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spotted with twenty-one silver spots. Female, particularly- 

 above, rather darker, otherwise like the male insect. 



Caterpillar. Blackish, >vith a yellow dorsal .stripe, and 

 tile-coloured lateral spots. Spines are black. 



Chrysalis. Of a dark reddish brown. 



ARGYNNIS CAROLETTA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND 

 FRITILLARY. 



Butterfly. Very like A. Aglaia, but more beautiful, and it 

 differs in the primary wings, having on both sides four black 

 costal bars instead of live. And in the secondaiy, having 

 beneath, nineteen silver spots instead of twenty-one, of 

 which the three anterior ones are three times larger than in 

 that species. Rare. 



CaterpiUar. 



Chrysalis. 



ARGYNNIS ADIPPE, HIGH-BROWN FRITILLARY. 

 Lctvi»,pl. 10. Donovan, v. 13, p. 448. Duncan, pi. 10, Jig. 1. 



Butterfly. Similar to A. Aglaia, especially in the upper 

 side of the wings. Primary wings, underneath, with six or 

 seven different .shaped silver scattered spots near the base, 

 then as it were a band of seven square silver .spots, the foiu-th 

 like a dot, then a streak as it were of six or seven ferruginous 

 red round spots, of which the third, fourth, and fifth for a 

 pupil have a silver dot, lastly a marginal band of seven 

 silver .spots, anteriorly edged with ferruginous. Female 

 above, deeper coloured. 



Caterpillar. Brownish, with ferruginous hairs, with a 

 whitish interrupted dorsal stripe, and black oblique streaks. 



