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SILVER-WASHED EEITILLARY. 



PLATE LIII. 



Argynnis Paphia, Fabricius. Ochsenheimer. Stephens. 



" " Westwood. Curtis. Duncan. 



Papilio Paphia, Linnaeus. Lewin. Donovan. 



" " Wilkes. Harris. 



Argyronome Paphia, Hubner. 



This is a plentiful species in woods, in the south of England especially, 

 but it extends northwards also to Scotland. A few of its localities are 

 the "Dukeries," near Osberton, Nottinghamshire; Hainault Forest, 

 Essex; Barnwell and Ashton Wold, and the neighbourhood of Polebrook, 

 Northamptonshire; Looe, in Cornwall; near Falmouth it is rare; in 

 Langham Woods, near Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, very abundantly; also, 

 rather uncommonly, near Great Bedwyn and Sarum, AViltshire, as J. 

 W. Lukis, Esq. tells me; Brighton, in Sussex; the Isle of Wight, 

 Bisterne, and Lyndhurst, in Hampshire; and Lyme Ivegis, Dorsetshire, 

 where I have also taken it. It is abundant in the woods of Essex, 

 and at Broadway and near Milstead, Kent. It occurs likewise in 

 Sywell Wood, near Northampton, as the Rev. D. T. Knight has in- 

 formed me, and in various other localities throughout the kingdom, 

 extending in its range even into Scotland. In Yorkshire, at Sutton- 

 on-Derwcnt, Buttercrambe Moor, Allerthorpe, Stockton, Sand Hutton, 

 etc. In Westmoreland, at Ambleside; and in the woods on the banks 

 of the Eiver Dart, in Devonshire, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester 

 College, Oxford, has written me word. 



The perfect insect appears the beginning of July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the violet, ( l^iola canina,) nettle, and 

 raspberry . 



This Fritillary expands in the width of its wings from about two 

 inches and three quarters to nearly three inches. The fore wings are 

 rich fulvous, with numerous blackish spots and bars, the latter horizontal, 

 and of the former there are three rows, following the outside edge of 



