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VENUS PMTILLARY. 



PLATE Lll. 



Argynnis Aphrodite, Bree. Westwood. 



Papilio Aphrodite, Fabricius. 



This is an American species, but it is unquestionable that a specimen 

 was taken in an undoubted wild state, so to speak, in Upton Wood, 

 a few miles from Leamington, Warwickshire, by James Walhouse, Esq., 

 of that place. How it came from the "Far West" is now an undis- 

 coverable mystery. This grand capture occurred in the summer of 

 1833. 



The expanse of the wings is nearly three inches and a quarter. The 

 fore wings are of a rich fulvous colour, spotted and chequered ovec 

 with black. The hind wings are of the same general ground colour, 

 with very similar markings. 



Underneath, the ground-colour is buff, tinged with pink, the tips 

 greenish, the dark marks shewing through. The hind wings are bronze 

 green, but dark at their base, and lighter towards the outside; a row 

 of semicircular silver spots follows the margin, and there are numerous 

 other silver spots. 



The engraving is from the figure in Mr. Westwood and Mr. Hum- 

 phreys' work. 



