ARGYNNIS VI. 
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jLa. (d-A-wiA') 
AKGYNNIS CALLIPPE. 1—4. 
Argynnis Callippc, (Cal-lip'-pe) Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, 2 ser. x. p. 302. 1852. 
Primaries long, narrow, moderately arched, slightly concave on hind margin. 
Male. Expands 2.3 inches. 
Upper side dull fulvous, very much obscured, the nervules being broadly edged 
with black, and inner angles of both wings and three-fourths the surface of second- 
aries, of same color ; hind margins black, with heavy, confluent dentations ; the 
discal interspaces of primaries and marginal spots of both wings of a paler fulvous 
than the ground color, and on secondaries an extra median row of still lighter spots, 
corresponding to the silver spots of lower surface, each starting from the black 
median band (which is confluent) and terminating in one of the rounded black 
spots ; other markings of both wings as in the allied species ; fringes yellowish, 
black at tips of nervules. 
Under side of primaries fulvous at base and along the lower nervures and 
their branches ; costa, outer half of cell and interspaces on the disk clear yellow ; 
the outer limb mixed or mottled with fulvous ; the submarginal serrations black- 
ish next inner angle and almost wanting above, enclosing triangular spots more or 
less silvered ; two silver spots on subapical patch. 
Secondaries yellow, the basal two-thirds more or less mottled with reddish- 
brown of a darker shade than that of primaries ; the band between the outer rows 
of spots clear yellow, immaculate ; the silver spots are 23 or 24 in number, viz : the 
marginal row of seven, large, triangular, all edged above with brown ; the second 
of eight, the first and fifth obovate, second and third long oval, fourth minute, 
sixth long and rectangular, seventh and eighth irregular, all edged slightly above 
with black ; the third row of four or five, the first large, semi-oval, second often 
wanting, third pyriform, cut by the arc, fifth a streak, the first, third and fourth 
edged above with black ; in the cell one or two small rounded spots, a third, long 
oval, at base of median, these wholly edged with black ; a silver patch at base of 
costal; shoulder and abdominal margin silvered. 
Body above dark fulvous, beneath, yellow on abdomen, greyish-yellow on thorax ; 
palpi grey fulvous ; antennse fulvous ; club black, ferruginous at tip. 
Female. Expands nearly three inches. 
Color paler, fading to whitish on the disk and in the extra median and mar- 
ginal spots of secondaries ; the black markings heavier than in the male ; under 
side paler, but similar to male. 
