THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXVIL] 



JANUARY, 1894. 



[No. 368. 



VARIETIES OF ARGYNXIS EUPHROSYNE AND 

 MELITMA AURIXIA. 



By F. W. Frohawk, F.E.S., and R. South. 



Fig. 1. Argynnis euphrosync, <? ab. Fig. 2. Melitcea aurinia (arfemis), ? ab. 

 Fig. 3. Melitcea aurinia, $. 



Figure 1. — Arfiijnnis euphrosjinc, 3' ab,, captured May 5tli, 

 1893, in Lancashire, by Mr. T. Baynes, in whose collection the 

 specimen now is. 



Fore wings pale fulvous, blackish at the base ; there is 

 an elongate black spot at the outer extremity of discoidal 

 cell, one about the middle of the cell, and one below this 

 last in the submedian interspace; the submarginal area is 

 traversed by a series of six blackish spots, the second to fifth 

 of which are more or less elongated, and the sixth double and 

 ill-defined; marginal line black, preceded by black triangular 

 spots on the nervules. Hind wings : basal two-thirds black, the 



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