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brown near the margin of the wing- covers, and in the 

 depression of the back are large glittering, golden basal 

 spots to the points there, and the tips of the other 

 abdominal points have a similar golden lustre. (W. 

 B. ; E.M.M. XIV, 252.) 



Argynnis Adippe. 

 Plate X, fig. 2. 



On the 29th of June, 1867, 1 received a larva, which 

 I had no doubt was referable to this species, from the 

 Rev. E. Hallett Todd; he had found it a day or two 

 previously on Viola canina. 



I figured it a second time on the 7th of July, when 

 it had a little increased in size and its colouring was a 

 trifle darker. But at last this larva showed symptoms 

 of disease, some part of its interior protruding a little 

 from the anal flap, and on the 11th of July it died, to 

 my great mortification and regret. 



It had just attained the length of an inch and a half. 

 (W. B., Note-Book II, 127.) 



On the 20th of August, 1877, the Rev. J. Hellins, 

 who was then at Chagford, Devon, sent me a female 

 Argynnis Adippe alive. She was placed on a potted 

 plant of Viola canina, protected by a glass cylinder, 

 and by the 25th had laid about twenty-five eggs on the 

 plant, chiefly on the underside of the leaves and on the 

 stems, twenty-three eggs on the lower tin hoop of the 

 cylinder, including two on the glass, and six eggs on 

 the earth under the plant. 



On the 25th I received eight eggs laid by another 

 $ Adippe ; these had already changed colour. On the 

 same day I received as many as seventy-eight eggs of 

 Adippe from Mr. W. H. Ballett Fletcher, of Lynd- 

 hurst ; these had been laid on green leno, he having 

 imprisoned three ? Adippe in a cage lined with that 

 material during his absence in the Forest for a day. 



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