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SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY. 



APRIL FRITILLARY. 



PLATE XLVI. 



MeUtoea Selene, Stephens. Cuktis. Duncan. 



" " Westwood. 



Vapilio Selene, Fabricius. 



Papilio Silene, Hawokth. 



Papilio Euplirasia, Lewin. 



Tap'iUo Etqyhrospie, (var:) EsPER. Harris. 



This is another of those insects which do not make their 

 appearance until the cold weather has fully passed away, and 

 there is no longer any danger, as is the case with other less 

 fortunate species, of mistaking some transient gleam of sunshine 

 for the established serenity of the true summer. 



It frequents woods, heaths, and waste grounds. I have taken 

 it in plenty in Edlinton Wood, near Doncaster, an excellent 

 locality, and one in which Nightingales abound. Other localities 

 are Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of 

 Polebrook, Northamptonshire. It is scarce near Falmouth. It 

 occurs also near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire; Raydon 

 Wood and Layer Heath, near Colchester, Essex; Dartmoor, in 

 Devonshire; Lyndhurst, in Hampshire; Newcastle, in North- 

 umberland; and Durham, "of that Ilk." 



There are two broods in the year, the one appearing in May 

 and June, and the second in August and September. 



This insect measures in the expanse of its wings from a 

 little under to a very little over an inch and three-quarters. 

 The ground colour of the fore wings is fulvous, the 

 base black, with a series of waved lines of irregular black 

 dots of different sizes and shapes, and outside this, from one 



