BRITISH BUTTERFLIES. 



Under side of the Variety Cleodoxa, in the cabinet of Mr. Bond. 



circular markings, each surmounted by a red- 

 brown mark of very similar shape : the hind 

 margin is fulvous. 



Var. 1. A very rare variety is entirely 

 without the silver spots on the under side, 

 their space being occupied by fulvous spots 

 of similar size. It has received the name of 

 Argynnis Cleodoxa. 



LIFE HISTORY. The EGG is laid in August/ 

 on the dog violet ( Viola canina), and the young 

 CATERPILLAR emerges in about a fortnight and 

 feeds on the leaves : it ceases to eat early in 

 the autumn, and retires towards the roots of 

 the food-plant, or conceals itself under leaves, 

 remaining entirely out of sight until the 

 following spring, when it finishes its feed- 

 ing life and prepares to turn to a CHRYSALIS. 

 When full fed it is about an inch Pad a half 

 in length and stout in proportion ; Khe head 

 is smooth, and about the same "Vvidon as the 

 second segment ; the second segment has two 

 spines pointing forwards over the head and 

 slightly turned upwards at the tip; the third 

 segment has four spines , the fourth segment 

 also four, and the remaining segments, as far 

 at the eleventh, six each ; the eleventh has 

 four, and the twelfth four : all these spines are 

 covered with bristly hairs. The colour of the 

 head is almost black ; that of the body pale 

 brown tinged with flesh-colour, and having a 

 medio-dorsal white stripe extending from the 

 fifth to the eleventh segment, both inclusive : 

 this stripe passes through a series of nine 

 semicircular black marks, the convex margin 

 of which is directed backwards, and is nar- 

 rowly bordered with white; the spines are 



white at the base, and flesh-coloured at the 

 tip. Hiibners Figure. 



Obs. I have no knowledge of the cater- 

 pillar or chrysalis except from books. 



TIME OF APPEARANCE. The caterpillar 

 lives through the winter. The chrysalis is 

 found in June, and the butterfly in July. 



LOCALITIES. It seems to occur both in 

 woods and on uncultivated hill- sides, thus 

 combining the tastes of Paphia and Aglaia. 

 In England it is less frequently met with than 

 either. I have no report of its occurrence 

 either in Ireland or Scotland, but give below 

 some English localities. 



Buckinghamshire. Drayton - Beauchamp, 

 Aston-Clinton, and Birchland H. H. Crewe; 

 Halton Joseph Greene. 



Cumberland. A single specimen taken in 

 Newbiggin Wood, near Carlisle J. B. Hodg 

 kinson. 



Derbyshire. Breadsall, Dovedale, Matlock 

 Cromford H. H. Crewe. 



Devonshire. Near Newton Abbott * 

 Hellins ; Bickleigh Vale, Hobo rough Dowi 

 Shaugh, Morwell Rocks, Exeter, Torquay, 

 Bovey Tracey, Launceston Reading's Cata- 

 logue. 



Dorsetshire. Elsington Wood and Oaundle 

 Holt, but rare J. C. Dale. 



Essex. Hare at Epping E. Doubleday ; 

 Colchester, St. Osyth, has been more scarce 

 during the last two or three years than for- 

 merly W. H. Harwood. 



Glamorganshire. Scarce at Llantrissaut 

 titan John; it occurs in woods at Ynisygerwn 

 J. 2. D. Llewelyn. 



