ARGYNNIS IV. 
ARGYNNIS NOKOMIS. 
Argynnis Nofcomis (No-ko'-mis), Edwards, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1862. 
Primaries broad, strongly arched, slightly concave on hind margin. 
Male. — Expands 3.4 inches. 
Upper side uniform fiery fulvous, very little dusky at base; hind margins 
edged by two parallel black lines, the outer one delicate, the other heavy, the ful- 
vous spaces between cut into spots by the black nervules; both wings inscribed and 
spotted with black, more coarsely than in Aphrodite; the rounded spots small; the 
clear fulvous extra discal space notably broad ; the submarginal spots on primaries 
lunular at apex, otherwise serrate; on secondaries lunular, separated from each 
other and from the marginal lines; the mesial band of secondaries formed of sepa- 
rate crescents; the spot on arc like the letter 8. 
Under side of primaries bright red at base and on disk, changing to fulvous 
on outer limb and quite to hind margin ; apical portion golden yellow, the anterior 
six submarginal spots well silvered; four silvered subapical spots, the upper two 
minute, each on an olivaceous ground, posteriorly edged by black scales. 
Secondaries uniform golden yellow from base to margin ; the silver spots con- 
spicuous, the outer row entirely surrounded by black, and all the others heavily 
edged anteriorly by black; the seven spots of outer row narrow, elongated except 
the two at outer angle, which are broad and rounded ; of the eight spots of second 
row, the first three from costa and fifth and sixth rounded, the fourth small, seventh 
lanceolate, the eighth a dash on the margin; the third row of three, large and ir- 
regular; in cell a round spot in black ring, an oval below, and two spots without 
edging at origin of upper nervures; costa and abdominal margin lightly silvered. 
Body above fulvous, below buff slightly tinted with fulvous; legs buff; palpi 
buff, deep fulvous at tip; antennae dark brown above, fulvous below; club brown 
tipped with fulvous. 
Female. — Expands 3.6 inches. 
Upper side dark chocolate brown, the black markings indistinctly shown; the 
disks spotted with bright yellow, which takes the form of a common band of spots 
separated by the black nervules, and very much resembling in shape and distribu- 
tion the blue spots on Diana female, enclosing in same way as in that species the 
rounded extra discal black spots; these elongated spots are sometimes tinted slightly 
with fulvous, especially on primaries, and are much and irregularly irrorated AYith 
