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PEARL-BORDERED LIKENESS FRITILLARY. 



WHITE MAY FRITIM.ARV. IIKATH FRITILLARY. 

 PLATE XLVll. 



Melitcea Athalia, Ochsenheimer. Stephens. Duncan. 



Papilio Alhalia, Esper. 



" Dic/vmm, Lewin. Haworth. Jeriiyx. 



" Matimia, Fabriciu.s. Wilkes. Harris. 



Cinclidia Athalia, Hubner. 



The late Captain Blonier used to take this very interesting insect 

 plentifully in Devonshire; Ford Wood is one of the localities there for 

 it, and Dartmoor another; it is taken also in Cain Wood, Middlesex; 

 Bagley AVood, Berkshire, near Oxford; Apsley Wood, and near Bedford, 

 Bedfordshire; near Deal, Faversham, Canterbury, and at Combe Wood, 

 Kent. It occurs near Falmouth, in Cornwall, but rarely; W. P. Cocks, 

 Esq. has taken it there, likewise at Looc; also not very uncommonly 

 near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire, as J. W. Lukis, Esq. informs 

 me; and at Langham Lodge Wood plentifully, as too in Hartley Wood 

 and Maldon AYood, near St. Osyth, and in the High Woods, near 

 Colchester, Essex; it has also been taken at Peckham, Surrey, near 

 London. 1 have never j-et seen it on the wing, but live in hope of 

 being able to chronicle its capture on some "Red-letter day." 



It is "out" in the end of June and the beginning of July; the 

 end, and even the beginning of May, is also given as a date for it; 

 but I think it must be a mistake. It frequents woods, heaths, and 

 marshes. 



The caterpillar feeds on the broad-leaved plantain, (/-"A/y/Z/^j/o major,) 

 and the narrow-leaved plantain, {Phintiu/u Idnrcolata.) 



This species is a little over an inch and a half, and from that to 

 three quarters, in the expanse of its wings. The fore wings are fulvous, 



