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.
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.