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Melitoea cinxia,<br />
it<br />
Papilio<br />
a<br />
a<br />
a<br />
a<br />
it<br />
104<br />
GLANVILLE FRITILLARY<br />
a<br />
cinxia,<br />
a<br />
delia,<br />
pilosella,<br />
trivia,<br />
abbacus,<br />
PLATE XLIV.<br />
OCHSENHEIMEB. BOISDUVAL.<br />
STEPHENS. CUETIS. WESTWOOD.<br />
LINN.EUS. LEWIN. DONOVAN.<br />
WILKES. HABRIS.<br />
HUBNER.<br />
ESPER.<br />
ScHRANK.<br />
KETZIUS.<br />
THIS butterfly is a very local one, so that its capture must<br />
be regarded as a "great fact" in the experience of by far<br />
the greater number of entomologists.<br />
J. W Lukis informs me that this extremely interesting<br />
insect is taken, though very rarely, in the neighbourhood of<br />
Great BedAvyn and Sarum, Wiltshire. It seems to be most<br />
plentiful near Ryde and other places in the Isle of Wight,<br />
on the grassy sides of the little glens Avhich run down to the<br />
sea-shore. One was captured by Mr. Walhouse near Leamington,<br />
in Warwickshire; Dover, Dartford, and Birclrwood, in Kent,<br />
are also given as localities for it; it is said also to have<br />
occurred in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.<br />
The Glanville Fritillary appears the end of May, and in<br />
June and July.<br />
"The caterpillars are found," says Mr. Westwood, "in the<br />
autumn, living in societies under a kind of tent formed by<br />
drawing together the tips of the leaves on Avhich they feed,<br />
and covering them with a web."<br />
This butterfly varies in the expanse of its Avings from a<br />
little under to a little over one inch and three quarters. The<br />
fore Avings are of a rich fulvous ground colour, elegantly
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