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PAPILIONINA 



[ANOSIA 



of long tentacles. Both larva and imago are protected by a 

 strong nauseous scent or taste, and are uneatable to birds. 



1. A. erippus, Cr. (archippus, F.; Iplexippus, L.) 95-102 mm. 

 Forewings deep brownish-orange, veins marked with blackish 

 streaks ; a blackish border all round, on costa with some white 

 spots towards middle, on termen with a double row of whitish 

 spots ; a blackish costal blotch beyond middle, enclosing about 

 five ochreous-orange spots. Hindwings with colour, veins, and 

 terminal band as in forewings ; in < a black glandular spot on 

 vein 2 before its middle. Wings beneath paler, especially 

 hindwings, white spots larger. 



Kent to Cornwall, an occasional immigrant since 1876 ; W. 

 coast of Europe (an immigrant only), N. and S. America, 

 Pacific Islands to Celebes, E. Australia, New Zealand ; 8-10. 

 Larva black, banded with yellow and white ; two long black 

 dorsal tentacles on 2, two others shorter on 1 2 : on Asclepias ; 

 5-8. Pupa very stout, pale green, marked with golden-metallic 

 and black. Indigenous to America; elsewhere it has spread 

 since 1870 or thereabouts, but is now established where its 

 food-plant is found. 



2. ARGYNNIS, F. 



Eyes glabrous. Club of antennae abrupt. Forewings : 10 

 separate or out of 7. Hindwings 

 with transverse vein present. 



A considerable genus, ranging 

 through most of the Northern 

 hemisphere, with a small outlying 

 group in the mountains of Chili, 

 and one species in C. Africa; in 

 warmer latitudes the species are 

 alpine. Larva with six series of 

 strong bristly spines. Pupa often 

 with angular prominences and 

 golden-metallic spots. 



1. Hindwings beneath with 

 suffused silvery streaks 



1. paphia. 



Hindwings beneath with 

 distinct silvery spots 2. 

 with spots in subterminal 



3. 



Neu ration of Argynnis adippe. 



2. Hindwings beneath 

 band 



without spots in subterminal band 3. aylaia. 



