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we cannot forbear to enquire into tlie meaning and purpose of such a 

 plienonienon. And here I at least am unaltle to find any other reply 

 than this : tliat tlie beauty of butterflies serves to enliven and embellish, 

 and tJiereby, like all other beauties of nature, to do its part in the cultiva- 

 tion of the human mind and heart. With this view agrees the fact that it 

 is precisely those that fly by day, when man is most in the open air, and 

 beauty can be the more readily observed, that are the most beautiful ; and 

 the further fact that their colors, on the upper surface, as that which 

 presents itself most prominently to the eye, as a rule contrast with the 

 objects on which they settle or about which they flutter, by which means 

 the effect is decidedly strengthened, and by which they are essentially dis- 

 tinguished from those Lepidoptera that fly by night, where the exact 

 opposite is generally true." (Der schmetterling und sein leben, 115.) 



EUPTOIETA CLAUDIA.— The variegated fritillary. 



[The variegated fratillary (Gosf<e) ; pale red ])utterfly (Maynard)]. 



Papilio cZartrZirt Cram., Pap. exot., i : 109, Papilio clausius Herbst, Natursyst. ins. 



pi. 69, tigs.E. F. (17T9). schmett., ix : 189-190, pi. 257, figs. 3-4 (1796). 



Dryasfucata Claudia 'E.n\n\.,^^\n\\\\.e-s.oi. Papilio datinius Jierhat, Natursyst. ins. 



schmett., i. Lep. i,Pap. i, Nymph, iv, Dryad. schmett., ix : 184-185, pi. 2.56, figs. 1-2 (1798). 

 B, fuc. a, figs. 1-4 (1806). Papilio mariamne Abb., Draw. ins. Geo. 



Brentliis claudia Hiibn.. Verz. schmett., Brit, mus., vi: 31, figs. 36-37; xvi: 29, tab. 65. 



30 (1816). (ca. 1800.) 



Argynnis claudia Douljl., Catal. Lep. Brit. Argynnis columbina God., Encycl. m6th., 



mus., i : 67 (1844). ix : 252, 260 (1819) ;— Boisd.-LeC, L6p. Am6r. 



Euptoieta clatidia Doubl.-Hewits., Gen. sept.. 15.3-154, pi. 44. figs. 1-4 (1833); —Morr. 



diurn. Lep., i : 170 (1848) ; — Chen.-Luc, Syn. Lep. N. Amer., 44 (1862). 

 Encycl. hist, nat., Pap.,90, fig. 192 (1853);— 



Edw.,Can.ent.,xii: 231-235 (1880);— French, Figured by Abbot, Draw. ins. Ga., Gray 



Rep. ins. 111., vii: 150-151 (1878) ; Butt. east. Coll. Bost.soc. nat. hist., 51 ; Oemler coll., ibid., 



U.S., 165-168, fig. 43 (1886) ;— Middl., Rep. ins. 11;— Glov., 111. X. A. Lep., pi. 1. fig. 10; pi. 



111., x: 80 (1881) ; — Fern., Butt. Me., 44-4 5 36, fig. 1, ined. 

 (1884) ;— Mayn., Butt. X. E., 21-22, pi. 4, tig. [Not Papilio columbina Fabr.] 



24, 24a (1886). 



Some finished butterfly. 

 Some breathing diamond-flake with leaf-gold fans, 

 That takes the air, no trace of worm it was. 



Browning.— TAe Ring and the Book. 



Imago (14:4). Head covered profusely with pretty long, loose, delicate, dark 

 olivacous, fulvous and blackish hairs, which form also lateral tufts upon the basal 

 four or five joints of the antennae ; sides and under surface covered with fulvous 

 and black scales, excepting a border of white scales next the posterior and lower por- 

 tion of the eye, which broadens below and sometimes occupies nearly the whole of this 

 part of the head, to the almost complete exclusion of the fulvous scales ; palpi with 

 the basal joint white, the middle joint white beneath, on the lower half externally and 

 the basal half of the middle internally ; the rest and the apical joint foxy fulvous, 

 mingled with blackish, hair-like scales, the inner surf ace paler ; bristles of the inferior 

 fringe black when they issue from a white base, or fulvous when they do not ; an- 

 tennae dark luteo-fulvous, heavily flecked above with very minute blackish scales, 



