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cult to try to capture it without the risk of tearing or entangling 

 the net. 



THE DARK GREEN FRITILLARY. ARGYNNIS AGLAIA. 

 {Plate XII., Figs, i, 2.) 



rapilio aglaia, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. x.), i., p. 481, no. 140 

 (175S); id., Faun. Suec. (ed. ii.), p. 2S1 (1761) ; Esper, 

 Schmett, i. (i), p. 229, pi. 17, fig. 3 ; i. (2), p. 57, pi. 60, 

 fig. 2 (1777). 



Argyiuiis aglaia, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust., i., p. 39 (1S27); 

 Curtis, Brit. Ent, vii., pi. 290 (1S30) ; Kirby, Eur. Butter- 

 flies and Moths, p. 21, pi. 9, figs. 4a-d (1S7S); Lang, 

 Butterflies Eur., p. 200, pi. 50, fig. 1 (18S3); Buckler, 

 Larvae Brit. Butterflies and Moths, i., p. 71, pi. 10, fig. 3 

 (1SS6); Barrett, Lepid. Brit. IsL, i., p. 167, pi. 24 (1892). 



Var. Papilio charlotta, Haworth, Lepid. Brit., i., p. 32, no. 37 

 (1803); Sowerby, Brit. Miscelk, i., pi. 11 (1S06). 



The Dark Green Fritillary is the commonest and most widely- 

 distributed of our larger Fritillaries, and is found in meadows 

 and on heaths, frequently settling on flowers, though capable 

 of a strong and sustained flight. It is met with in June and 

 July. 



It generally measures from 2*.{ to 2^ inches across the 

 wings, which are fulvous on the upper surface, and darker, with 

 a slight greenish shade, in the female. The base is more or 

 less black, and the hind-margins are black, with a festooned 

 black line running round them, enclosing fulvous spots. Within 

 this is a transverse series of larger round spots ; and nearer the 

 base are more black spots and short streaks in the cell and be- 

 tween the nervures. The fore-wings are fulvous beneath, with 

 the tip and hind-margin greenish, more or less spotted with 

 silver. The hind-wings are greenish, with a band of silvery 



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