[36 BltlTISII BUTTERFLITS, 



history of this butterfly iu all its stages has been 

 sketched from the life by the Eev. J. F. Dawson (who 

 has made an intimate acquaintance with a colony of the 

 insect at Sandown, Isle of Wight), and will be found in 

 the Zoologist, p. 1271. 



The butterfly lirst appears about the first or second 

 week in May, and thence continues till about the middle 

 of June, seldom enduring till July. It is to be looked 

 for in rough, broken ground, such as the Isle of Wight 

 landslips, where plenty of the narrow-leaved plantain 

 grows. 



Other localities for the Glanville Fritillary are, Folke- 

 stone below West-vCliff (abundant); round Dover; 

 Birchwood ; Dartford, Kent ; Stapleford, near Cam- 

 bridge ; Yorkshire ; Lincolnshire ; Wiltshire ; Peterboro', 

 Stowmarket; and in Scotland, at Falkland in Fifeshire. 



THE PEARL-BORDERED LIKENESS 

 FRITILLARY. (Melitaea Athalia.) 



(Plate XL fig. 3.) 



Tins is another very local butterfly, though rather more 

 widely and generally distributed than the last, which, 

 as before stated, it greatly resembles in appearance, 

 especially on the upper side. 



