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are disposed in stripes, as in A. Paphia ; whilst in some of the 
smaller species there are few or no metallic spots, as in A. Aphirape, 
Hecate, Daphne, &c. ; or they are more pearly than silvery, as in 
A. Euphrosyne, &c. In outline, the wings in the smaller species 
are simple, the fore wings being slightly pointed and with the hind 
margins convex ; whilst the hind wings are more or less rounded. 
In some of the larger species the fore wings have the hind margins 
concave, and the hind wings are slightly dentated. Discoidal cell 
of fore wings closed. 
The genus is widely distributed, being represented almost 
throughout the extra-tropical portions of the Northern Hemisphere 
from the North Africa, the Himalayas, South China, California, &c., 
to the Polar Kegions as far north as explorers have penetrated. 
Out of the Palsearctic and Nearctic Kegions, however, it is not 
found — the genera Atella, Cethosia, Dione, &c., replacing it in the 
tropics. 
The European species at first sight have the appearance of 
being easily divided into two groups, and it has been at various times 
proposed to place the smaller species in a separate genus ; the 
difference between the larger and the smaller species is, however, 
more apparent than real, the genus as it stands in its Fabrician 
sense being well defined, and not capable of any advantage by being- 
divided. In the ‘Genera of Hiurnal Lepidoptera’ the genus is 
arranged in two sections thus : — 
Sect. I. — Second joint of palpi mostly much swollen; sub- 
costal nervule thrown off before the end of the cell. Containing 
the larger species, together with A. Polaris, which resembles those 
of the next section. 
Sect. II. — Second joint of palpi not remarkably swollen ; 
second subcostal nervule thrown off beyond the end of the cell. 
Containing the Euphrosyne group, Eriyga, Pales, and its allies, 
excepting A. Polaris. 
In the larger species, Niobe, Adippe, Aylaia, Paphia, Pandora, 
&c., the thighs are smooth interiorly, whilst in the remaining 
section they are densely hirsute. 
For obvious reasons the description of the species of this genus 
will refer chiefly to the under surface of the wings. 
