QUEEN OF SPAIN FRITILLARY. 153 



Although abundant in all the middle and southern 

 countries of. Europe, this butterfly is among the rarest 

 inhabiting' Britain. It is sometimes not seen for 

 many successive seasons, while iii others specimens 

 have been procured in several places. This was the 

 case particularly in 1818, a year which appears to 

 have been especially favourable to the increase of 

 many species, which in ordinary seasons are seldom 

 to be met with. The following localities may be 

 mentioned : — Gamlingay and Wisheach, Cambridge- 

 shire; Castle-meadow, Dover ; Halvergate, Norfolk; 

 Stoke near Nayland, Suffolk ; Birchwood, Kent. 



HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY. 



Argynnis Adippe. 



PLATE XVI. Fig. I. 



Pap. Adippe, Linn — Lewin, pi. 10 — Donovan, xiii. pi. 448. 

 — High Brown Fritillary, Harris. 



The wings generally expand about two inches 

 and a half, and are of a bright yellow, inclining to 

 brown on the upper surface, with transverse undu- 

 lating streaks, and round spots of black, together 

 with a series of black crescents near the outer mar- 

 gin, which is itself black. On the under side, the 

 primary wings are of a lighter hue, without the black 

 external border, and having a few silvery spots near 



