PAPILIONINA 



[amosia 



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. (wrchippus, F.; Iplexipput, 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 ochreons-orange spots. Hind wings with colour, veins, and 

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

 vein 2 before its middle. Wings beneath paler, especially 

 hindwinga, 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 12 : 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. Arqynnis, /''. 



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. pa/phia, 

 Hindwings beneath witli 

 duration or /fwinisodtp,*. distinct silvery spots 2. 



2. Hindwings beneath with spots in subterminal 



band .' . . .3. 



,, without spots in subterminal band 3. aylaia. 



