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VENUS FRITILLARY. 



PLATE LII. 



Argynnis Aphrodite, Beee. Westwood. 



Papilio Aphrodite, Fabkicius. 



This is an American species, but it is unquestionable that 

 a specimen was taken in an undoubted wild state in Upton 

 Wood, a few miles from Leamington, Warwickshire, by James 

 Walhouse, Esq., of that place. How it came from the "Far 

 West" is now an undiscoverable mystery. This grand capture 

 occurred in the summer of 1833. 



The expanse of the wings is nearly three inches and a quarter. 

 The fore wings are of a rich fulvous colour, spotted and 

 chequered over with black. The hind wings are of the same 

 general ground colour, with very similar markings. 



Underneath, the ground colour is buff, tinged with pink, the 

 tips greenish, the dark marks shewing through. The hind wings 

 are bronze green, but dark at their base, and lighter towards 

 the outside; a row of semicircular silver spots follows the mar- 

 gin, and there are numerous other silver spots. 



The engraving is from the figure in Mr. Westwood and 

 Mr. Humphreys' work. 



