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The costal margin of the fore-wings is arched, and the species have a bold 

 and graceful flight. The antennae are rather short, terminating in an abrupt 

 pyriform club. 



The anterior legs of the males are fringed with long delicate hairs, and 

 those of the three first species have the median nervules clothed with hairs 

 and scales of a peculiar form. The caterpillars are long, cylindrical, and 

 clothed with numerous bristly spines, arranged in whorls round the body ; 

 each segment having a whorl of these spines. They feed entirely on the 

 different species of the genus Viola or Violets. 



The genus has been divided into two sections. In the first of which the 

 second joint of the palpi is much swollen. In the second, which contains 

 two British -species, Euphrosyne and Selene, the second joint of the palpi is 

 not remarkably swollen. 



ARGYNNIS PAPHIA. 



Silver Striped Fritillary. 



PAPHIA, Linn. Paph'ia, a surname of Venus, from the island of Paphos. 



This Fritillary expands, in the width of its wings, from about two inches 

 and three quarters to three inches. On the upperside they are of a rich 

 fulvous with a greenish tinge towards the base with longitudinal black spots 

 and bars. The female is without the broad black borders to the veins of the 

 fore-wings which are so prominent in the male, and the black spots are 

 larger. On the underside the hind- wings are of a greenish shade, with silvery 

 hind -margins, and one long and two short silvery stripes : hence the English 

 name of silver striped is most appropriate. 



A well known variety of the female is not uncommon in the New Forest, 

 and also in Dorsetshire, Sussex, and other southern counties of England. It 

 has the usual fulvous ground colour replaced by a dark smoky greenish 

 brown. It is spotted in the usual way, but near the tip there are a few light 

 patches : this is known as Valezina of Esper. A worn male in the collection 

 of Mr. Bond, is said to be the only known male of this variety. In one, 

 figured by Hubner, the wings on the right-hand side are of this variety, and 

 those on the left as in the ordinary specimens. A similar one to this was 

 taken in the New Forest, Hampshire, in 1879 : and I have a very extra- 

 ordinary hermaphrodite taken likewise in 1879, in the New Forest by Mr. 

 Charles Gulliver; in which the two wings on the left-hand side are male, 

 and on the right-hand side female. But the upper-edge of the fore- wing of 

 the latter side is of the usual fulvous colour, and one-third of the lower- wing 

 is so coloured ; so that, to use Mr, Jenner Weir's expression in the "En.- 



