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fourth joints progressively shorter ; the fifth longer than the third ; all these, with the 
spines of the lower surface, arranged in two regularly opposed series. Claws curved, 
• grooved below. Paronychia bilaciniate ; the outer lacinia rather slender, tapering, equal 
to the claw ; inner much shorter. Pulvillus jointed, nearly equal in length to the claw. 
"Lakva cylindric, spiny, the spines verticillate ; the prothoracic segment always with at least two 
spines. Pff^jrt angular, tuberculate ; the head mostly bifid." {Douhhday, I. c.) 
Argynnis oscarus. 
Argynnis oscarus, Evcrsmauu, Bull. Mosc. 1844, 3, p. 588, pi. xiv. figs. la,b; Lep. 
Ross. pi. V. figs. 3, 4. 
Argynnis oscarus, var. australis, Graeser, Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 90. 
*^A. alee posticse subtus ferrugineo-cinnamomese, nervis punctoque basali nigris, maculis marginalibus 
argenteis, serie ocellorum nigrorum, maculis summa) baseos fasciaque maculari media flavis ; 
macula media nervo transverso nigro in areas duas asque magnas partita." (Eversmann, I. c.) 
Type from the Province of Irkoutsk in Eastern Siberia. 
This species is rather like A. amathiisia, Esper, on the upper surface. On the under surface the 
secondaries are reddish brown, with some pale yellow basal spots and a central band of the 
same colour ; there is a black discoidal spot encircled with pale yellow, a submarginal series 
of black spots, some with pale centres, and a marginal series of silvery lunules bordered 
inwardly with black. 
Dr. Fixsen * records a form of A. oscarus from the Corea, referring it to 
var. maxima, Graeser [? var. australis, Graeser]. The specimens were taken 
in July. 
In his " Revision of the Genus Argynnis," Mr. Elwes says t : — " A. oscarus, 
as figured by Eversmann, is a sufficiently distinct species, though my 
specimens are not so bright in colour as his. He compares it with ossianus, 
as Fixsen does with euphrosyne ; but it seems to me nearer to selene than 
to either, though it may be distinguished from botli by its larger size, and by 
the absence of any silvery spots on the middle band of the hind wing below. 
I have not seen enough of the variety australis to say whether the difference 
is marked and constant, but Graeser says it has the same relation to the 
type as aphirape and euplirosyne have to ossianus and jimfal, and that the 
difference is much greater." 
Argynnis selene. (Flate XXIV. figs. 13, 14, vars.) 
I'apillo selene, IJiil)iu;r, Eur. Schmctt. i, figs. 20, 27 (1793). 
Argynnis *e/<?rae, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 277 (1819) ; Lang, Butt. Jiur. p. 197 (1884). 
JircMthis perryi, Butler, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) ix. p. 1(5 (1882). 
• l!oin. Hiir J.op. iii. j). ;W4 (1887). 
t Trans. Ent. See. Lend. 1889, p. 549. 
