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living specimens which were at first forwarded, and there is 

 a faint possibility that a slight migration of the species may 

 have then taken place, but it is most significant that, from 

 the time when the demand for the insect at a hiyh price 

 ceased, no one has ever pretended that any Hiobe could be 

 taken in Kent. Under these circumstances, it cannot appa- 

 rently be included, even as a migrant, among the British 

 species.] 



3. Argynnis Aglaia, L. — Expanse, 2 to 2| inches. 

 Fulv'ous, with black spots and nervures. Hind wings beneath 

 spotted with silvery on a dark green ground. No red spots in 

 the sub-marginal band. 



Fore wings usually with the hind margin slightly rounded, 

 that of the hind wings being faintly scalloped. Wings ful- 

 vous, the bases blackish, suffused with golden brown ; costa, 

 nervures, and spots black. Fore wings of the male with four 

 elongated spots from the costa, forming bars across the discal 

 cell ; beyond is a very irregular transverse row of rather 

 squared spots, uniting the nervures ; these spots are narrower 

 than in A.Adippe. Beyond is a much straighter, usually com- 

 plete, row of round spots, and another of thickened crescents, 

 the horns of which unite with a marginal row of spots situ- 

 ated on the nervures, and connected by a double brown line. 



Hind wings with an angulated, somewhat loop-shaped, 

 mark before the middle, and partly obscured in the basal 

 clouding; beyond it a slender transverse fascia, thickened here 

 and there into spots, and very irregular ; then a curved row 

 of conspicuous round spots, usually five in number, beyond 

 which is a complete series of strongly marked crescents, the 

 points of which touch the marginal row of spots at the termi- 

 nation of the nervures, these being united by the usual 

 double line. Cilia whitish, interrupted with black. Female 

 decidedly larger, markings similar, but larger and more 

 pronounced, and the blackish basal suffusion much more 

 extended. 



