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SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY
APRIL FRITILLARY.
PLATE XLVI.
Melitwa selene, STEPHENS. CURTIS. DUNCAN.
" " WESTWOOD.
Papilio selene, FABBICIUS.
" silene, HAWOBTH.
" euphrasia, LEWIN.
" euphrosyne, (var:) ESPEB. HAEEIS.
THIS is another of those insects which do not make their
appearance until the cold weather has fully passed away, and
there is no longer any danger, as is the case with other less
fortunate species, of mistaking some transient gleam of sunshine
for the established serenity of the true summer.
It frequents woods, heaths, and Avaste grounds. I hav r e taken
it in plenty in Edlinton Wood, near Doncaster, an excellent
locality, and one in which nightingales abound. Other localities
are Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of
Polebrook, Northamptonshire. It is scare near Falmouth. It
occurs also near Great BedAvvn and Sarum, Wiltshire; Ravdon
Wood and Layer Heath, near Colchester, Essex; Dartmoor, in
Devonshire; Lyndhurst, in Hampshire; NeAvcastle, in North­
umberland; and Durham, "of that Ilk."
There are two broods in the year, the one appearing in May
and June, and the second in August and September.
This insect measures in the expanse of its wings from a
little under to a very little over an inch and three quarters.
The ground colour of the fore wings is fulvous, the
base black, with a series of Avaved lines of irregular black
dots of different sizes and shapes, and outside this, from one