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PLATE CCCII. 



PAPILIO AGLAJA. 



Silver Spot Frittilary Butterfly. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



A ntennx clubbed at the ends. Wings erect when at reft. Fly 

 by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



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ST NO NT MS. 



Wings dentated, fulvous, with black fpots. Twenty filver fpots 

 on the under fide of the pofterior wings. 



Papilio Aglaja: alis dentatis fulvis nigro maculatis : fubtus 

 21. rnaculis argenteis. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 785. 

 211. — Fn. Sv. 1064.— Fab. Ent, Syji. T. 3. p. 1. 

 p. 144. #.442. 

 IVilh Pap. tab. 2. a. 12. 

 Efp. Pap. I. tab. 17. 'fig. 3. 

 Sckaff. Icon. tab. 7. fig. I, 2. 



A very beautiful and not uncommon Britifli fpecies ; the Larva 

 feeds on the Violet, &c. ; it is of a dirty black colour, fpotted with 

 brown, and armed with long fpines, as in P. Antiopa. This Larva 

 is found in May, changes to the pupa Hate the latter end of the fame 

 month, and appears twenty-one days after a winged i.nfecT:, 



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