ARGYNNIS VII. 
ARGYNNIS RUPESTRIS, 1-4. 
Argynnis Rupestris, Behr. Proc. Cal. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1863, p. 84. Same work, 1862, p. 175, described as 
“ No. 6.” 
Male. —Expands two inches. 
Primaries strongly arched, moderately produced, rounded apically; hind mar¬ 
gin nearly straight. 
Upper side deep red-fulvous, somewhat obscured at base of primaries, and 
largely on secondaries, the dark portion nearly reaching the mesial band; 
hind margins bordered by two fine parallel lines, on which rest a series of lunules 
which inclose spots of the ground color; the extra-discal spots rounded, large, 
especially those on the posterior half of primaries, and all on secondaries except 
the one on upper median interspace, which is minute; the mesial band heavy, 
and confluent throughout; the usual inscriptions in cell of primaries, and a 
sagittate spot in sub-median interspace; in the cell ol secondaries a spot like an 
inverted C ; all these marks heavy; fringes luteous, black at tips of nervules. 
Under side of primaries brick-red at base, bull over outer part of cell and the 
apical area ; the median interspaces tinted with red on buff ground ; the mark¬ 
ings repeated; near the apex a slight ferruginous patch; the sub-marginal 
lunules brown, darkest posteriorily, inclosing buff spots without silver ; sec¬ 
ondaries cinnamon-red on bufl ground, the latter appearing in patches on the 
disk and in the cell; the band between the outer rows of spots narrow, buff, en¬ 
croached on by the basal color; the sub-marginal spots light buff, very slightly 
silvered, long, narrow, edged above by red; the remaining spots yellow-buff, 
with no silver, each of those of second and third rows edged narrowly above by 
black; the second row consists of seven spots, of which the first three and the 
fifth and sixth are sub-ovate and equal, the fourth minute, the seventh sub- 
lunate; the third row of three spots; in the cell two, and an oval at base of 
lower median interspace, these edged with black; a patch of bufl at base of sub¬ 
costal interspace. 
