LEPIDOPTERA. 157 



veiulets by a narrow line : Tiind-toing with an irregular zigzag inner 

 black band, then a row of five round black spots, and a submarginal 

 row of seven linear-shaped spots (the anterior and third being 

 smallest), also a marginal black line ; the angles and end of veinlets 

 also black. Under-side, fore-ioing yellow, the markings within dis- 

 coidal cell and about the disc as above, but submarginal row paler ; 

 none on margin ; near the apex a green patch, containing three 

 silvery-white spots : hind-wing beautiful metallic green, with a broad 

 submarginal and inner band, and a series of marks about the basal 

 half silvery-white, all margined more or less on one side with black ; 

 between the submarginal and inner band some small spaces of yellow, 

 and an indistinct row of reddish spots. "Wings shaped as in Argyn. 

 Faphia; expanse 2|- in. 



a. b. c. S • N. India. Presented by Colonel Buckley. 



335. ARGYNNIS RUBRA, Moore. 



Avgynnis Ritdra, n. »p. — Upper-side bright fulvous, duller and 

 slightly tinged with green at the base : fore-wing with the markings 

 disposed as in Arg. Childreni, but somewhat smaller, but with a 

 marginal row of small spots : hind-wing with the spots also disposed 

 as in Arg. Childreni, but with a marginal row of spots. Under-side, 

 fore-iving fulvous-yellow, greenish at the apex ; the spot on the 

 exterior half indistinct : hiAd-iving light green, palest on abdominal 

 margin ; a ferruginous irregular band crossing the basal half ; an 

 irregular more or less white line crossing from anterior margin near 

 the angle to abdominal angle ; also some white disposed from anal 

 angle and inclosing the green colour, and thus forming a submarginal 

 row ; along the outside of the white line, some ferruginous spots, 

 centred with white. Wings shaped as in Arg. Laodice, which ap- 

 pears to be a near ally ; expanse of wings 3 in: 



«. J . N. India. Donor unknown. 



326. ARGYNNIS CHILDRENI, G. R. Grmj. 



Argynnis Childreni, G. B. Gray, Gray's Zool. Misc. 



p. 33 (1832) ; Lep. Ins. of Nepal, p. 11, t. 11. E. 



Doxibleday, List Lep. Brit. Mus. pt. I. p. 68 ; 



Diurnal Lep. p. 174, n. 6. 

 Argynnis Sakontala, Kollar, in HugeVs Kaschmir, IV. 



^^. 11.^. 439, ^. XII. (1844). 



a. b. ? . N. India. Presented by Colonel Buckley. 



