ARGYNNIS II. 
ARGYNNIS MEADII, 1-4. 
Argynnis Meadii , Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol. IV. p. 67, 1872. 
Primaries slightly arched, but little produced, straight on hind margin. 
Male. — Expands 2.2 inches. 
Upper side deep yellow-fulvous, but little obscured at base; hind margins bor¬ 
dered by two fine parallel lines, inclosing throughout a narrow fulvous space; 
upon these rest a confluent series of black spots, those next the apices lunate, the 
remainder serrate; the rounded extra-discal spots of medium size; the mesial 
band narrow, confluent on secondaries; in the cell of primaries, the usual inscrip¬ 
tions ; at the origin of lower branch of median a black mark, and below, in next 
interspace, a sagittate spot; the discal spot on secondaries an inverted C ; the 
second row of silver spots indicated by a space slightly paler than the ground ; 
fringes of primaries almost wholly fuscous, there being merely a little luteous 
in the middle of each interspace, of secondaries wholly luteous, except a few 
black hairs at the end of the posterior nervules. 
Under side of primaries pale cinnamon-brown at base and along the nervures 
of the disk, the remainder light buff, except that the apical area and hind margin 
are yellow-green; the five upper sub-marginal spots well silvered, as also the 
three sub-apical spots. Secondaries wholly of a glossy golden-green, a buff sub¬ 
color showing along the middle of the band between the two outer rows of spots; 
all the spots well silvered; of the seven sub-marginal, the first is sub-ovate, the 
next two serrate, the three following broad and sharply serrate, and the last sub- 
lunate, all completely edged with black; those of second row are mostly long 
oval, the first, second, and sixth of equal breadth, the third narrower, the fifth 
broader than the first, the fourth a point, the seventh irregular, all heavily 
edged with black above and lightly elsewhere; of the third row, the first is 
nearly round, the second minute, the third trapezoidal, the other two dashes, all 
edged above with black; in the cell two rounded spots in black circles, a long oval 
in sub-median interspace, and a dash at base of sub-costal; shoulder and inner 
margin lightly silvered, 
