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QUEEN OF SPAIN FRITILLARY. 
Argynnis Lathonia. 
PLATE XVI. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Lathonia, Linn. — Lewin, pi. 12 Donovan, iii. 
pi. 73 — Queen of Spain Fritillary, Harris. 
The surface is yelloivisli-brown, with numerous 
insulated black spots, most of them of a rounded 
form. Beneath, the ground colour of the primary 
wings is paler than above, but they are marked with 
black in a similar manner, and have a few silvery 
spots towards the tip. The under side of the se- 
condary wings is ornamented with upwards of 
twenty silvery spots, very unequal in size, seven of 
them of a semicircular shape, forming a row near 
the hinder margin, before which there is a transverse 
series of ocellated spots of a brownish colour with a 
silver pupil. The fringe is pale yellow, interrupted 
with black. The caterpillar, according to Godart’s 
account, is greyish-brown, spinose, with a white line 
along the back. It is solitary, and feeds on the 
Heart’s ease ( Viola tricolor), a kind of Saintfoin 
( Hedysarum onobrychis), and Anchusa officinalis. 
