_Under Side._ The wings are rather paler than on the upper side. A small irregular line begins about the middle of the anterior edge of the superior wings, and running cross them and the inferior ones, meets below the body. The anterior wings have a distinct dark spot, and also a faint one. The posterior ones have two distinct red and black spots, and another very faint. PLATE VI. [Illustration] ARGYNNIS NIPHE. Plate VI. fig. 1. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains_. GENUS. ARGYNNIS, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Argyreus, p. _Scopoli_. Papilio (Nymphal. Phalerati), _Linn. Drury_. ARGYNNIS NIPHE. Alis supra luteis nigro maculatis, anticis ad apicem coerulescenti-nigris fasciâ albâ transversâ; posticis subtus viridi, argenteo, nigroque variis, strigâ quinque ocellorum notatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Niphe, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. 785. _No._ 208. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 142. _No._ 436. HABITAT: China. _Upper Side._ The anterior wings near the base are of a brown olive. About half the wings (from the lower angle upwards) are of a dark blue, with many different shaped spots on them, and a white bar running from the anterior edge towards the external one, which, being intersected by the black tendons of the wing, appears like three steps. All the wings are dentated or scolloped. The posterior ones are of a clay colour, with many black spots on them, of various forms. A black border runs along the external edges, narrowed as it approaches the external angle, on which appear two rows of blue spots like crescents, whose convex sides are placed opposite each other. _Under Side._ The white bar on the anterior wings appears as on the upper side, from whence to the tips is an olive colour, whereon are some silver spots; the remainder as on the upper side. The posterior wings are of an olive hue, finely variegated with some white silvery spots and marks. A line of this colour runs along the external edges almost close to the scollops, and above that are five round spots of a darker olive, with small white dots in their centres. {13}ARGYNNIS TEPHNIA. Plate VI. fig. 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains_. GENUS. ARGYNNIS, _Fab. Latr. God._ Papilio (Nymph. Phalerat.), _Linn. Drury_. ARGYNNIS TEPHNIA. Alis subrotundatis dentatis, supra luteis nigro maculatis, posticis subtus viridi argenteo nigroque variegatis serie quinque ocellorum. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Argynnis, _Drury, App. v._ 2. _Herbst. Pap. t._ 254. _f._ 5. 6. Papilio Niphe, var. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 142. P. Niphe mas. _Cramer, Pap._ 2. _pl._ 14. _f._ D. E. Argynnis Tephnia, _Latr. et God. Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 262. _No._ 18. HABITAT: China.