THE PEARL-BORDERED LIKENESS FRITILLARY. 99 



has made an intimate acquaintance with a colony of the 

 insect at Sandown, Isle of Wight), and will he found in 

 the Zoologist, p. 1271. 



The butterfly first appears ahout the first or second 

 week in May, and thence continues till ahout the middle 

 of June, seldom enduring till July. It is to he looked 

 for in rough, "broken ground, such as the Isle of Wight 

 landslips, where plenty of the narrow-leaved plantain 

 grows. 



Other localities for the Glanville Fritillary are, Folke- 

 stone helow West -Cliff (abundant); round Dover; 

 Birchwood ; Dartford, Kent ; Stapleford, near Cam- 

 bridge; Yorkshire; Lincolnshire; Wiltshire; Peterboro', 

 Stowmarket; and in Scotland, at Falkland in Fifeshire. 



THE PEAEL-BOEDEEED LIKENESS 

 FEITILLAEY. (Melitcea Athalia.) 



(Plate XI. fig. 3.) 



THIS is another very local butterfly, though rather more 

 widely and generally distributed than the last, which, 

 as before stated, it greatly resembles in appearance, 

 especially on the upper side. 



It may be characterised negatively as not having the 

 rows of black spots found on both surfaces of Cinxia, 

 though its colouring is very similar fulvous (or orange- 

 brown) and black above ; straw-coloured, fulvous, and 

 black beneath. 



The caterpillar is black, with rust-coloured spines ; 

 and feeds on various species of plantain. 



The butterfly is out from May to July, and is met 

 with (if at all) on heaths, clearings in woods, &c. 

 Localities, in some of which it is very plentiful, are, 

 Caen Wood ; Coombe Wood ; Epping ; Halton, Bucks ; 

 Bedford ; Aspley Wood, Beds ; Plymouth, Teignmouth, 

 Stowmarket, Dartmoor, Devonshire ; Oxford ; Wilt- 

 shire; Colchester; St. Osyth ; Tenterden; Faversham : 

 Deal; Canterbury. Yery rare in north of England. 



