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GLANVILLE FRITILLARY. 



This buttcrflv is a very local one, so that its capture must always 

 be regarded as a "great fact" in the experience of by far the greater 

 number ot entomologists. 



J. W. Lukis, Esq. informs me that this extremely interesting insect 

 is taken, though very rarely, in the neighbourhood of Great Bedwyn 

 and Sarum, Wiltshire. It seems to be most plentiful near Ryde and 

 other places in the Isle of Wight, on the grassy sides of the little 

 glens which run down to the sea-shore, and on the edges of the cliffs, 

 where I have seen it in goodly numbers myself. One was captured 

 by Mr. Walhouse near Leamington, in Warwickshire; Dover, Dartford, 

 and Birch Wood, in Kent, are likewise given as localities for it; it is 

 said also to have occurred in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. 



The Glanville Fritillary appears the end of May, and in June and 

 July. 



"The caterpillars are found," says Mr. Westwood, "in the autumn, 

 living in societies under a kind of tent formed by drawing together 

 the tips of the leaves on which they feed, and covering them with a 

 web." 



This butterfly varies in the expanse of its wings from a little under 

 to a little over one inch and three quarters. The fore wings are of 

 a rich fulvous ground-colour, elegantly tesselated all over the outside 

 half with black brown markings, arranged for the most part in waved 



