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South-western United States. One of the most remarkable 

 species of the Southern States is A. diana (Cramer), the male of 

 which is black, with a very broad orange border, while the 

 female, which measures five inches in expanse, is dark green, 

 with several rows of white spots towards the margins of the 

 fore-wings, and with broad blue bands towards the margins 

 of the hind-wings. 



THE SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY. ARGYNNIS PAPHIA. 

 (Plate XL, Figs. I, 2 ; Male.} 



Papilio paphia, Linn., Syst, Nat. (ed.jx.), i., p. 481, no. 138 

 (1758) ; id., Faun. Suec. (ed. ii.), p. 281, no. 1064 (1761) ; 

 Esper, Schmett., i. (i), p. 223, pi. 17, figs, i, 2; i. (2), p. 

 58, pi. 60, fig. 4(i777)- 



Argynnis paphia, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., i., p. 40 (1827) ; 

 Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 21, pi. 9, figs. 6a-d 

 (1878); Lang, Butterflies Eur., p. 214, pi. 3, fig. i (1883); 

 Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Butterflies and Moths, i., p. 58, 

 pi. 10, fig. i (1886); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 156, 



pi. 22 (1892). 



Var. a. Argynnis vaksina. 



Papilio valcsina, Esper, I.e., i. (2), p. 73, pi. 107, figs, i, 2 



(1790?). 

 Argynnis paphia, var. valezina, Lang., I.e., p. 214, pi. 52, fig. 2 



(1883). 



This is one of the largest and handsomest of our British 

 Butterflies, sometimes measuring nearly three inches in ex- 

 panse. The male is of a rich fulvous, with two rows of black 

 spots on the outer half of the wings, in addition to a marginal 

 row. There are also several black spots towards the centre of 

 the fore-wings, and a thick black interrupted zig-zag line across 

 all the wings ; and the fore-wings are streaked with black along 



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