ARGYNNIS II. 
ARGYNNIS CYBELE. 1—4. 
Argynnis Cybele (Cyb'-e-le), Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Ill, 445. Grodart, Enc. Meth. IX, 263. 
Boisduval and LeConte, 151. Daplmisl Cramer, plate 57. 
Primaries broad, strongly arched, slightly concave on hind margin. 
Male. Expands 3 inches. 
Upper side fulvous, inclining to luteous, brown at base ; whole surface marked 
and spotted with black ; primaries edged by a narrow line, preceded by a second, 
heavier and parallel, upon which rests a series of connected lunules, each enclosing 
a rounded fulvous spot; the clear fulvous space between the lines cut into spots by 
the black nervules; beyond the lunules a row of large round spots, a bar on costa, 
and a heavy zig-zag median band; outside the cell a spot shaped like the letter P 
inverted, inclosing a fulvous space; three sinuous bars across the cell. 
Secondaries have the submarginal line only, and a series of detached uncon- 
nected crescents; a row of small rounded spots and a median band of irregular 
spots, crescent or rectangular, almost obsolete on the abdominal margin but expand- 
ing largely near costa in the direction of the base; on the arc a spot like the let- 
ter S; nervures black only from the submarginal line to edge;' fringes yellowish 
at the emarginations, black at tips of nervules. 
Under side of primaries pale yellowish-brown, the apical space yellowish and 
enclosing a bright brown patch on costal margin; the hind margin has a broad 
border of same color, except at the extremities, where it is yellowish; resting on the 
border next inner angle are three lanceolate black spots, beyond these, to apex, five 
others, brown; all enclosing yellowish spaces, those next apex slightly, if at all, 
sprinkled with silver scales ; on the patch are three silver spots ; the black markings 
of upper surface repeated. 
Secondaries have the basal two-thirds red-brown, more or less mottled with 
yellow; hind margin brown, fading into yellow near anal angle; the space between 
the two outer rows of silver spots bright yellow and immaculate, making a conspi- 
cuous band, characteristic of the species; the silver spots are twenty-four or twenty- 
five in number, viz : seven large dentate upon the border, all edged above with 
brown; a second row of eight irregular, the eighth, a stripe on the margin, often 
wanting ; a third row of five or six, the first Emulate, the second minute, the third 
minute, often wanting, the fourth pyriform, cut by the arc, the fifth and sixth 
streaks ; next two round spots in the cell, a third below the median and two at the 
junction of the nervures above; the shoulder broadly silvered; abdominal margin 
1 ightly ; all these spots, except the marginal row, the last on third row and the two 
