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lowing, arc also silver: beyond the marginal band of lunules the wing is pale 

 fulvous: the eilia above iulvous, interrupted by black, beneath butt-colour, 

 spotted with ferruginous : body dusky above, yellowish-white beneath : an- 

 tennffi brownish, with the tip of the club tawny. The male is usually lighter 

 in colour, and is distinguished by two dilated discoidal nervures on the an- 

 terior wings. 



Var. /?. The silver spots on the tip of the anterior wings, and the lunulatcd 

 «pots on the margin of the posterior, replaced by buff-colour. 



t Var. y. The anterior wings on both surfaces with a large black patch in the 

 centre, formed by the confluence of the black spots. 



i aterpillar tine red or olive-green, with a white dorsal line, edged with black 

 dots : it feeds on the Viola odorata and V. tricolor. Chrysalis reddish, spotted 

 with silver :— the perfect insect appears in about fifteen days. 



Not quite so abundant as Ar. Aglaia, but frequently met with 

 in the woods near London, at the end of June and throut^liout 

 July. It is also found in Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Bedfordshire, 

 Berks, Dorset, Devon, and Hants ; in the latter county very com- 

 monly in the New Forest. 



Sp. 4>. Aglaia. Alis ftilris, n'hjro-mnculntis, posticis svhtiis vircsccnti-flavidis 



maculis plurimis argcntcis. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. t— 10 lin.) 

 Pa. Aglaia. Linni: — Lcwiii,pl. 11. — Ar. Aglaia. — S/c/ift. Catal. 



Very similar to Ar. Adippe above, but rather paler, with the marginal band on 

 the wings more distinct : anterior wings beneath also resembling those of the 

 preceding insect, with the tips greenish, and bearing more silver spots on the 

 hinder margin : posterior wings green, with the anterior margin of the costal 

 areolet, the marginal half of the inner abdominal areolet, and the tip of the 

 following one, silver ; at the base of the wing are six or seven silver spots, of 

 which the three basal ones are smallest ; behind these, and parallel with the 

 hinder margin, is a bent band, composed of seven unequal silver spots; and 

 on the margin is another band of seven equal silver spots, the latter edged 

 with green, the former with a narrow black line on tlieir anterior margin : 

 between the two rows of silver spots there is a clear yellowish-bufi^ fascia, and 

 a spot of the same colour towards the centre of the wing : body and antenna? 

 as in Adippe : the male has also two dilated nervures on the anterior wings, 

 and the female is distinguished by being darker, and having a row of yel- 

 lowish spots on the marginal band of the wings. 



f Var. JS. Similar to var. c, except that one of the numeral characters on the 

 costa of the anterior wings on both surfaces is obliterated by its confluence 

 with the next ; and the six basal silver spots on the under side of the posterior 

 wings are united into three larger ones. 



f Var. y. Similar to the last beneath ; but each spot of (lie series of round spots, 

 which run parallel with the hinder margins of both wings, is united with the 

 corresponding marginal lunule, giving tlic appearance of a series of busts on 

 the edge of the wings. 



