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PLATE LII.<br />

124<br />

VENUS FRITILLARY<br />

Argynnis aphrodite, BEEE. WESTWOOD.<br />

Papilio aphrodite, FABBICIUS.<br />

THIS is an American species, but it is unquestionable that<br />

a specimen was taken in an undoubted wild state in Upton<br />

Wood, a few miles from Leamington, Warwickshire, by James<br />

Walhouse, Esq., of that place. How it came from the "Far<br />

West" is now an undiscoverable mystery. This grand capture<br />

occurred in the summer of 1833.<br />

The expanse of the wings is nearly three inches and a quarter.<br />

The fore wings are of a rich fulvous colour, spotted and<br />

chequered over with black. The hind Avings are of the same<br />

general ground colour, with very similar markings.<br />

Underneath, the ground colour is buff, tinged with pink, the<br />

tips greenish, the dark marks shewing through. The hind wings<br />

are bronze green, but dark at their base, and lighter towards<br />

the outside; a row of semicircular silver spots follows the mar­<br />

gin, and there are numerous other silver spots.<br />

The engraving is from the figure in Mr. Westwood and<br />

Mr. Humphreys' work.

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