GIIEAST OR HARSH fRITILLABY. 137 



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. Very rare in north of England. 



THE GREASY OR MARSH FRITILLARY. 

 (Melitea Artemif.) (Plate XL fig. 4.) 



THE black markings on the upper side of this but- 

 terfly closely approach those of the last two species, but 

 the interstices, instead of being filled up with a uniform 

 fulvous tint, as in those, are " coloured in " with several 

 di&tinct shades, some with pale tawny yellow, others with 

 deep cringe brotcn. This latter tint forms a band paralle 1 



