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PLATE LIII.
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SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY.
Argynnis paphia, FABRICIBS. OCHSENHEITJER. STEPHENS.
" WESTWOOD. CURTIS. DUNCAN.
Papilio paphia, LINN^US. LEWIN. DONOVAN.
" " WILKES. HARRIS.
Argyronome paphia, HUBNEE.
THIS is a plentiful species in woods, in the south of England
especially, but it extends northwards also to Scotland. A few
of its localities are the "Dukeries," near Osberton, Nottingham­
shire; Hainault Forest, Essex; Barnwell and Ashton Wold,
and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; in
Langham Woods, near Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, very abundantly;
also, rather uncommonly, near Great Bedwyn and Sarum,
Wiltshire, as J. W Lukis, Esq. tells me; and in the woods on
the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire, as James Dalton,
Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has written me word.
The perfect insect appears the beginning of July.
The caterpillar feeds on the violet, nettle, and raspberry.
This Fritillary expands in the width of its wings from about
two inches and three quarters to nearly three inches. The
fore wings are rich fulvous, with numerous blackish spots and
bars, the latter horizontal, and of the former there are three
rows, following the outside edge of the wing, the inner row
the largest sized, and the outer one on the edge, with a dark
line running through them. The hind Avings are of the like
ground colour, with also three rows of larger spots, the inner
rounded, the next bell-shaped, and within the three tAvo waved
blackish lines, meeting together near the lower part of the
inner one.
Underneath, the fore wings are paler in colour, the outer
corner dashed with metallic green; of the dark marks, some