110 Beautiful Butterflies. 



PEARL-BORDERED FRITILLARY. 



PLATE VI. — FIG. III. 



\APILIO, or Melitcea Euphrosyne. This is a 

 very beautiful little fly, although it has not 

 much variety of colour : its markings are very 

 regular, or what we should call symmetrical, that is, 

 having a certain accordance or agreement with each 

 other; veins, and spots, and crescents, and dashes of 

 black, upon a deep orange ground, all as regular and 

 even as though they had been traced out by means of 

 rule and compass, and then carefully filled in by a very 

 steady and practised hand, and all round the outer 

 edge runs what seems to be a silken string of tiny 

 pearls. It is indeed an exceedingly pretty fly, with its 

 under wings like embroidered satin of yellow and pale 

 brown, with the faintest flush of red, all so curiously 

 marked, and veined, and mottled. You may see it 

 flitting about towards the end of May, and again quite 

 late in the autumn, when it appears that a second 

 brood issues from their prisons, the shape and colour of 

 which have not been exactly ascertained, to sport awhile 

 in the sunshine, spreading their wings to the extent of 



