ARGYNNIS XII. 
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ARGYNNIS BEHKENSII. 1—4. 
Argynnis Behrensii , Edwards, Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., 1870. 
Primaries narrow, slightly arched, concave on hind margin. 
Male. Expands 2.2 inches. 
Upper side dull fulvous, much obscured at base ; primaries bordered by two 
fine parallel lines enclosing very narrow fulvous spaces between the nervules ; rest- 
ing on these a series of small black crescents, each enclosing a fulvous spot ; the 
round submarginal spots of medium size ; other markings as in Hesperis and al- 
lied species. 
Secondaries have a double marginal line enclosing large fulvous spaces ; the 
lunules large, crescent, not quite touching each other or the line ; the rounded 
spots small ; the median row confluent, forming an unusually narrow band, much 
like that of Hesperis ; on the arc a recurved black spot enclosing a narrow ful- 
vous space ; between the submarginal spots and median line a row of pale fulvous 
spots corresponding to the second silvered series beneath. 
Under side : primaries light buff, at base and along the nervules pale ferrugi- 
nous ; on hind margin and at apex dark brown ; the marginal spots sagittate, black 
next inner angle, deep brown above and near apex lost in the ground color ; the 
upper five enclosing silver spaces; on the sub-apical patch three silver spots; other 
markings as above. 
Secondaries of a deep, dense ferruginous, (much as in female Aphrodite ) which 
color occupies the whole wing except a narrow violet-brown space between the outer 
rows of spots ; these are twenty-one or twenty-two in number, all silvered, viz : 
seven submarginal, narrow, elongated, edged above by broad ferruginous crescents ; 
a second row of seven mostly oval or pyriform ; a third of five; of which the first and 
third are semi-oval, the second a point, fourth and fifth streaks on the margin; 
both the two last rows narrowly edged with black ; in the cell a round spot and a 
point; an oval at base of median, another at base of costal ; shoulder and abdominal 
margin lightly silvered. 
Body above fulvous ; beneath, abdomen buff, thorax covered with gray-ful- 
vous hairs ; palpi fulvous ; antennae black above, fulvous below ; club black, tip 
ferruginous. 
