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GLANVILLE FRITILLARY. 



PLATE XLIV. 



Melifaea Cinxia, Ochsenheimee. Boisduval. 



" " Stephens, Curtis. Westwood. 



Pap'ilio Cinxia, Linn^exts. Lewin. Donovan. 



" " Wilkes. Harris. 



JPajoilio Delia, Hubner. 



JPapilio Pilosellce, Esper. 



Papilio Trivia, Schrank. 



Fapilio Abbacus, Eetzius. 



This butterfly is a very local one, so that its capture must 

 be regarded as a ''great fact" in the experience of by far 

 the srreater number of entomolosfists. 



J. W. Lukis informs me that this extremely interesting 

 insect is taken, though very rarely, in the neighbourhood of 

 Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire. It seems to be most 

 plentiful near Ryde and other places in the Isle of Wight, 

 on the grassy sides of the little glens w^hich run down to the 

 sea-shore. One was captured by Mr. Walhouse near Leamington, 

 in Warwickshire; Dover, Dartford, and Birchwood, in Kent, 

 are also given as localities for it; it is said also to have 

 occurred in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 



The Glanville Fritillary appears the end of May, and in 

 June and July. 



"The caterpillars are found," says Mr. Westwood, "in the 

 autumn, living in societies under a kind of tent formed by 

 drawing together the tips of the leaves on which they feed, 

 and covering them with a web." 



This butterfly varies in the expanse of its wings from a 

 little under to a little over one inch and three-quarters. The 

 fore wings are of a rich fulvous ground colour, elegantly 



