ARGYNNIS I. 
ARGYNNIS DIANA. 1—4. 
Argynnis Diana. % . Cramer, II. 4, pi. 98. Fab., Ent. Syst. III. 447. Say, Am. Ent. I. 
pi. 17. Boisduval and LeConte, p. 149. 9 • Edwards, Proe. Ent. Soc. Phil, iii, p. 431. (1864.) 
Male. Expands 3.3 inches. 
Upper side, from the hase to beyond middle of wings, dark Velvet-brown ; the 
outer limb deep orange, forming a wide hand, crenate within on primaries and cut 
by the brown shade along the nervures almost to the margin ; both wings edged 
by a brown line, which is preceded by a second, somewhat indistinct, but conspi- 
cuous at the crossing of the nervures, especially on primaries, where, at each cross- 
ing, is a patch of brown scales ; upon the orange band a double row of rounded 
brown spots, the outer one partly obsolete, the inner distinct and having the three 
lower spots much larger than the others. 
Under side of primaries, next hase, black, edged without by a zig-zag line 
similar to that of Cyhele and allied species, the interspaces next within this line 
of the color of the margin ; transverse patches of same color in the cell ; next the 
arc an irregular silver bar ; on the costa a few silver scales ; outer limb orange- 
brown ; the three largest spots of sub-marginal row reappear faintly. 
Secondaries have a silky gloss ; the basal two-thirds a dead-leaf brown ; outer 
limb same as on primaries, immaculate ; edging the brown space is an interrupted 
black line, more or less covered by silver scales and terminating, on each margin, 
in a triangular silver spot ; between the costal and sub-costal a silver crescent, edged 
anteriorly by black ; at the junction of same nervures a few silver scales ; on the 
arc an indistinct eyelet of darker brown ; within the margin a continuous hand of 
elongated silver crescents. 
Body above velvet brown, beneath same as secondaries ; legs and palpi same 
color; antennae dark brown above, ferruginous below; club dark brown tipped 
with ferruginous. 
Female. Expands nearly four inches. 
Upper side black, with blue or green reflections. Primaries have three trans- 
verse rows or spots ; the marginal small, rounded, white or bluish-white ; the sub- 
marginal elongated, rectangular, wanting two spots next the costa, bluish-white ; 
the median of irregular blue patches ; a blue patch on the costa ; the two lower 
spots of the suhmarginal and median united. 
Secondaries have a marginal row of bluish white bars between and reaching 
to the nervures, the three or four hinder ones broadest and bisected by a black 
line ; a broad submarginal metallic blue band, divided by the nervures into oblong 
