118 HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY. 



black marks, many of wlilcli, especially a row, forming almost 

 a continuous waved streak a little within the margin, are more 

 or less of a crescent form. The extreme edge is pale fulvous, 

 and within this are two black lines intersecting a row of black 

 dots, both again intersected horizontally by the black veins of 

 the wings. The hind wings are marked very much in a similar 

 way: the outside edge is slightly concave. 



Underneath, the fore wings shew through most of the marks 

 from above, those however at and near the outside edge being 

 much fainter and more indistinct: the ground colour too is 

 rather paler. The black marks near the tips are faded into 

 rich brown, sometimes spotted with silver. The hind wings 

 are most beautifully variegated with buff, rich ferruginous, 

 and brown, the upper edge near the base being silver, 

 outside which are from five to seven large silver spots, these 

 again succeeded by an interrupted band of nine or ten still 

 larger ones of different sizes and shapes; these by a row of 

 small rusty red spots, some of which have their centres silver, 

 and these again by another row of seven triangular-shaped 

 silver spangles. 



The caterpillar, in one of its first stages, is red, which is 

 afterwards exchanged for olive green, with a white line along 

 the back, and white spots on the sides. 



The chrysalis is of a reddish colour, with silvery spots. The 

 insect remains in the chrysalis state about a fortnight. 



A curious variety of this insect is mentioned by Mr. A. D. 

 Michael, as having been taken near Cromer, Norfolk, in which 

 all the upper side of the fore wings was of a deep brown 

 colour without spots, but with a lighter margin, in which were 

 three or four darker lunules. Other varieties have occurred in 

 which the spots on the wings were more or less confluent. 



The plate is from specimens in my own collection. 



