S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

PLATE L.
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DARK GREEN FRITILLARY.
Argynnis aglaia, OCHSENHEIMER. STEPHENS. JEEMYN.
" " DUNCAN. WESTWOOD.
Papilio aglaia, LEWIN. DONOVAN. WILKES. HARRIS.
Acidalia aglaia, HUBNEE.
THE Dark Green Fritillary frequents heaths, woods, meadows,
and downs.
Broadway, near Osberton, Nottinghamshire; Sywell Wood,
near Northampton, Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, and the
neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; the Downs
near Arundel, various parts of Suffolk; Hainault Forest, and
other places in Essex; near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wilt­
shire; the woods on the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire,
are localities for this handsome insect, but it occurs not uncom­
monly in a great many other counties throughout England,
from Hampshire to Scotland, and even in the Isle of Arran,
"both inclusive."
The perfect insect appears in July, and continues till August.
The caterpillar feeds on the dog violet, (Viola canina.J
This species expands like the last to the width of from two
inches and a quarter to a little over. The ground colour is
of a rather pale but fine fulvous, marked over with numerous
black billets, a row of round spots, another of crescents,
followed by the margin, two narrow lines running through a
row of black spots, both intersected diagonally by the black
veins of the wings; the base is dusky—the outside edge
nearly straight; the hinder wings are marked in a very similar
manner, the whole of the base dusky.
Underneath, the fore wings are marked as above, but the