FRITILLARIUS 



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4. High-brown Fritillary (Argynnis Adippe). Upper side of the Male. 



the hind margin nearly straight : the hind 

 margin of the hind wings is scalloped, but not 

 deeply so : the colour of the upper side is 



bright sienna-brown in both sexes, and is 

 without that blackish patch at the base of 

 the wings which distinguishes both sexes of 



Upper side of the Female. 



Aglaia, and the females of i^iobe, but is 

 adorned with numerous black spots, as shown 

 in the figure. The under side is fulvous, the 

 fore wings having numerous black spots, as 



shown in the figure, and generally some square 

 reddish spots towards the tip, and also from 

 three to five silvery spots: the hind wings are 

 nearly of the same ground colour as the fore 



Under side of the Male. 



wings, the basal portion of the wing having 

 usually fourteen silver spots of various size 

 and shape, as represented in the figure, and 



outside of these is an irregular series of silver 

 dots,fach surrounded by red-brown, an.) again 

 beyond these is a row of faint silvery *emi- 



