ARGYNNIS III. 
ARGYNNIS BISCHOFFII, 1-4. 
Argynnis Bischoffii Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. Vol. III. p. 189, 1870. 
Primaries short, slightly arched, the hind margins convex. 
Male. — Expands 1.8 inch. 
Upper side fulvous; the base of primaries and the inner half of secondaries 
densely obscured by purple-tinted black, so as to conceal the markings, both 
wings have broad black marginal borders, either crenated or erose on the inner 
side, and inclosing a series of small fulvous spots; often these are nearly or 
quite obsolete on the posterior half of primaries; the other markings much as 
in Eurynome ,* fringes luteous. 
Under side of primaries with a faint fulvous tint at base and over the median 
interspaces ; the apical area pale ochraceous, and often immaculate y often also 
the sub-marginal lunules are wanting or represented by a few brown scales only; 
but in some examples these lunules are distinct throughout. 
Secondaries buff washed with ochraceous, mottled on the basal area with 
grayish-green, and sometimes with reddish-brown on the middle of the disk; the 
band between the outer rows of spots buff; the sub-marginal spots broad, ser¬ 
rated ; of the second row, the first three are nearly equal, sub-ovate, the fourth 
minute, the fifth ovate, -larger than the first, the sixth ovate, small, the 
seventh irregular; in the third row are three spots and in the cell two; also 
one in the interspace above cell. Individuals differ much in respect to silver¬ 
ing, the larger proportion of males examined being wholly without silver, the 
spots buff, while in the females silvered spots predominate ; in many cases also 
where there is an absence of silver, the sub-marginal spots of secondaries, as 
well as of primaries, are nearly obsolete. 
Body black, with fulvous hairs, beneath gray-fulvous; legs and palpi fulvous ; 
antennae brown above, fulvous below; club black, tip ferruginous. 
Female. — Expands 1.9 inch. 
The basal half of primaries and almost the whole of secondaries obscured, to 
