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MELIT^A ARTEMIS. THE GREASY FRITILLARY BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. e—i. 



Synonyms. Papilio Artemis, Fabricius. Lewin Pap. pi. 15. Haworth Lep. Brit. pi. p. 36. 

 Melitese Artemis, Ochsenheimer, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Butt. pi. 13. fig. 2. 

 Papilio Maturna, Esper. Pap. 1. pi. 16. 

 The Small Fritillary Butterfly, P. Lucina, Wilkes, pi. 114. 



Upper Side. The head, thorax, and abdomen are dark brown. The superior and inferior 

 wings are of a brown orange colour, mottled with black and yellow. The inferior having a border 

 of yellow along the fan edges, composed of eight yellow spots. 



The under side of the superior wings is a faint appearance of the upper side ; and being bare 

 or almost naked of plumage, seems as if greasy. I have shewn the male at (i), the female at (g), 

 and the under side of the female at Qi). 



The caterpillars are seen in their last skin the latter end of April, when they appear as at 

 0) 0). The preparation which each makes for its preservation in the chrysalis state is greatly to be 

 admired : when ready for its change, its first business is to draw several pieces or blades of grass 

 across each other, toward the top : these it fastens together with its web; then beneath the centre, 

 where the blades of grass intersect each other, it hangs itself by the tail, and undergoes its change 

 as represented at (f), where an exact drawing of the chrysalis is seen : it is white, having a 

 number of black spots and marks ; the head and tip of the tail is yellow. The time for taking 

 the fly is the middle of May. 



Expansion of the wings 1 J to 1™ inch. 



This insect is more particularly found in the southern counties of England, 

 occurring but very rarely in the north. The caterpillars feed on the two common 

 species of plantain, and on the devil's-bit scabious, (Scabiosa succisa). Like those 

 of M. cinxia the caterpillars are produced in the autumn, and the young brood keeps 

 together under a web, in which it passes the winter. 



Two extraordinary varieties of this insect are figured by Mr. Dale in the 

 Magazine of Natural History, in one of which almost all the pale spots of the upper 

 side of the wings are obliterated. 



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ARGYNNIS ADIPPE. THE HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XXVIII. fig. a—d. 



Synonyms. Papilio (N. Ph.) Adippe, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 786. Lewin Papil. pi. 10. Donovan 

 Brit. Ins. vol. xiii. pi. 448. 

 Argynnis Adippe, Ochsenheimer, Leach, Stephens. Duncan Brit. Butt. pi. 16. fig. 1. 



Upper Side. The head, thorax, and abdomen are dark brown. The superior and inferior 

 wings are of a brown orange, spotted with black. All the fan edges are bordered with a black 

 double line, within which is a scolloped one, forming arches, like a bridge. 



The under side of the superior wings is similar to the upper, except the apex of the wing, 

 which is yellow. The inferior wings are yellow, spotted with twenty-four silver spots. 



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