40 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTF.RA. 



Caterpillar dusky, with a pale line clown the back, and a row of eight square 

 red spots along each side : it feeds solitarily on the Viola canina (dog's violet). 

 Chrysalis red, varied with brown. 



A common species throughout the south of Britain, which I 

 have received from Devonshire, and captured in plenty at Dover, 

 and in several intermediate places. It affects woods, meadows, 

 heaths, and downs, and is found in July and August. The 

 varieties /3 and 7 are both referable to the Pa. Charlotta of Ha- 

 worth; the former being the description of the typical variety, 

 the latter that of an evident variety of Ar. Aglaia, beautifully ex- 

 hibiting the variable nature of this species and the insufficiency of 

 the mere confluence ox absence of spots or lines to constitute a 

 specific difference. 

 Sp. 5. Paphia. Alisfulvis, yiigro-maculatis, posticis subttis virescentikusfasciis 



quatn.ir argenteis. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 8 lin. — 3 unc.) 

 Pa. Paphia. Lhine.—Lewin, pi. 9.— Ar. Paphia. Stcph. Catal. 

 Wings above fulvous in the male, virescent in the female, with numerous lon- 

 gitudinal and transverse black lines and bars, and a triple series of mar- 

 ginal black spots : anterior wings beneath paler and less spotted, particularly 

 at the tips, which are greenish ; the posterior wings are greenish beneath, 

 with four irregular narrow pale-silvery waved bands, the first and second of 

 which are anteriorly abbreviated, the third below the middle, reaching to the 

 anal angle of the wing, the fourth marginal : between the two last bands is a 

 series of ocelli, with a green iris and pale pupil, and on the margin is a row 

 of green crescents : the cilia of all the wings above are fulvous interrupted by 

 black, beneath paler, interrupted by ferruginous ; the body is fiUvous above, 

 grayish beneath : the antennae are brownish, with the club black, tipped with 

 fulvous. 

 }• Var. P. Female with the wings above deep virescent, with some whitish 



spots at the tips of the anterior. 

 The male has four dilated longitudinal nervures on the anterior, and two on 

 the posterior wings : the female is greenish above, and the spots are usually 

 larger than in the male. 

 Caterpillar brownish, with a longitudinal line of yellow spots on the back : — it 

 feeds solitarily on the Viola canina (dog's violet), Rubus idceus (raspberry), 

 and Urtica dioica (nettle). The chrysalis is grayish, with golden protu- 

 berances. 



An abundant species in woods and meadows, and generally dis- 

 tributed throughout the south. It delights in settling on bramble- 

 blossoms. 



Genus XI. — Vanessa, Fabricius. 

 Pa/pi contiguous, porrected obliquely, terminated gradually in a point, and 



