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LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



When I first met with these species, I took B. euphrosyne in 

 a clearing in a wood in Sussex ; and on revisiting the spot a few 

 days later, took B. selcne. I afterwards took the latter species 

 by the side of a wood close to Brighton, where I never saw 





Under side of a variety of B. sckne. 



B. euphrosyne ; and I have always found B. selene far more 

 abundant than B. euphrosyne near Diisseldoif, in Germany, 

 especially in autumn, when it is one of the commonest Butter- 

 flies in the woods. 



weaver's fritillary. brenthis dia. 

 {Plate. XIV., Fig. 5, 6.) 



rapilio dia, Linnajus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i., pt. 2, p. 7S5, no. 



277 (1767); Espcr, Schmett, i., pt. 1, p. 221, pi. 14, 



fig. 4; i., pt. 2, p. 66, pi. 61, fig. 2 (1777). 

 Melitcea dia, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, i., p. 34 (1S27). 

 Argynnis dia, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 18, pi. 9, 



fig. 1 (1878) ; Lang, Butterflies Eur., p. 203, pi. 4S, 



fig. 1 (1SS3) ; Barrett, Lepid. Brit. Isl., i., p. 1S3 



(!8 9 2). 



The present species derives its English name from Richard 

 Weaver, a celebrated collector and dealer in English insects, 

 who flourished fifty or sixty years ago. He had a specimen 

 which he believed to have been taken by himself in Sutton 



