NYMPHALIME. 291 



DESCRIPTION. 





Primary wings tawny-orange, brown at the base ; spotted, inscribed and reticulated with black ; 

 at the posterior margin is a deep orange band edged with black ; above this a series of black crescents 

 succeeded by one of round spots ; the costal margin is barred with black, the three anterior bars 

 being angular, and the fourth shaped like the letter P ; this is followed by three others less distinct ; 

 the reticulations of the disk terminate posteriorly in a zigzag black band ; underneath at the external 

 angle are five, silver, marginal triangles surmounted with black, and above them near the costa two 

 others : the secondaries have a marginal series of black crescents ; above which the wing is spotted 

 with black, with a few paler spots surmounted by a black crescent: underneath they are reddish-brown, 

 with a pale tawny marginal band ; a marginal series consisting of seven silver triangular spots edged 

 with black next follows, and a second series consisting of the same number, differing in shape, edged 

 also with black, the intermediate one being the smallest; a third series succeeds of four spots, that 

 next the costa is crescent-shaped, the second is subtriangular divided by a black line, the third is 

 oblong and the fourth minute ; at the base are five spots varying in form, on the shoulders is also a 

 silver spot, and the inner margin is silvered but less conspicuously : fringe pale, barred with black. 



Fabricius does not mention the two costal silver spots of the prone surface of the primaries, in 

 some specimens these appear not silvered. 



In the smaller specimen the marginal band of the primaries is nearly black, the tawny colour 

 being nearly evanescent. 



(408) • 4. Argynnis Freya. Freya Argynnis. 



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Argynnis Freya. God. Encycl. Method, ix, 273, 37. 



Papilio Freya. Hubn. Schaett. 2, 13, t. x, f. 55, t. xi, /. 560. Herbst. Schmett. x, 129, t. cclxxii, /. 7— 10. Tbunb. 



Diss. Ins. Snec. iii, 49, t. v, /. 14. Schneid. Mag. i, 420. Illig. Mag. i, 452, iii, 195. Ochs. Schmett. i, 78, 11. Esp. 



Schmett. contin. t. cix. 

 Papilio Dia lapponica. Esp. Schmett. i, t. xcvii, cont. t. Iii, /. 3. 



Expansion of tbe wings 1J inches. 



Three specimens taken near Cumberland-house, Lat. 54°. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Stalk of the antenna? yellow with a large compressed dark-brown knob, red underneath at the 

 base and tip : wings tawny, dark-brown at the base, with a narrow black band occupying the pos- 

 terior .margin, followed by a series of black arrow-headed spots ; next to which in the primaries is a 

 zigzag angular discoidal black band, and at the anterior margin five transverse spots of the same 

 colour ; the underside of these wings is tawny variegated with black and white spots and lines : the 

 secondaries are underneath reddish-brown variegated with white and yellow spots and bands, with a 

 discoidal arrow-headed white spot in the centre ; the fringe of the wings is alternately white and 



yellow. 



2 P 2 



