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NYMPH ALINiE. 
He says it is “usually found flitting rapidly, like a small Vanessa , along sunny roadsides and in 
gardens, settling on leaves and twigs with wings fully expanded.” He found it from December 
to May. I have not seen this butterfly at Macao, and of late years it has hardly been observed at 
Hongkong. It varies a good deal in size, but the sexes are similar and the 5 generally the larger. 
Fig. 10, PI. Ill is from a 5 taken at .Hongkong in August, so it is probably on the wing 
most of the year. 
Argynnis hyperbius, Linn. 
Also known as nip he , Linn.; hyperbius has priority, however. A fairly common insect 
here, usually to be found in gardens and waste ground ; the 5 is a most beautiful butterfly, quite 
different in colouration from the $, which on the upperside much resembles a lar geAtella phalantha. 
The white spots and markings on the underside of the hindwing are really white, not silver, though 
they have a metallic lustre. It has a swift and wandering flight, but is fond of flowers, especially 
Lantana ) and the recalls the Fritillaries common in the south of England, both in appearance 
and habits. It generally rests with expanded and slightly fanning wings on a flower or low herbage, 
often settling on the ground. On the wing the £ bears some resemblance to D. chrysippus. 
A. hyperbius is an insect with a very wide range, but most of the species of this genus are 
Palsearctic. 
Fig. 6, PI. IY is from a $ taken in September, Fig. 7 from a $ taken in the same month. 
It seems to occur chiefly in the autumn. 
Larva, just hatched, of a general dark purple-brown, spines dull yellowish at the base. 
Fullgrown, cylindrical, of a general velvety black, with a broad dorsal stripe of bright chestnut or 
light red, narrowing slightly towards the head and last segment, which is marked with a spot of 
chestnut just above the anus. Six rows of spines, two dorsal and two lateral rows each side. From 
the head to the fifth seg. inclusive the spines are entirely black with metallic dark blue reflections; 
the rest are light pink or reddish for about two-thirds of their height, the other third black; all the 
spines are finely spined laterally up the stems, the spinelets on the pink part of the stems inclining 
to be concolourous, the rest black. Head dull black, slightly hairy or bristly. Legs and prolegs 
shining black, the latter tipped with yellowish or flesh colour. Underside black. I have only found 
it feeding on the garden violet, but there is a common sp. of indigenous Violacece , on which it 
almost certainly feeds. The larva and pupa will be figured subsequently in black-and-white. 
Pupa, very angular, with two rows of large and finely-pointed processes, two on each 
segment down the back of the abdomen, brownish, tips black. Eight silver-gilt thoracic processes, 
the tips finely pointed and black; two similar processes on the head, which is obtusely cleft. 
General colour a dark yellow or purple-brown, with veinings of darker brown, but the ground 
colour varies in depth of tint, some specimens being almost black. Attached by the tip of the 
abdomen only, without a band. 
