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112 PEARL-BORDERED LIKENESS FRITILLARY.
This species is a little over an inch and a half, and from
that to three quarters, in the expanse of its wings. The fore
wings are fulvous, blackish brown at the base, and waved all
over with blackish brown lines, intersected by others running
through to the border, which is blackish brown, edged with
yelloAvish white, and indented by the blackish colour. The
hind wings are very similar to the fore ones in their markings
in all respects.
Underneath, the fore wings are paler fulvous, with a few
slight blackish brown marks, indicating the situation of some
of the principal markings on the upper side; the tip is straw-
colour, which runs some way along the margin, crescented on
the inside and across by black lines, crossed by a waved
longitudinal line following the edge, and intersected by others
running into it, and reaching to the border. The hind wings
are very elegantly marked; a Avhitish cream-coloured bar runs
across them, crossed and margined with blackish brown lines;
the base is reddish brown, but is very much mottled over
with a continuation of the whitish cream-colour; the bar is
succeeded by another narrow waved bar of fulvous crescents,
margined with black, and outside this is a darker cream-coloured
scolloped bar, tinged with yelloAvish, and edged round each
division with blackish brown, which lines run through to the
edge, which is also cream yellow, divided from the last-named
bar by two lines, one straight and the other crescented.
The caterpillar is spined, and black, with two white dotted
lines on each segment, and white tubercles on the sides.
One variety of this insect, described by several authors as
a distinct species, under the name of 'Melitcea pyronia,' a
specimen having been taken by Mr. Howard, at Peckham, in
Surrey, in June, 1803, is described by Mr. Westwood as rather
more than an inch and a half in expanse, with the fore Avings
above deep fulvous; the veins, blots in the middle, a waved
streak, and the marginal bar, black; the hind wings above,
black, with a waved bar of six fulvous spots beyond the
middle; beneath, the fore wings are fulvous, but paler at the
tips, Avith tAvo black spots at the base, and a broad black bar