

DESCKIPTTVE NOTICES OF CONSPICUOUS SPECIES 109 



August is well advanced, indeed wasted stragglers may 

 be met with in September ; it is fond of settling on 

 bramble blossoms. 



FAMILY II. NYMPHALID.E. Subfamily Argynnidi. 



ARGYNNIS AGLAIA. THE DAKK GKEEN 

 FBITILLABY. 



Not so plentiful as the preceding, but occurring pretty 

 generally throughout the country, and extending its 

 range into Scotland, where I have often met with it in 

 the glens of Argyleshire. 



The expansion of the wings is from 2J to 2J inches. 

 All the wings are fulvous, spotted with black. On the 

 underside of the fore-wings are some marginal spots 

 towards the tip (which are wanting in the closely allied 

 High Brown Fritillary, A.Aidppe)-, the underside of the 

 hind-wings is greenish, with about twenty distinct 

 silvery spots. 



The spiny larva is black, with two pale yellow dorsal 

 lines, and with reddish lateral spots on the fifth to 

 twelfth segments ; the projecting spines at the head are 

 shorter than in the larva of A. Paphia ; it feeds in May 

 and June on the dog-violet. 



The perfect insect makes its appearance in July, fre- 

 quenting woods and heaths, many a sylvan glade being 

 then the resort of this beautiful insect. 



The High Brown Fritillary (Argynnis Adippe) is so 

 closely allied to the Dark Green Fritillary, that we only 

 distinguish them by the markings on the underside; in A . 

 A.dippe the silver on the marginal spots of the hind-wings 

 is less distinct, and between the marginal spots and the 

 central row of silver spots there is a row of small dull 



