Argynnis Laura.

Male.–Expands 2.2 inch.

Upper side deep red-fulvous, obscured at base of primaries and still more at base of secondaries, the ground there being black with a slight dusting of fulvous ; the black markings as in the allied species, rather heavy, while the nervules of primaries, especially the discoidal, and the branches of median,–and on secondaries the branches of sub-costal, are widely bordered with black; the mesial band of secondaries confluent; fringes yellow-buff, black at the ends of the nervules.