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PLATE XLII.
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DUKE OF BURGUNDY FRITILLARY
Nemeobius lucina, STEPHENS. HOESFIELD. DUNCAN.
" " BOISDUVAL. WESTWOOD.
Hamearis lucina, HUBNEE. CUETIS. WESTWOOD.
Papilio lucina, LINN^US. LEWIN. DONOVAN.
" " HABBIS. HAWOETH.
Melitaa lucina, OCHSENHEIMEB. LEACH. JEEMYN.
"PARVUM parva decent," says the proverb, but the high-
sounding and sesquipedalian name of this small species is by no
means in harmony with its diminutive size. It is not however
my province to write a work on "Titles of Honour," nor to
give any genealogical account of the Duke of Burgundy
Fritillary. So far, however, the name is appropriate, in that
Dukes and these butterflies are alike somewhat rare, and
from my blazon of the plate it will be seen that the latter, as
is only Ducal, have numerous quarterings.
I have taken this pretty insect in tolerable plenty in the
neighbourhood of Melton Wood, near Sandbeck Park, Tickhill,
Yorkshire. It occurs also at Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and in
the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northants.; and, though rather
uncommon there, near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire;
Coombe Wood, near London; Darenth Wood, Kent; Boxhill
and Duhvich; the NeAV Forest, in Hampshire; and in Dorset­
shire and Berkshire. Mr. Hey sham has taken it as far north
as Carlisle.
It is out the beginning of June.
The caterpillar is stated by Hubner, to be found before
midsummer, after Avhich period it turns into the chrysalis
state.