NYMPHALID^. i8j 



tremely rare in Ireland, but Mr. E. Birchall recorded a single 

 specimen from Edenderry, King's County. 



Common in Central and Northern Europe and Northern 

 and Eastern Asia. 



[A. Dia, L. — Very similar to A. Eiqjhrosjinc on the upper 

 side. Under side of hind wings with some silvery spots 

 before the middle and along the hind margin, but beyond 

 the middle much suffused with purplish, and with a row of 

 large elongated purple-black spots. 



The earliest record of this species, in this country, was of a 

 specimen found in a case of insects obtained from Eichard 

 Weaver, of Birmingham, one of the most noted of the older 

 collectors of insects for sale. This specimen appears to have 

 been unnoticed by him. Mr. E. Newman says Ihat " the 

 case passed out of his hands without his knowing that this 

 species was in it " ; also that he " never positively asserted that 

 he knew where it came from, but thought he must have taken 

 it in a wood near Birmingham." Sutton Coldfield was the 

 locality given, the date apparently somewhat doubtful. 



In the year 1857 a second specimen was recorded by the 

 Eev. Bernard Smith, of Marlow, as having been knocked down 

 by a boy, and brought to him by the Hon. C. A. Ellis, who 

 presented the specimen to him. JNIr. Ellis subsequently con- 

 firmed this, mentioning the time and place where the capture 

 was made— the middle of September, in the Rev. S. Hodson's 

 garden at Cookham Deane,near Maidenhead — and stating that 

 he killed and set it himself. 



In 1876, in the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, Mr. W. 

 Arnold Lewis stated : " I have to announce an undoubtedly 

 British example of this fritillary. It is a female, and was 

 taken in 1872, at Worcester Park, Surrey, by a connection of 

 my own, Master Wallace A. Smith. He could not identify 

 his capture, and placed it apart by itself. Very recently, on 

 my looking over his insects, he drew my attention to the 

 specimen as something peculiar ; he perfectly recollects 



