ARGYNNIS III. 
ARGYNNIS OPIS, 6-8. 
Argynnis Opis , Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Yol. V., p. 105, 1874. 
Male. — Expands 1.5 inch. 
Primaries moderately arched, hind margins rounded ; under side without silver. 
Upper side uniform yellow-fulvous; primaries very little obscured at base, 
secondaries rather largely obscured both at base and down the abdominal mar¬ 
gin to the mesial band, that part of the wing being covered with a dense coating 
of dark brown bristling hairs; hind margins edged by two fine parallel lines, 
showing very narrow fulvous spaces between, and connected throughout with a 
series of small black lunules within which are fulvous spots; the extra-discal 
spots small; the mesial band delicate, and confluent on secondaries; in the cell 
of primaries a wavy stripe crosses the lower median interspace and part of sub¬ 
median below cell; secondaries have on the disk an incomplete black ring; 
fringes luteous, fuscous at the ends of the nervules. 
Under side of primaries buff, very slightly, if at all, red-tinted on basal area 
of primaries; the markings of the cell repeated, the mesial band represented 
by separated spots; the extra-discal spots obsolete except two or three next 
inner margin; the usual sub-marginal spots obsolete, or near inner angle repre¬ 
sented by a few scales only. Secondaries have the discal area pale ochraceous, 
somewhat mottled with faint red; the space beyond the second row of spots 
clear ochraceous; the sub-marginal spots faint, those of second row and those 
towards base scarcely more distinct; all these arranged as in Eurynome and al¬ 
lied species, but ochraceous, with no silver. 
Body above fuscous with fulvous hairs ; beneath, the thorax gray-fulvous, ab¬ 
domen buff; legs buff; palpi gray-fulvous; antemue fuscous above, fulvous be¬ 
low ; club black, the tip fulvous. 
Female. — Same size and shape. Color deeper fulvous; both wings obscured 
from base nearly to mesial band; the marginal band with the connected lunules 
