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Lloyd's natural history. 



spots across the centre, a row of silvery spots on the hind margin, 

 and several more towards the base. 



The larva feeds on dog-violet in May and June. It is 

 brownish-black, yellowish on the back, with a row of quad- 

 rate lateral red spots, one on each side of each segment, except 



Under side of the variety of the Female called A. charlotta. 



the two near the base. The pupa is reddish, with waved 

 streaks of brown. 



This species is not only one of the commonest, but one of 

 the most widely-distributed throughout Europe and Asia ; and 

 some of the Himalayan, and even Californian, forms resemble 

 it so closely that many entomologists have regarded them as 

 identical. 



The variety called A. charlotta has very large silvery spots 

 towards the base ; it is purely accidental, and not common. 



THE HIGH P.ROWN FRITILLARY. ARGYNNIS ADIPPE. 

 {Plate XI II., Figs, i, 2.) 

 Papilio aJippe, Linn., Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), p. 786, no. 212 

 (1767); Esper, Schmett., i. (1), p. 232, pi. iS, fig. 1., p. 369, 

 pi. 43, fig. 2 ; i. (2), p. 58, pi. 60, fig. 3, p. 120, pis. 74, 

 75, figs. 1, 2 (i777)- 



