TWh. l.i;i'll)01'TKK.\ OF IvSSlCX. 85 



ii. 1S2). One, Colchester, Aui;., 1858 (//<7/-7fvv;</; E.IP\L iv. 194). 

 One, Colchester, end of Sept., 1865 {/lanvood ; P.E.S.L. 2nd 

 Oct., 1865). One, Colchester Aug. 15th, 1868 {^Harwood ; 

 E.M.M. V. 106; Efit. iv. 146). Another, Colchester, Sept., 1868 {J/ar- 

 wood ; E.M.M. v. 131 ; E/ii. iv. 161). "I have taken four in different 

 years in the neighbourhood of Colchester, and have seen three others 

 taken, two of them by one of my brothers ; Mr. W. Harrington and 

 Mr. Robert Halls have each taken single specimens ; others have 

 been taken at Berechurch by the late Dr. Maclean and Mr. Law- 

 rence lilack " [should be Brock] I^Hartvood ; B.B. 34). One, St. 

 O.syth, Sept. 14th, 1881 {Hanvood ; Ent. xiv. 232). One, Brain- 

 tree, Sept. 19th, 1865 {B. Holland ; Ent. ii. 31 1»). Three, South- 

 end, 1868 (y. Russell ; Ent. iv. 160). One, Rainham, Oct., 1870 

 (/' Venablcs ; Ent. v. 212). Near Sudbury {Gaze ; Z. xx. 7971). 

 " Said to have been once taken on the Newton Road, Sudbury " 

 ( IK D. King?; E.S.J. Dec, 1838). 



This rare species has also been taken at Stoke-by-Nayland 

 {Jerinyn ; V.M. 67) and Felixstowe (^«/. vi. 192), just over the 

 Suffolk border. 



Argynnis aglaia, L. Dark-green Fritillary. 



Geographical Distribution — Europe, 1 North, West, and East Asia. Common on 

 the Continent, but local in Britain. 



Larva — Grej'ish-back, double yelK)w line on back, orange-red spots on sides ; 

 spines black. Food — Dog violet. Imago — June to August ; hibernates as lar\a. 



Rare ; on commons, heaths, and rough hill-sides. Local and 

 apparently disappearing from the county. 



Lexden Heath, Birch Wood, near Dedham, Bromley Thickets, 

 \\'rabness Cliff {Jermyn ; V.M. 67). Southend {Harwood ; B.B. 

 28) [doubtful?]. Sudbury (/. Grubb ; B.B. 29). I once saw a 

 large Fritillary at Colne Point, St. Osyth, which I beheve was this 

 species ; it might have been A. lathonia {Fitch). Woods ne-^r Bergholt, 

 over fifty years ago {H. Dcmbleday, in letter to IV. H. Hanvood). 



Argynnis adippe, L. High-brown Fritillary. 



Geographical Distribution — F!urope (except polar regions), Asia (probabl)- to 

 China and Japan). Absent from Scotland and Ireland. 



Larva — Reddish-ochreous, interrupted whitish lines on back, \elvet)-black 

 transverse streaks along sides ; spines rusty brown. Food — \^iolet and heartsease. 

 /mag} — July ; hibernates as larva. From Buckler's " Larvae " this seems doubtful ; 

 he had eggs laid Aug. 25th, 1S77 ; hatched, March, 1S78 ; and again eggs laid 

 .\ug. 7lh, 1882 ; hatched Feb. I4ih, iXSv 



