11& Beautiful Butterflies. 



WEAVER'S FRITILLARY. 



PLATE VI. FIG. IV. 



APILIO, or Melitcea dea. This it will be 

 seen is a smaller fly than the species last 

 described ; it is also much rarer, only a few 

 specimens having been taken in this country : the first 

 of these to which the attention of scientific entomolo- 

 gists was called, was captured in Sutton Park, near 

 Tamworth, in Staffordshire, by a Mr. Weaver, by 

 whose name the insect was called. It is a remarkably 

 elegant little fly, resembling closely in its tints and 

 markings Miss Euphrosyne, to whom we have just 

 dedicated a line or two. 



The Caterpillar, which is dark-coloured and hairy, 

 feeds upon the leaves of the sweet violet ; the chrysalis 

 has not been described, probably because not found by 

 a British Naturalist. There are said to be two broods 

 in the year. 



The specific name seems to come from the Latin di 

 or disy meaning something which differs from another, 

 as this fly does, although but slightly, from the better 

 known preceding species. 



