Archive image from page 337 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( PAPILIONINA [amosia of long tentacles. Both larva and imago are protected by a strong nauseous scent or taste, and are uneatable to birds. 1. A. erippus, Cr. (wrchippus, F.; Iplexipput, L.) 95-102 mm. Forewings deep brownish-orange, veins marked with blackish streaks; a blackish border all round, on costa with some white spots towards middle, on termen with a double row of whitish spots; a blackish costal blotch beyond middle, enclosing about five ochreons-ora
Archive image from page 337 of A handbook of British lepidoptera. A handbook of British lepidoptera CUbiodiversity1126142 Year: 1895 ( PAPILIONINA [amosia of long tentacles. Both larva and imago are protected by a strong nauseous scent or taste, and are uneatable to birds. 1. A. erippus, Cr. (wrchippus, F.; Iplexipput, L.) 95-102 mm. Forewings deep brownish-orange, veins marked with blackish streaks; a blackish border all round, on costa with some white spots towards middle, on termen with a double row of whitish spots; a blackish costal blotch beyond middle, enclosing about five ochreons-orange spots. Hind wings with colour, veins, and terminal band as in forewings; in <J a black glandular spot on vein 2 before its middle. Wings beneath paler, especially hindwinga, white spots larger. Kent to Cornwall, an occasional immigrant since 1876; W. coast of Europe (an immigrant only), N. and S. America, Pacific Islands to Celebes, E. Australia, New Zealand; 8-10. Larva black, banded with yellow and white ; two long black dorsal tentacles on 2, two others shorter on 12 : on Asclepias; 5-8. Pupa very stout, pale green, marked with golden-metallic and black. Indigenous to America; elsewhere it has spread since 1870 or thereabouts, but is now established where its food-plant is found. 2. Arqynnis, /''. Eyes glabrous. Club of antennae abrupt. Forewings : 10 separate or out of 7. Hindwings with transverse vein present. A considerable genus, ranging through most of the Northern hemisphere, with a small outlying group in the mountains of Chili, and one species in C. Africa; in warmer latitudes the species are alpine. Larva with six series of strong bristly spines. Pupa often with angular prominences and golden-metallic spots. 1. Hindwings beneath with suffused silvery streaks 1. pa/phia, Hindwings beneath witli duration or/fwinisodtp,. distinct silvery spots 2. 2. Hindwings beneath with spots in subterminal band .' . . .3. ,, without spots in subterminal band 3. aylaia.
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