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SMALL TORTOISE-SHELL.
this in the direction of the outer corner, tAVo smaller ones;
the outer edge is dark buff, folloAved immediately by a black
indented stripe, in which are a series of small dark blue
crescents.
The hind Avings are also rich orange red, but all the base
is dark coloured, and they are bordered with dark buff, fol­
lowed by an indented black band, in which is a row of dark
blue crescents of larger size than those in the fore Avings, leaving
the orange as a bar across. Underneath, the markings are the
same, but the orange is changed to stone-colour; the margins
are the same, but darker, and separated from the rest by an
indented line of metallic blackish green.
The lower wings have the bar replaced by a darker stone-
colour; the margins separated by a row of crescent-shaped
dark blackish green spots.
The caterpillar is of a dull colour—a mixture of green and
brown, with paler lines doAvn the back and sides, and beset
with black spines: the head is black.
The chrysalis is brownish, with golden spots on the fore
part, and sometimes nearly entirely golden.
In varieties of this species the black spots have been more
or less enlarged or diminished, so as in some cases to be
confluent, and in others obsolete. In one figured by the Rev.
W T. Bree, of Allesley, in the "Magazine of Natural History,"
the second and third black bars on the front edge are united,
and the two round spots on the same Avings are absent, the
hind wings being uniformly obscure. A A r ery singular 'Lusus
naturae,' preserved in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, has occurred
in the Small Tortoise-shell, Mr. Doubleday having taken one
near Epping, Avith five wings, the fifth, of small size, being
affixed to one of the hinder ones, whose markings it repeated.
N hymenopterous insect with seven legs, four on one side and
three on the other, and still preserved in the cabinet of J. C.
Dale, Esq., Avas captured several years ago by my brother
Frederick Philipse Morris, Esq., in a wood near Axminster,
Devonshire.
The engravings are from specimens in my own collection.
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