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NYMPHALIDAE 
Small Pearl - bordered 
Fritillary. Larva leaving 
its hibemaculum. 
day, both in sunshine and shade. The 
larval state lasts about 315 days. 
Pupa. The pupa measures 14-5 mm. 
long. The head is blunt and rounded, 
the thorax swollen, rising into a central 
conical point, and is deeply sunken at 
the waist. The abdomen is swollen at 
the second and third segments, then 
curves to the seventh segment, where 
it sharply turns at a right angle to the 
extremity ; the abdomen is contracted 
on the ventral surface, and the wings are 
swollen. The ground colour is lilac- 
buff, reticulated with dark-brown and 
blotched with black. 11 is suspended by 
the cremastral hooks to a pad of silk spun on the stem or leaf 
stalk of a plant. The pupal stage occupies about fourteen days. 
Imago. The average expanse of the wings in the male is 
41 mm. ; in the female, 44 mm. 
Male. The ground colour of the male is a rich fulvous, 
checkered and spotted with black, similar 
in pattern to A. cuphrosync, but all the 
markings are narrower. The under sur¬ 
face is also much the same pattern, but is 
at once distinguishable from A. euphro- 
syne by the colouring of the markings and 
the additional silver spots on the hind 
wing. In A. selenc the yellow markings 
are much lighter and the red blotches are 
much deeper in colour, a sub-marginal 
series of purplish-black spots running 
through the blotches adds depth to the 
appearance of the red. The whole of the 
neuration, as well as the silver and median 
yellow markings, is outlined with dark 
red-brown and black, producing a beauti¬ 
ful variegated and tessellated pattern. sixth segmentofiar- 
Female. The female is similar in va of the Small Pearl- 
pattern to the male, but is rather larger, bordered Fritiilary 
and the basal area and costal margin is of (highly magnified) 
