SMALL PEAHL-BORDERED FRITILLARY. 



APRII, FRITILLARY. 



PLATE XI, VI. 



Melitma Selene, Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



" " Westwood. 



Papilio Selene, Fabrtcius. 



" Silene, Haworth. 



" Euphrasia. Lewin. 



" Euphrosyne, (var:) Esper. Harris. 



This is another of those insects which do not make their appearance 

 until the cold weather has fully passed away, and there is no longer 

 any danger, as is the case with other less fortunate species, of mistaking 

 some transient gleam of sunshine for the established serenity of the true 

 summer. 



It frequents woods, heaths, and waste grounds. I have taken it in 

 plenty in Edlinton Wood, near Doncaster, an excellent locality, and 

 one in which nightingales abound; also at Buttercrambe Moor, 

 Langwith, and Stockton. Other localities are Barnwell, and Ashton 

 Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, Noithamptonshire. It is 

 scarce near Falmouth. It occurs also near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, 

 Wiltshire; Raydon Wood and Laver Heath, near Colchester, Essex; 

 Dartmoor, in Devonshire; Lyndhurst, and Bisterne, in Hampshire; 

 Newcastle, in Northumberland; Ambleside, in Westmoreland; near 

 Carlisle, in Cumberland; Looe, in Cornwall; and Durham, "of that 

 ilk." Brighton, in Sussex; and Llandudno, in Wales. 



There are two broods in the year, the one appearing in May and 

 June, and the second in August and September. 



This insect measures in the expanse of its wings from a little under 

 to a very little over an inch and three quarters. The ground-colour 

 of the fore wings is fulvous, the base black, with a series of waved 

 lines of irregular black dots of different sizes and shapes, and outside 

 this, from one larger black spot near the tip, two rows of six dots, 



