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SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY. 109
arger black spot near the tip, two rows of six dots, the inner
arger and rounder, and the outer smaller and of a triangular
shape run across the wing; the margin is similarly marked
with black dots on a narrow black line, which runs all round
the outside and the base of these wings. The hind wings are
marked in a very similar manner, and their base is also black.
running into the wing, and forming the inside bordering of
the central markings.
Underneath, the fore wings are much the same as on the
upper side, but the ground colour is more dull, and the black
marks, which sheAv through, are not so large; the tip is of a
paler hue than the rest of the Avings, and it is divided by a
reddish ferruginous waved bar, running out below to the edge
in a loop. The hind wings are very elegantly marked with
reddish ferruginous, buff, and greenish straw-colour, in the
way of waved bars, formed by a wide band of the former mottled
with the latter, this by one of the greenish straw-colour, and
this by one of the latter, the base being also of the greenish
straw-colour; the central pale bar has one large spot of silver
placed diagonally across it, of an oblong, quadrangular, uneven
shape, another inside it of an oblong form, placed upright,
wedge-shaped at each end, and another divided in three by
the veins of the wing running from near the base of the former
to the upper edge of the Aving, near the outside corner; between
these three patches and the loAver corner is another horizontal
one divided by the red, near its outer and smaller portion,
and a row of crescents runs round the edge of the wing, the
middle ones silver, followed by a thin reddish line, itself
margined by a streak of the greenish straAv-colour, Avhich forms
the outside margin.
The caterpillar is black, with a pale stripe along the sides.
The spines are half yellow, and two on the neck are longer
than the others and project forward.
The chrysalis is of a dull grey colour.
This species is liable to vary considerably. Mr. Stephens
describes one specimen in which the upper surface of the wings
was Avhitish. Another, recorded as a separate species by the