SILVER- WASHED FRITILLARY. 
Argynnis Papina. 
PLATE XIV, Fig. 1. 
Pap, Paphia, Linn Donovan, vii. pi. 247, 5. — Leutin, pi. 9. 
This species is usually of a larger size than either 
of the two preceding, but it bears considerable re- 
semblance to them in the colour and markings of the 
surface. The upper side is a bright yellowish-brown 
(tinged with green in the female), variously streaked 
and spotted with black. Beyond the middle of all 
the wings, there are three series of black spots, which 
are of a rounded form in the two innermost rows, 
and angular in the marginal one. The primary 
wings are paler on the under side, many of the black 
spots indistinctly marked, and the tip slightly tinged 
in certain places with green. The secondary wings 
are green, with a brassy lustre, and ornamented with 
four transverse streaks or irregular bands of silver- 
white, the two next the base abbreviated, and the 
fourth occupying the hinder margin ; the space be- 
tween the two hinder bands is tinged with yellow, 
and bears traces of the two superficial rows of spots. 
The body is covered with hairs the colour of the 
