38 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



above remarkable year for the appearance of certain papilionaceous 

 insects, this species occurred simultaneously in several, and very 

 distant, parts, having been taken in August by Mr. Haworth at 

 Halvergate, in Norfolk ; by Mr. Vigors, in Battersea-fields ; by my- 

 self at Dover, and during that and the following month near Col- 

 chester ; Birch-wood, Kent ; and Hertford in plenty by others. 

 At the latter place I saw several specimens, but was not fortunate 

 enough to secure any. In Petiver's time it was not very rare in 

 Gamlingay-wood, Cambridgeshire, in May; but all the recently 

 recorded British examples have occurred tov/ards the autumn; 

 whence it would appear to be double-brooded, a fact which is ap- 

 parently corroborated by the captures of 1818. The first specimen 

 (a female) I caught on the 12th of August, sporting at the foot of 

 Shakspeare's Cliff, was in a very faded state, and had evidently 

 been " winging its way" for many weeks : a pair which I took on 

 the 14th, in the Castle-meadow, Dover, were also in a faded con- 

 dition : whereas the specimens taken near Birch-wood, at the end 

 of September, were remarkably fine. Godart, however, tells us, 

 that the last autumnal specimens hybernate and reappear in the 

 spring — an anomalous event amongst the Fritillaries, thereby ap^ 

 proximating in habits to the Vanessse. 



Sp. 3. Aclippe. Alisfulvis nigro-maculatis, pnsticis snhtus ferrugineo-flavidis 

 rnacidis plurimis argenteis,strigfi(iue ocellorumferragineorum, ter vel quatunr^ 

 pupilld argentefi. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 6—9 lin.) 



Pa. Adippe. Linne. — Lcwin,pl. 10.— Ar. Adippe. — Stcph. Cufal. 



Wings above fine orange-tawny, with the base sprinkled with greenish, with 

 one unequal zigzag black streak passing through the middle, followed poste- 

 riorly with a transverse row of round black spots, of very unequal sizes, and, 

 in some specimens, one or more wanting ; then a series of lunules of the same 

 colour pointing outwards ; the margin black, with a row of narrow fulvous 

 dashes : on the costa of the anterior wings, towards the base, are four irregvilar 

 dashes, resemUing the figures 1358 (as rudely sculptured about that period of 

 the christian era), and on the posterior wings is a horseshoe-shaped black 

 dash, sometimes accompanied by a round spot placed internally : beneath, the 

 anterior wings differ in being less brilliant, and in wanting the greenish base ; 

 the exterior black border is wanting, and at the tip are a few silvery spots : 

 the posterior wings are ferruginous, varied with yellowish, with six or seven 

 different shaped dispersed silver spots near the base; then a zigzag band 

 of seven square silver spots, the central one smallest, followed by a streak of 

 about seven rusty-red round spots, some of which have silver pupils ; lastly, 

 a marginal baud of seven rather conical silver spots, entirely edged with ferru- 

 jj;mous ; the cobla at the base, the abdominal areolet, and the tip of the fol- 



