Plate XV. fig. 3. 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ.
GENUS. ARGYNNIS, _Fab. Latr. God._ Argyreus, _Scop._ Papilio (Danai
Festiv.), _Drury._
ARGYNNIS ERYMANTHIS. Alis subrotundatis, subdentatis, fulvis, anticis
fasciâ flavescenti transversâ mediâ nigro maculatâ, apice nigris;
posticis serie punctorum, duabusque lunularum nigrorum. (Expans. Alar,
fere 3 unc. [_Drury_], 2 unc. [_Enc. Méth._]).
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Erymanthis, _Drury_, _App. v._ 2. _Cramer_,
_pl._ 238. _fig._ 9. _Fab. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 139. 427. _Enc.
Méth._ ix. 257.
Papilio Lampetia, _Cram. Pap. pl._ 148 _fig._ E.
HABITAT: China (_Drury_). Coromandel, Java (_Enc. Méth._).
_Upper Side._ Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings, next
the body, of a dark tawny orange, which colour occupies about half the
wings, and is bounded by a very irregular line. A broad black patch
occupies the tips of the wings, beginning about the middle of the
anterior edge, and extends along the external one to the interior angle;
on which, near the tips, are two clay-coloured round spots; and below
them, in some specimens, are two more spots near the external edge. The
space between the black patch and the tawny orange is of a clay colour,
with three round black spots on it, the lower one the largest. Posterior
wings tawny orange, the posterior edges being of a dirty brown; and above
them are seen two rows of black crescents irregularly placed, over these
are five round black spots. The wings are slightly dentated, the inferior
ones most.
_Under Side._ All the wings clay colour. A dark, faint, engrailed line,
composed of a number of crescents, joined together, runs transversely
across the superior and inferior wings, extending to the anal angle.