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Argynnis childreni. 
Argijnnis childreni. Gray, Zool. Misc. i. p. 33 (1831) ; Lep. Ins. Ncp. p. 11, pi. xi. ^ 
(18i6) ; de Niceville, Butt. lud. ii. p. 132 (1886). 
Argynnis sakontala, Kollar, Hugel's Kaschmir, iv. pt. ii. p. 439, pi. xii. & ? (1848) ; 
Moore, Anderson's Auat. & Zool. Researches, p. 924' (1878). 
" Wings fulvous, spotted with black ; the anal half of the posterior margin of the hind wing 
tinged with blue. Underside of the fore wing with the basal portion crimson, spotted with 
black, an oblique medial band, which extends along the margin to the posterior angle, and 
the apex pale green with two short white lines. Hind wing greenish bronze, with oblique 
silvery white bands, narrowly margined with blue on each side." {Graij, L. I. N.) 
Female differs from the male in its larger size, duller coloration, and broader blue border to the 
secondaries. 
Expanse (Chinese specimens), S 94-100 millim., 2 100-110 millim. 
Occurs from the North-west Himalayas across China to Ningpo, at various 
elevations up to 10,000 feet. So far the species has not been met with in 
Japan or Corea, but it is not uncommon at Chia-ting-fu and Wa-shan in 
Western China and at Chang-yang and Ichang in Central China. It frequents 
grassy slopes in the neighbourhood of woods, but only a few specimens are 
seen together at any one time and place. 
Chinese specimens are finer than any that I have seen from India. 
Argynnis niphe. 
Papilio nijyhe, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. xii. p. 785 (1767) ; Drury, 111. Exot. Ent. i. pi. vi. 
fig. 1, ? (1770) ; Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. xiv. figs. D, E, cj; B, C, ? (1775). 
Argynnis niphe, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 261 (1819) ; Kollar, Hiigel's Kaschmir, iv. 
pt. ii. p. 440, pi. xiii. figs. I, 2 ^ (1848); de Niceville, Butt. lud. ii. p. 181 
(1886); Pryer, Rhop. Nilion. p. 28, pi. vii. figs. 8 ff, 8 6 (1889). 
Acidalia niphe, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 31 (1816) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 60, 
pi. xxxi. figs. 2 cJ, 2c ^ ,2b, larva and pupa (1881). 
" Male. Upperside bright dark ochreous. Fore wing with black discoidal marks, a transverse 
discal zigzag series of six large spots, two submarginal rows of slightly smaller spots, and a 
marginal dentate line. Hind wing with slender black discoidal marks and transverse discal 
spots, a submarginal inner row of small spots and outer row of broad conical spots bordered 
towards the anal angle by a blue fine ; a marginal dentate line bordered by a blue line. 
Female brownish ochreous on basal area ; markings broader; apical area of fore wing with 
blue-black interspaces and obliquely crossed by a white band, the spots also bordered by 
blue. Underside : fore wing red on basal area, pale ochreous and greenish at apex ; male 
with two apical series of white spots ; female as above ; other markings as on upperside. 
Hind wing greenish ochreous brown, crossed by three black zigzag lines and a submarginal 
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