66 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



This Butterfly is generally distributed throughout England, 

 and is often very common in open spaces in or near woods in 

 May, flitting from flower to flower, and is very easily cap- 

 tured. On the Continent it is double-brooded, but the autumn 

 brood is rarely seen in England. 



It measures about an inch and three-quarters across the 

 wings, which are fulvous, with the base more or less broadly, 

 and the hind-margins narrowly, black. Within the borders 

 are two rows of black spots on all the wings, and there are 

 several black spots and short transverse lines in the cell and 

 elsewhere, towards the base. The outer marginal row of black 

 spots is sometimes united into a festooned line, enclosing 

 fulvous spots. The under surface of the fore-wings is marked 

 as above, but is yellowish towards the margins, and the hind- 

 wings are varied with red, with a marginal row of silvery spots, 

 a silvery spot at the base, and a pale yellow central band, 

 with one large silvery spot in the middle. There is also a con- 

 spicuous black spot in a yellow ring in the cell of the hind- 

 wings. 



The larva is black and spiny, with white lines, and reddish 

 pro-legs. It feeds on different species of violet in June and 

 September. 



SMALL PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY. BRENTHIS SELENE. 

 (Plate XV., Figs. I, 2.) 



Papilio selene, Denis and Schiff., Syst. Verz. Schmett. Wien, p. 

 321, no. n (1776); Hiibn., Eur. Schmett, i., figs. 26, 27, 



73 2 , 733, 783 (1803, &c.). 

 Papilio euphrosyne, var. Esper, Schmett, i. (i), p, 325, pi. 30, 



fig. i (i777). 

 Melitcza setene, Steph., 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, i., p. 34 (1827); 



Curtis, Brit. Ent., ix., pi. 386 (1832). 



