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SILVER- WASHED FRITILLARY 



Argynnis Paphia. 



PLATE XIV. Fig. . . 



Pap Paphia, Linn — Donovan, vii. pi, 247, b.^—Lewin, pi. 9. 



This species is usually of a larger size than either 

 of the two preceding, but it bears considerable re- 

 semblance to thera in the colour and markings of the 

 surface. The upper side is a bright yellowish-brown 

 (tinged with green in the female), variously streaked 

 and spotted with black. Beyond the middle of all 

 the wings, there are three series of black spots, which 

 are of a rounded form in the two innermost rows, 

 and angular in the marginal one. The primary 

 wings are paler on the under side, many of the black 

 spots indistinctly marked, and the tip slightly tinged 

 in certain places with green. The secondary wings 

 are green, with a brassy lustre, and ornamented with 

 four transverse streaks or irregular bands of silver- 

 white, the two next the base abbreviated, and the 

 fourth occupying the hinder margin ; the space be- 

 tween the two hinder bands is tinged with yellow^ 

 and bears traces of the two superficial rows of spots. 

 The body is covered with hairs the colour of the 



