![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2014/14may2014a.jpg)
That's about 1300m, so my violet coppers, at 1700m, will certainly be under snow.
Another cold, wet day, with more chance of treading on a butterfly than seeing one, so Minnie and I went to the Papiliorama. They provide free kennel facilities there, so after she'd had a little walk I left her and went into the warmth. Because of our walk in the cold and wet, it took longer for my camera to acclimatise and I missed good photos of the upperside of a new species for me, Parides photinus:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/photinus14may2014a.jpg)
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/photinus14may2014c.jpg)
This is its close relative, Parides eurimedes:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/eurimedes14may2014a.jpg)
Parides iphidamus was also flying.
A second new species, that I haven't got round to identifying yet, was this:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/mysterypapiliorama14may2014a.jpg)
A few more piccies to brighten the rainy day:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/thoas14may2014a.jpg)
There are three Papilio thoas in that picture, two mating and one trying to get in on the act. After he left them the other two resumed reading their Kama Sutra and adopted a new position:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/thoas14may2014b.jpg)
Elsewhere, their cousins, Papilio palinurus, were doing it differently:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/palinurus14may2014a.jpg)
Anartia amathea:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/amathea14may2014a.jpg)
This is one of two empty chrysalids I found of Dryadula phaetusa:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/phaetusachrys14may2014a.jpg)
Several freshly emerged adults were flying around. Here is one:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/phaetusa14may2014a.jpg)
And this rather fine silk moth is Rothschildia arethusa:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/papiliorama/rothschildiaarethusa14may2014a.jpg)
When we got back I took Minnie on a proper walk to see cats in the rain. Here is a white admiral:
![Image](http://www.guypadfield.com/images2014/camillacat14may2014a.jpg)
Things might get drier in the next few days ...
Guy