no DABE-GBEEN FBITILLABY. 



silver dots near the corner, and one very obscure one inside them. The 

 hind wings dull green over all their inner and larger portion, excepting 

 towards the upper part of the outer side, where the dull fulvous, which 

 succeeds the green in a white band, runs into it. The border is pale 

 greenish yellow; inside this is a row of seven angular-shaped spots, 

 edged on their inner side, crescent-wise, with dull green. These are 

 followed by an irregular row of seven silver spots on the outside edge 

 of the green colour of different sizes and shapes, the centre one very 

 small, and these by about seven other spots and dots of silver, also of 

 different sizes and shapes, over the base of the green. 



The female expands to the width of two inches and three quarters, 

 or a little over; the ground-colour is more dull; the base much more 

 extensively and more deeply darker coloured; the dark billets are larger, 

 and those that are open in the male are filled up with black. The 

 hind wings are also much darker at the base. 



Underneath, most of the marks are larger than in the male. 



The caterpillar is of a blackish colour, with a whitish line down 

 the back, and another on the side, over which is a row of eight small 

 spots. 



One variety of this insect has been described as a distinct species, 

 under the name of 'Papilio Charlotta,' (Haworth,) and 'Argynnis 

 Caroletta,' (Miss Jermyn.) It has "the two costal spots on both sides 

 of the fore wings united, and only nineteen instead of twenty-one 

 silvery spots on the under side of the hind wings, several of the ordinary 

 spots at the base being confluent." Dr. Abbot took three specimens 

 of this variety, nearly all alike, near Bedford; and Mr. Dale has 

 another, taken near Peterborough, which on the under side represents 

 on one wing the character of ' Caroletta,' and on the other that of 

 'Aglaia,' thereby proving it to be, "sans doute," a variety only. 



Another splendid variety, of which specimens have been taken near 

 Ipswich and Birmingham, has "the upper surface of the fore wings 

 almost entirely of a dark brownish black, except a bright linear fulvous 

 mark, and beyond it a much smaller mark of the same colour, with a 

 row of faint tawny spots running parallel with the hinder margin. 

 The hinder wings have the markings considerably more distinct. 

 Beneath, the ground-colour of the fore wings is dark ferruginous, and 

 that of the hind wings pea-green, with twenty-one silvery spots." 



My friend, .John Curtis, Esq., records a variety intermediate between 

 this and the preceding one. Also in the " Magazine of Natural 

 History," No. 26, a pale buff-coloured variety is mentioned with the 

 spots and markings verv faint. 



The engraving is from specimens in my own collection. 



