NOTES ON TELEPHORI. 133 



date of the capture of Arg. Aphrodite ; but as it occurred 

 during the season when Arg. Paphia was on the wing, it 

 must, most probably, have been in July or August. We may 

 conclude also that the period of flight, with both insects, is 

 the same. 



The accompanying figures (Sup. 111. PI. x.) supersede the 

 necessity of entering into a minute description of the insect. 

 It is larger^ than Arggnnis Paphia, and of the same rich ful- 

 vous colour, checkered and spotted with black, on the upper 

 surface. The black spots and markings on the second pair 

 of wings are niether so large nor so strongly developed as in the 

 corresponding wings of that species, and oi Aglaia and Adip- 

 pe ; to which latter species our insect more nearly approaches 

 on the under surface, having the second pair of wings adorned 

 with numerous silver spots on a buff'-coloured ground, which 

 is dark towards the base of the wings, and becomes lighter 

 towards the lower extremities, with a marginal row of semi- 

 circular silver spots. In the grouping of our British species 

 I should feel disposed to place Arggnnis Aphrodite between 

 Arg. Paphia and Adippe, possessing, as it does, some cha- 

 racters in common with each, while it is yet abundantly dis- 

 tinct from either. 



Art. V. — Notes on Telephori, By Peter Rylands, Esq. 



The object of the present notice is to clear up the synonymy 

 of Telephorus ater, and to correct some errors into which 

 Mr. Stephens has fallen respecting that and allied species. 



As a text to the remarks which I have to submit on this 

 subject, the following descriptions of Tel. ater dcadiflavilahris 

 from Mr. Stephens's * Illustrations ' may be given. 



'^ ater. Ca. ater, Linne. Te. ater, Steph. Catal. 130, 

 No. 1322. 



" Elongate : head black : mouth testaceous : thorax fuscous black with 

 the margin testaceous : scutellum and elytra also of the same hue, the latter 

 clothed with a griseous pubescence : abdomen black, with the apex broadly 

 flavescent or pale testaceous : femora black : tihice entirely of the latter 

 colour: tarsi fuscescent: antenna with the three basal joints flavescent, 

 the rest black. — Long. corp. 3-3^." 



'^Jlavilahris. Ca. Jlavilahris, Fallen. Tel. Jlavila- 

 hris, Steph. Catal. 



' I am informed that the specimens of Argynnis Aphrodite in the British 

 Museum, are generally larger than our individual. 



