174 LEPIDOPTERA. 



and 1872 there were an unusual number of records. Since 

 1884, however, it has hardly been seen. 



Abroad its range is very wide in temperate regions over a 

 large portion of Europe, Northern Asia, and North Africa. 



5. A. Euphrosyne, L. — Expanse, If inch. Dark fulvous 

 with black spots. An elongated central silvery spot on the 

 under side of the hind wings. 



Hind mai'gins of all the wings rounded. Fulvous, with 

 slender, blackish nervures ; basal portions of all the wings 

 blackish, with a faint dusting of tawny ; markings black. 

 Fore wings with the costa black, dusted with fulvous, and 

 along it the usual series of five elongated spots ; below them 

 an angulated spot on the dorsal margin ; then an exceedingly 

 irregular transverse series of squared spots, uniting the 

 nervures, followed by two more rows of spots, the first round, 

 or nearly so, the second lunate, lying between the nervures ; 

 hind margin with a row of spots on the tips of the nervures, 

 united by a slender black line. Hind wings with irregular 

 connected spots and streaks, forming two erratic slender stripes 

 before the middle ; beyond these a regular row of round spots 

 and another of crescents, the latter touching the black-lined 

 and spotted hind margin. Female similar, slightly larger, 

 much darker at the base. 



Under side of the fore wings pale fulvous, with the spots as 

 above, but smaller, and the apex clouded with dull reddish ; 

 hind wings with alternate broken bands of dull reddish and 

 straw colour, divided by the brown nervures; a silvery spot 

 at the base ; a larger one, somewhat peai'-shaped, in the 

 middle ; and a row, half- rounded or lunate, on the hind margin. 

 In the broad space preceding these is a row of red spots. 



The more usual and recurrent form of variation in this 

 species shows a tendency to drawing together, or even coales- 

 cence, of the spots of the middle area of the fore wings, so as 

 to form a sort of irregular central baud of spots, or even a 

 graded fascia, thus leaving a broad space almost devoid of 



