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DARK GREEN FRITILLARY. 



PLATE L. 



Argi/nnis agJaia, Ochsenheijiee. Stephens. Jekmyn". 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio acflaia, Lewin. Donovan. Wilkes. Hakris. 



Acidalia aglaia, Hubnee. 



The Dark Green Fritillary frequents heaths, woods, meadows, 

 and downs. 



Broadway, near Osberton, Nottinghamshire; Sywell Wood, 

 near Northampton, Barnwell, and Ashton AVold, and the 

 neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; the Downs 

 near Arundel, various parts of Suffolk; Hainault Forest, and 

 other places in Essex; near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wilt- 

 shire; the woods on the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire, 

 are localities for this handsome insect, but it occurs not uncom- 

 monly in a great many other counties throughout England, 

 from Hampshire to Scotland, and even in the Isle of Arrau, 

 "both inclusive." 



The perfect insect appears in July, and continues till August. 



The caterpillar feeds on the dog violet, f Viola canina.J 



This species expands like the last to the width of from two 

 inches and a quarter to a little over. The ground colour is 

 of a rather pale but fine fulvous, marked over with numerous 

 black billets, a row of round spots, another of crescents, 

 followed by the margin, two narrow lines running through a 

 row of black spots, both intersected diagonally by the black 

 Veins of the wings; the base is dusky — the outside edge 

 nearly straight; the hinder wings are marked in a very similar 

 manner, the whole of the base dusky. 



Underneath, the fore wings are marked as above, but the 



