

 colored and immaculate ; the remainder of wins; to base washed with diluted 

 brown, through which the yellow ground appears more or less clearly ; the sub- 

 marginal spots narrow, and sometimes well silvered ; the other spots as in the 

 allied species, but small, never, so far as observed, perfectly silvered, but varying 

 much in this point ; the spots of second and third rows rather heavily edged with 

 black on the basal side. 



But many examples are reddish-buff on under side, and the brown on second- 

 aries is darker than in the type. 



Body brown above, with long fulvous hairs, buff below ; legs fulvous and buff ; 

 palpi fulvous ; antenniE black above, fulvous beneath ; club black, tip ferrugi- 

 nous. (Figs. 1, 2.) 



