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NYMPHALIDM. 
23. — A. Paphia, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 481; Esp. 17, 1, 2; Hiib. 
69, 70 ; 0. i. 1, 96 ; Err. B. 25. 
Expands from 2 25 to 2-75 in. The male lias all the wings 
bright fulvous, spotted with black ; bases blackish ; fore wings with 
thick black lines running along the nervures ; hind wings with the 
spots large and distinct. The female is much duller fulvous, the 
fore wings have their hind margins distinctly concave, and the 
nervures are not marked with black lines. Under side; Fore wings 
fulvous, spotted with black, greenish at the apex. Hind wings 
shining green, with two short silver streaks near the base, and 
another extending right across the centre of the wing ; the hind 
margin has a silver streaii throughout its entire length. The 
silvery markings are much more distinct in the female than in the 
male. PI. LII., 1. 
Times of Appeakance. — July and August. 
Habitat. — Woods throughout Europe (excepting the Polar 
Piegions), Western Asia, Siberia, and the Amur. It is a common 
British species (Silver-washed Fntillary), being found in almost 
every large wood in the South of England, frequently settling on 
the flowers of the bramble. 
Lakva. — Dark brown, with two narrow light yellow dorsal 
stripes, and lateral reddish yellow lines ; spines dark brown, the 
two nearest the head being longest. Feeds on Viola canina from 
the end of May to the middle of June. 
The Pupa is very beautifully decorated with shining metallic 
golden green spots. 
VAEIETIES. 
a. Valezina, Esp. 107, 1, 2; Fit. 331, 1. — Paphia, Hiib. 767-8. 
— A variety of the female in which the ground colour of the wings 
is entirely dark greenish, with black spots, the fore wings having 
some light yellow or white spots near the apex. Under side : The 
fore wings as in the type, but the ground colour is reddish and the 
apex deeper green. PI. LII., 2. 
Habitat. — This dimorphic condition of the female is apparently 
most frequently met with in the South. I have taken Valezina in 
Switzerland, and have seen it from Germany and Italy. In England it 
is very local, being almost entirely confined to the New Forest district. 
