102 PEABL-BOBBEBED LIKENESS FBITILLABY. 



blackish brown at the base, and waved all over with blackish brown 

 lines, intersected by others running through to the border, which is 

 blackish brown, edged with yellowish white, and indented by the 

 blackish colour. The hind wings are very similar to the fore ones in 

 their markings in all respects. 



Underneath, the fore wings are paler fulvous, with a few slight 

 blackish brown marks, indicating the situation of some of the principal 

 markings on the upper side; the tip is straw-colour, which runs some 

 way along the margin, crescented on the inside and across by black 

 lines, crossed by a waved longitudinal line following the edge, and 

 intersected by others running into it, and reaching to the border. The 

 hind wings are very elegantly marked; a whitish cream-coloured bar 

 runs across them, crossed and margined with blackish brown lines; the 

 base is reddish brown, but is very much mottled over with a continuation 

 of the whitish cream-colour ; the bar is succeeded by another narrow 

 waved bar of fulvous crescents, margined with black, and outside this 

 is a darker cream-coloured scolloped bar, tinged with yellowish, and 

 edged round each division with blackish brown, the lines running 

 through to the edge, which is also cream yellow, divided from the 

 last-named bar by two lines, one straight and the other crescented. 



The caterpillar is spined, and black, with two white dotted lines on 

 each segment, and white tubercles on the sides. 



One variety of this insect, described by several authors as a distinct 

 species, under the name of Melitoea Pyronia, a specimen having been 

 taken by ]\Ir. Howard, at Peckham, in Surrey, in June, 1803, is 

 described by Mr. Westwood as rather more than an inch and a half in 

 expanse, with the fore wings above deep fulvous; the veins, blots in the 

 middle, a waved streak, and the marginal bar, black; the hind wings 

 above, black, with a waved bar of six fulvous spots beyond the middle ; 

 beneath, the fore wings are fulvous, but paler at the tips, with two 

 black spots at the base, and a broad black bar in the middle, divided 

 by fulvous veins, and with a row of black lunules near the margin ; 

 the hind wings fulvous at the base, with about eight confluent black 

 patches; the middle of the wing occupied by a brown whitish band, 

 intersected by blackish veins, followed by a row of fulvous lunules, 

 with black edgings; the outer margin straw-coloured, with a row of 

 ochraceous lunules in the middle. 



Another variety also described as a distinct species, under the name 

 of Papilio tesselata, is mentioned as being paler than the ordinary 

 colour, and the fore wings more fulvous beneath; the hind wings, 

 underneath, entirely straw-coloured, with black veins; at the base three 

 large yellow spots, edged with black; a broad curved band of straw- 



