ARGYNNIS. 
197 
fringes black and white. Under side : Fore wings with some 
straw-coloured and purple markings at the apex. Hind wings 
straw-coloured, with a light fulvous band near the base, some 
purple markings near the hind margin, and across the centre of 
the wing a pearly streak with some purple dots. PI. XLVI., 3. 
Times of Appeakance. — May and June. 
Habitat. — The East of Eussia (Central and Southern Ural), 
Southern Siberia, and the Amur.’ 
Life -history unknown. 
3.— A. Selene, Schiff. S. V. p. 321 ; Htlb. 26, 27 ; 0. I. 1, 55. 
Eupheosyne, Bgstr. Nom. 42, 1, 2 ; Esp. 30, 1. 
Thalia Esp. 97, 2ab. 
Expands from 1*50 to 1’75 in. Bright fulvous, spotted with 
black ; bases blackish. Under side : Hind wings straw-coloured, 
marked with dark purplish brown ; a row of black spots parallel to 
the hind margin. There are pearly or silvery spots arranged thus : 
two or three at the base ; a central row of several, always more 
than one ; a hind-marginal row of triangular pearly spots, some- 
times a streak between these and the central row. PI. XLVI., 4. 
Times of Appeaeance. — June and August. 
Habitat. — The whole of Europe, excepting Andalusia, the 
Mediterranean Islands, and Greece ; also Bithynia, Armenia, the 
Altai, and the Amur. Generally distributed in Britain ; commonest 
in the South of England, frequenting heaths and open places in 
woods. 
Laeva. — Black, with paler spines, sometimes with whitish 
dorsal and lateral stripes ; anterior legs red. It feeds on Viola 
canina in June and September. 
VAEIETY. 
Hela, Stgr. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1861, 347. — A small and darker 
form of the species, having the superior surface blackish at the 
base, and with large spots. It is a boreal variety, occurring in 
Lapland, Eastern Siberia, and the Amur (conf. A. Euphvosijneydir. 
Fingal). 
