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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 

 SEC. I. SP. XII. SCALLOPPED WINGED FRITILLARY. 



PI. 12. 



Lathonia. Linnaus. 



Queen of Spain Fritillary. Harris. 



With the natural hiftory of this rare Englifh infect we are not in the leaft ac- 

 quainted ; and we have only two or three inftances of the butterfly's being 

 taken in this country. Mr. Honey, of the Borough, has a good fpecimen in his 

 extenfive collection of Englifh infects, taken by him in his garden in the month 

 of Auguft. The figure of the caterpillar, with the defcription, I have added 

 from the elegant and correct work of Sepp. " The eggs of this butterfly are 

 ribbed and oblong ; the broadefh end being faft glued to the plant on which it 

 is laid. The female lays them not in clutters, but feparate ; and it is remarkable, 

 that fhe lays only in the fun, ceafing whenever fhe is by any means fhaded. 

 From the eggs, which the butterfly began to lay on the ioth of June, the firfb 

 caterpillars appeared on the 18th. They were of a yellowifh gray colour, 

 with black heads ; and their bodies were covered with fine fhort hairs. On the 

 27th, they changed their fkins for the firft time, and then acquired fpines, befet 

 with long hairs : the colour of the caterpillar was now nearly black, with a light 

 ftripe on the back. On the 7th of July they changed their fkins a fécond time, 

 on the 15th a third time, and on the 24th or 25th the fourth and laft time. 

 The fpines, which after the firft change appeared with fine- and long hairs, ac- 

 quired fhort ftiff ones after the laft change. In a few days after the fourth 

 change, the caterpillars had attained their full growth: fee fig. 1. From thechry- 

 falis, fig. 2. in the courfe of a few days I obtained the butterfly, fig. 3. 



The difference between the two fexes in this butterfly is fcarcely diflinguifli- 

 able, except by the greater thicknefs of the body of the female." 



The under wing of this butterfly is beautifully marked with oblong filvery 

 fpots, fig. 4. 



