196 LEPIDOPTERA. 



3. M. Artemis, Huh. Schiff.; aurinia, Stmul. Cat. 

 — Expanse li to 2 inches. Tessellated with fulvous and 

 black; or with fulvous, yellow, and black. Hind wings 

 tawny beneath, aiad having one row of black dots before 

 the margin. 



Fore wings of the male somewhat pointed, as in the last 

 species ; of the female more obtuse, the anal angle being 

 much more dilated and rounded. Reddish fulvous, all the 

 wings blackish at the base and round the margins, and with 

 the nervures blackish, crossed by a series of curved and 

 indented blackish stripes and lines, which give the whole 

 surface a beautifully chequered or tessellated appearance. 

 Costal margin of the fore wings broadly blackish, but thickly 

 dusted with yellowish white. Hind wings with a row of black 

 dots in the row of fulvous spaces before the hind margin. 

 Female similar, but larger. 



Under side of fore wings a faint copy of the upper ; of the 

 hind wings pale straw colour banded with rich fulvous, the 

 alternate bands divided by dark nervures, and edged with 

 black scalloped or indented lines ; in the sub-marginal band 

 of rich fulvous a black dot in a pale ring occupies the centre 

 of each division. 



Very variable, especially in the substitution of pale 

 fulvous, yellow, or straw-colour for the red fulvous of many 

 of the interspaces of the upper side. These pale spaces 

 occur generally in transverse rows, sometimes alternately 

 with rows of the fulvous spaces, sometimes occupying the 

 centre of the wings, so that the fore wings show a very 

 broad pale band, broken into squares by the black bands and 

 nei'vures, while the hind wings have a narrow central pale 

 stripe or row of spots, and another, still paler, along the hind 

 margin ; indeed, this last row of spots is often white. In 

 whatever manner the other parts of the wings may vary, the 

 sub-marginal band of the hind wings, which is rather broad 

 and contains the row of black dots, is, I think, always of the 

 red fulvous colour, the only apparent deviation from this 



