ARGYNNIS XI. 
AEGYNNIS EDWAEDSII. 1—4. 
Argynnis Edwardsii, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., 1867. 
Primaries long and narrow, moderately arched ; slightly concave on hind 
margin. 
Male. Expands nearly 3 inches. 
Upper side pale fulvous, a little dusky at base, marked and spotted with black ; 
hind margin edged by two fine parallel lines, on which rest a series of connected 
lunules, which enclose fulvous spots a shade paler than the ground color ; other 
markings as in the allied species, rather more delicate than in most ; a sagittate spot 
in the submedian interspace near base. 
Secondaries have the extra discal spots small; a discal band of small separated 
lunules ; the spot on the arc like the letter C ; fringes luteous in the emarginations. 
Under side of primaries pale reddish fulvous at base and along the posterior 
nervules; remainder of wings light buff, except the apex and hind margin, which 
are greenish ; the submarginal silver spots are seven in number, triangular, the three 
posterior ones edged by blackish sagittate spots ; three anterior subapical spots sil- 
vered, the middle one large, sub-ovate. 
Secondaries pale olivaceous somewhat mottled with buff ; the band between 
the two outer rows of silver spots much encroached on by the ground color, as 
in Aphrodite ; the silver spots are twenty-four in number ; viz. seven submarginal, 
large, lunular or sub-triangular, each edged above by olivaceous ; the second row 
of seven, the fourth minute, the others large, mostly sub-ovate, slightly edged above 
with black, and below projecting olivaceous shadows on the band ; the third row of 
five, the first and fourth lunular, the second minute or wanting, the third large, pyri- 
form, cut by the arc, the fifth a stripe on the margin, all edged above with black ; 
in the cell one or two rounded spots and three at origin of the nervures ; shoulder 
and abdominal margin silvered. 
Body above fulvous, below buff ; legs and palpi fulvous ; antennae dark brown 
above, light below ; club black, ferruginous at tip. 
Female. Expands 2.8 inches. Primaries shorter, hind margin straight. 
Upper side obscured by black, much as in Callippe, showing like that species 
pale lunules within tire submarginal spots and a discal row of pale spots corres- 
ponding in shape to the second silvered row of under side ; apex ot primaries 
also paler than the ground color ; hind margin of primaries broad, blackish, of sec- 
ondaries similar in color, but of medium width. 
