HIGH-BROWN FRITILLARY QUEEN OP SPAIN. 131 



The caterpillar is thorny, greyish, with black spots 

 on the back, intersected by a white line. Feeds on the 

 violet. 



The chrysalis is reddish, spotted with silver. 



The butterfly appears in July, in many open places, in 

 woods, and on heaths, in various parts of England, but 

 most plentifully in the south. Like the last species, it 

 is an active and wary insect on the wing, and requires 

 considerable agility and dexterity for its capture. 



THE QUEEN OF SPAIN FKITILLARY. 

 (Argynnis Lathonia.) (Plate X. fig r 3.) 



THIS splendid little species is one of the prize-flies of 

 the collector that is, if the specimen be an undoubted 

 native ; for while a " Queen of Spain " taken within our 

 shores will command a considerable sum of money in 

 the market, another, precisely similar, but brought over 

 Prom the opposite French coast, may be bought for a very 

 few pence ; but the mode of carriage, you see, makes 

 all the difference, and the value of the insect depends 

 entirely upon whether its own wings or a steam-boat 

 have brought it over the Channel. So much for " the 

 fancy/' 



When figured side by side with the other Fritillaries, 

 this species looks distinct enough from any of them; 



