weaver's fritillary. 115 



brown colour, much marked all over witli black marks, several 

 near the centre, the base blackish brown, and a row near the 

 outside edge, followed by a line, which is again succeeded by 

 another line, through both of which a series of oblong marks 

 cross to the margin, which is yellowish white. The hinder 

 wings are also reddish brown, the base being nearly black, and 

 the marks disposed much in the same way as on the fore 

 wings, except that the inner line is waved from each cross 

 mark to the other. 



Underneath, the fore wings shew the central dark marks 

 through, and a few of the others; the upper corner and part 

 of the outer edge is paler than the rest. The hind wings 

 are of a brownish purple colour, relieved with darker markings 

 of the same; there are six or seven small silvery spots, inter- 

 mingled with minute yellowish dots, at the base, a broad 

 irregular band of the same nearly across the wings, then a 

 purple white streak, in which is a series of circular spots, 

 indistinctly eyed, and the margins also silver in indentations. 



The caterpillar is described as being black, with the spines 

 white and reddish, the back greyish, with a line along it. 



The plate is taken from Mr. A\\'stwood's figui'es. 



