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DARK-GREEN EJHTILLARY. 



PLATE I,. 



Argynms Aglaia, Ochsenheimer. Stephens. Jermyn. 



Duncan. Wiisrvvooo. 

 Papilio Aglaia, Lewin. Donovan. Wilkes. Harris. 



An'dti/ia Aglaia, Hubner. 



The Dark Green Fritillary fretiuciits heaths, woods, meadows, and 

 downs. 



Broadway, near Osberton, Nottinghamshire; Buttercrambe Moor, near 

 Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire; near Carlisle, in Cumberland; Sywell 

 Wood, near Northampton, Barnwell, and Ashton Wold, and the neigh- 

 bourhood of Polebrook, Northamptonshire; Ambleside, in Westmoreland; 

 Crab Wood, near Winchester, Hampshire; the Downs near Arundel, 

 and Brighton, in Sussex; various parts of Suffolk; Hainault Forest, 

 and other places in Essex; near Axminster, Devonshire; and Great 

 Bedwyn and Sarum, Wiltshire. The woods on tlie banks of the River 

 Dart, in Devonshire, are also localities for this handsome insect, but it 

 occurs not uncommonly in a great many other counties throughout 

 England, from Hampshire to Scotland, in Rosshire, even on the highest 

 hills, near Glen Sheel, and in the Isle of Arran, "both inclusive." 

 In Wales, near Llandudno. 



The perfect insect appears in June and July, and continues till 

 August. 



The caterpillar feeds on the dog A'iolet, (Viola canina.J 



This species expands like the last to the width of from two inches 

 and a quarter to a little over. The ground-colour is of a rather pale 

 but fine fulvous, marked over with numerous black billets, a row of 

 round spots, another of crescents, followed by the margin, two narrow 

 lines running through a row of black spots, both intersected diagonally 

 by the black veins of the wings; the base is dusky, the outside edge 

 nearly straight; the hinder wings are marked in a very similar manner, 

 the whole of the base dusky. 



Underneath, the fore wings are marked as above, but the dark marks 

 near the outside edge are much paler; the tips of the wings are paler 

 than the rest, as are the front edges, and there are a few minute faint 



