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QUEEN OP SPAIN FRITILLAEr 



Argynnis Lathonia, 



PLATE XVI. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Lathonia, Linn. — Lewin, pi. 12 — Donovan^ iii, 

 pi. 73. — Queen of Spain Fritillary, Harris. 



The surface is yellowish-brown, with numerous 

 insulated black spots, most of them of a rounded 

 form. Beneath, the ground colour of the primary 

 wings is paler than above, but they are marked with 

 black in a similar manner, and have a few silvery 

 spots towards the tip. The under side of the se- 

 condary wings is ornamented with upwards of 

 twenty silvery spots, very unequal in size, seven of 

 them of a semicircular shape, forming a row near 

 the hinder margin, before which there is a transverse 

 series of ocellated spots of a brownish colour with a 

 silver pupil. The fringe is pale yellow, interrupted 

 with black. Tlie caterpillar, according to Godart's 

 account, is greyibh-brown, spinose, with a white line 

 along the back. It is solitary, and feeds on the 

 Heart's ease {Viola tricolor), a kind of Saintfoin 

 {Iledijsarum onobri/chis), and Anchusa officinalis. 



