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ANARTA HELIACA. THE SMALL YELLOW UNDERWING MOTH. 



Plate XXXIII. fig. o. 



Synonyms. Noctua Heliaca, Wien. Verz. Huhner. 



Anarta Heliaca, Ochsenheimer, Stephens. 



Noctua Arbuti, Fabricius. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. x. pi. 343. fig. 3. 



Noctua Fasciola, Esper. 



Upper Side. The antennae are like hairs. The body and superior wings are of a fine deep 

 brown colour, having some dark clouds. The inferior wings are black, having a large spot of 

 yellow or gold colour in the middle of each, of the size of half the wing. It is described at (p). 

 They may be taken about the end of May, flying among long grass, by hedge sides. 



Expansion of the wings three-quarters of an inch. 



ARGYNNIS PAPHIA. THE SILVER-WASHED FRITILLARY BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XXXIV. fig. k—n. 



Synonyms. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Paphia. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 785. Lewin's Papil. pi. 9. 

 Bonov. Brit. Ins, 7. pi. 247. $ . Haworth. 

 Argynnis Paphia, Ochsenheimer, Leach, Stephens, Curtis. Duncan Brit. Butt. pi. 14. f. 1. 

 The Great Fritillary Butterfly, Wilkes* Brit. Moths fy Butt. pi. 110. 



Upper Side. The head, thorax, and abdomen are of a greenish brown. The wings are 

 dentated, and of a yellow brown orange colour, spotted all over with round spots of black. The 

 wings near the body are greenish. The under side of the superior wings are of a dark buff 

 colour, spotted, as on the upper side. The inferior wings greenish or pale olive, having a number 

 of waved lines, which appear like silver. The female is seen flying at (in). The male is deeper 

 in colour ; and the first, second, and third fan tendons are black, and very thick with hair. 

 See the figure at («). They fly the beginning of June. 



The caterpillar is seen at (h), and the chrysalis at (Z), as copied from Roesel. 



Expansion of the wings 2§ — 3 inches. 



This is the largest species of British Fritillaries. It occurs plentifully in the 

 south of England, and also, but more rarely, in Scotland. The caterpillar is light 

 brown, yellowish on the back, with two dark lines along the sides, the spines on 

 the body are long and bristly, and two on the segment behind the head are greatly 



elongated. 



M. Wesmael has described and figured a singular Gynandromorphus individual 

 of this species, in which the right side has the characters of the ordinary male, 

 except that the outer edge has a row of spots as in the female. The fore wing on 

 the left-hand exhibits " un melange de la coloration du male et de celle de la variete 

 femelle, le valaisien," and the hind left wing is exactly coloured as in the female 

 of that' variety. (Bull de H Acad, de Bruxelles, torn, iv.) Ochsenheimer has also 

 described a nearly similar individual of the same species. 



Mr. Conway states, that he generally finds this insect resting on the blossoms 



