112 PEARL-BORDERED LIKE>JESS FRITILLARY. 



This species is a little over an inch and a half, and from 

 that to three-quarters, in the expanse of its wings. The fore 

 wings are fulvous, blackish brown at the base, and waved all 

 over with blackish brown lines, intersected by others running 

 through to the border, which is blackish brown, edged with 

 yellowish white, and indented by the blackish colour. The 

 hind wings are very similar to the fore ones in their markings 

 in all respects. 



Underneath, the fore wings are paler fulvous, with a few 

 slight blackish brown marks, indicating the situation of some 

 of the principal markings on the upper side; the tip is straw- 

 colour, which runs some way along the margin, crescented on 

 the inside and across by black lines, crossed by a waved 

 longitudinal line following the edge, and intersected by others 

 running into it, and reaching to the border. The hind wings 

 are very elegantly marked; a whitish cream-coloured bar runs 

 across them, crossed and margined with blackish brown lines; 

 the base is reddish brown, but is very much mottled over 

 with a continuation of the whitish cream-colour; the bar is 

 succeeded by another narrow waved bar of fulvous crescents, 

 margined with black, and outside this is a darker cream-coloured 

 scolloped bar, tinged with yellowish, and edged round each 

 division with blackish brown, which lines run through to the 

 edge, which is also cream yellow, divided from the last-named 

 bar by two lines, one straight and the other crescented. 



The caterpillar is spined, and black, with two white dotted 

 lines on each segment, and white tubercles on the sides. 



One variety of this insect, described by several authors as 

 a distinct species, under the name of Melitoea Pyronia, a 

 specimen having been taken by Mr. Howard, at Peckham, in 

 Surrey, in June, 1803, is described by Mr. Westwood as rather 

 more than ai inch and a hnlf in expanse, with the fore wings 

 above deep fulvous; the veins, blots in the middle, a waved 

 streak, and tl » marginal bar, black; the hind wings above, 

 black, ^vUh a waved bar of six fulvous spots beyond the 

 middle ; beneath, the fore wings are fulvous, but paler at the 

 tips, with two black spots at the base, and a broad black bar 



