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DARK GREEN FRITILLARY.
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fore wings almost entirely of a dark brownish black, except
a bright linear fulvous mark, and beyond it a much smaller
mark of the same colour, with a row of faint tawny spots
running parallel with the hinder margin. The hinder wings
have the markings considerably more distinct. Beneath, the
ground colour of the fore wings is dark ferruginous, and that
of the hind wings pea-green, with twenty-one silvery spots."
My friend, John Curtis, Esq., records a variety intermediate
between this and the preceding one. Also in the "Magazine
of Natural History," No. 26, a pale buff-coloured variety is
mentioned with the spots and markings very faint.
The engraving is from specimens in my own collection.