DARK GREEN FRITILLARY. 121 



fore wings almost cntirch^ of a dark brownish black, except 

 a bright linear fulvous mark, and beyond it a much smaller 

 mark of the same colour, Avith a row of faint tawny spots 

 running parallel Avith the hinder margin. The hinder wings 

 have the markings considerably more distinct. Beneath, the 

 ground colour of the fore wings is dark ferruginous, and that 

 of the hind wings pea-green, with twenty-one silvery spots." 



My friend, John Curtis, Esq., records a variety intermediate 

 between this and the preceding one. Also in the "Magazine 

 of Natural History," No. 2G, a pale buff-coloured variety is 

 mentioned with the spots and markings very fliint. 



The engraving is from specimens in my own collection. 



