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PEARL-EOEDERED FRITILLARY. 



PI,ATE XLV, 



Melitaa Euphnsyne, Leach. Stephens. Curtis. 



" " Duncan. Westwood. 



Papilio Euphrosyne, Linn^us. Lewin. Donovan. 



Argynnis Euphrosyne, Ochsenheimer. Hubner. Boisduval. 



To see this pretty insect gaily flitting about in the open places in 

 woods in| the new summer time, when every trace of winter has at last 

 disappeared, is almost euough to make one wish to be, as well as to 

 sing " I'd be a butterfly," so happy and joyous does it seem. 



It is very plentiful in many places; among others, at Buttercrambe 

 Moor, near Stamford-Bridge, Stockton, Sutton-on-Derwent, and Laug- 

 with, Yorkshire; near Great Bcdwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire; and in 

 great abundance in all the woods near Shelly, Stoke-by-Nayland, 

 SuS'olk; Hainault Forest, in Essex; Brighton, Sussex; Birch Wood, 

 in Kent; Bisterne, in Hampshire; and Barren Wood, near Carlisle. 

 It is also abundant in various parts of Scotland; also in Wales, as 

 near Llandudno. 



It is found in woods. 



There are two broods of this butterfly, the first appearing the end 

 of May and beginning of June, and the second in August and 

 September. 



The caterpillar feeds on the wild violet, f Viola canina,) and other 

 species of that genus. 



In this insect, which measures from one inch and three quarters to 

 nearly two inches across, the upper side is fulvous, mottled over with 

 several large black billets on the centre of the wings, placed in a zigzag 

 manner, the inner series running across the wing in a connected manner, 

 followed by two other sets, which only extend half-way across from 

 the front edge; the base of the wings is blackish brown, much more 

 extensive and distinct in some individuals than in others. Next the 

 outside series is a row of round dots, succeeded by a row of small 

 crescents, and these by a row of round dots intersected by a line and 







