LEPIDOPTEKA— NYMPHALIDAE— AKGYNNIS NAUSICAA. 75o 



Upper side deep-red fulvous on primaries, brig-litest on outer limb of 

 secondaries, much obscured on basal area of each wing, but especially on 

 secondaries, the dark portion reaching quite to the mesial band ; hind mar- 

 gins edged by two heavy parallel lines, inclosing very narrow fulvous 

 spaces throughout, divided by the black nervules ; the submarginal lunules 

 large, not touching the marginal lines, and inclosing spots of the ground 

 color, except at apex of primaries, where they are paler ; the rounded spots 

 large ; the mesial band heavy, confluent on secondaries ; the marks in cell 

 of primaries as in the allied species ; on disk of secondaries a mark like the 

 letter C inverted ; fringes fulvous, fuscous at ends of nervules. 



Under side of primaries almost wholly cinnamon-red, there being but 

 a ferruginous patch near apex and buff in the middle of the subcostal inter- 

 spaces ; the markings repeated ; the submarginal lunules black, the upper 

 ones edged above by buff; the four or five inclosed spots next apex lightly 

 silvered. Secondaries dark ferruginous, mottled very slightly with buff; 

 the band between the two outer rows of spots clear buff, narrow, much 

 encroached on by the ground color ; all the spots well silvered ; those of 

 the outer row long, narrow next inner angle, lunular, and broad on the 

 upper half of the wing, all edged anteriorly by ferruginous ; of the second 

 row, the first and fifth are largest and equal, long semi-oval, the sixth same 

 shape, one-half the size of the fifth ; the second and third equal, long, and 

 narrow ; the fourth minute ; the seventh sublimate, all edged anteriorly by 

 black; the third row of three spots sublimate, edged with black, in the 

 cell two round spots, and below cell an oval, all ringed with black ; a silver 

 spot in subcostal interspace ; the shoulder and inner margin lightly silvered. 



Body dark fulvous, beneath gray fulvous on thorax; the abdomen buff; 

 legs buff; palpi buff at sides, fulvous in front and at tip; antenna? fuscous 

 above, fulvous below ; club black ; tip ferruginous. 



Female. — Same size. Upper side deep fulvous, less obscured at base ; 

 the marginal lines on primaries confluent, and the lunules large, resting on 

 the lines ; the inclosed spots whitish next apex. 



Under side of primaries as in the male, except that the upper outer 



part of cell is buff as well as the subcostal interspaces ; on the ferruginous 

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