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SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY. 



PLATE LIII. 



Argynnis Paphia, Fabeicius. Ochsenheimer. Stephens, 



" " Westwood. Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Papliia, ' Linnaeus. Lewin. Donovan. 



" " Wilkes. Haebis. 



Argyronome Paphia, HuBNEE. 



This is a plentiful species in woods, in the south of England 

 especially, but it extends northwards also to Scotland. A few 

 of its localities are the "Dukeries," near Osberton, Nottingham- 

 shire; Hainault Forest, Essex; Barnwell and Ashton Wold, 

 and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; in 

 Langham "Woods, near Stoke Nay land, Suffolk, very abundantly; 

 also, rather uncommonly, near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, 

 Wiltshire, as J. W. Lukis, Esq. tells me; and in the woods on 

 the banks of the River Dart, in Devonshire, as James Dalton, 

 Esq., of Worcester College, Oxford, has written me word. 



The perfect insect appears the beginning of July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the violet, nettle, and raspberry. 



This Fritillary expands in the width of its wings from about 

 two inches and three-quarters to nearly three inches. The 

 fore wings are rich fulvous, with numerous blackish spots and 

 bars, the latter horizontal, and of the former there are three 

 rows, following the outside edge of the wing, the inner row 

 the largest sized, and the outer one on the edge, Avith a dark 

 line running through them. The hind wings are of the like 

 ground colour, with also three rows of larger spots, the inner 

 rounded, the next bell-shaped, and within the three two waved 

 blackish lines, meeting together near the lower part of the 

 inner one. 



Underneath, the fore wings are paler in colour, the outer 

 corner dashed with metallic green; of the dark marks, some 



