ARGYNNIS VI. 
ARGYNNIS RHODOPE, 1—4. 
Argynnis Rhodope ( Rhod'o-pe ), Edwards, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1874, p. 13. 
Primaries of medium width, moderately arched, straight on hind margin. 
Male. —Expands 2.2 inches. 
Upper side deep red-fulvous, the basal area of each wing up to the mesial band 
dark brown ; hind margins edged by two heavy, parallel, black lines, sometimes 
confluent, on which rest a series of lunules which inclose narrow, sub-ovate, ful¬ 
vous spots; the preceding rounded spots small; other markings as in the allied 
species, but heavy throughout; the mesial band on secondaries confluent; the 
discal spot on same wing oval, with a narrow, fulvous sinus; beyond this spot to 
base, the ground in the cell, and for some distance on either side of the cell, is 
black, partially covered by brown scales; along the inner edge of the mesial 
band above median nervure are fulvous spots in the interspaces; fringes alter¬ 
nately luteous and black, the latter prevailing on primaries. 
Under side of primaries dark ferruginous along the entire hind margin and 
apex quite up to the line of rounded spots; sometimes the basal area and inner 
margin are of sam& hue, but in other cases are paler ; the sub-costal and discoi- 
dal interspaces yellow, as is also much of cell; the spots inclosed in the sub-mar¬ 
ginal lunations small, and the upper five or six either yellow with a few silver 
scales, or well silvered ; on costal margin three sub-apical spots on a patch of 
reddish-brown, also either yellow or silvered, differing in individuals. 
Secondaries uniform deep red-ferruginous from base to margin, except that 
sometimes there is a narrow pale space between the two outer rows of spots, as 
of a yellow sub-color washed with red ; also in some cases the middle of wing, 
next anterior to the second row, is much covered with black ; the marginal 
spots well silvered, narrow, elongated, lunular; those of second row nearly equal 
in size, excepting the fourth, which is minute ; the first three, fifth, and sixth 
sub-quadrate, the seventh long and narrow, the eighth, on inner margin, nearly 
obsolete; all these heavily edged above with black; the spots of third row 
small, edged above with black; in the cell a rounded spot, and at the base of 
