ff6 • SMALL TOBTOISE-SHELL. 



dark buff, followed immediately by a black indented stripe, in which 

 are a series of small dark blue crescents. 



The hind wings are also rich orange red, but all the base is dark 

 coloured, and they are bordered with dark buff, followed by an 

 indented black band, in which is a row of dark blue crescents of 

 larger size than those in the fore wings, leaving the orange as a bar 

 across. Underneath, the markings are the same, but the orange is 

 changed to stone-colour; the margins are the same, but darker, and 

 separated from the rest by an indented line of metallic blackish green. 



The lower wings have the bar replaced by a darker stone-colour; 

 the margins separated by a row of crescent-shaped dark blackish green 

 spots. 



The caterpillar is of a dull colour — a mi.xture of green and brown, 

 with paler lines down the back and sides, and beset with black spines: 

 the head is black. 



The chrysalis is brownish, with golden spots on the fore part, and 

 sometimes nearly entirely golden. 



In varieties of this species the black spots have been more or less 

 enlarged or diminished, so as in some cases to be confluent, and in 

 others obsolete. In one figured by the Rev. W. T. Brec, of Allesley, 

 in the " Magazine of Natural History," the second and third black 

 bars on the front edge are united, and the two round spots on the 

 same wings are absent, the hind wings being uniformly obscure. 



A very singular 'Lusus naturae,' preserved in the cabinet of Mr. 

 Stephens, has occurred in the Small Tortoise-shell, Mr. Doublcday 

 having taken one near Epping, with five wings, the fifth, of small size, 

 being affixed to one of the hinder ones, whose markings it repeated. 



(A hymenopterous insect with seven legs, four on one side and three 

 on the other, and still preserved in the cabinet of J. C. Dale, Esq., 

 . was captured several years ago by my brother, Frederick Philipse 

 Morris, Esq., in a wood near Axminster, Devonshire.) 



The engravings are from specimens in my own collection. 



