QUEEN OF SPAIN FRITILLARY. 
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Although abundant in all the middle and southern 
countries of Europe, this butterfly is among the rarest 
inhabiting Britain. It is sometimes not seen for 
many successive seasons, while in others specimens 
have been procured in several places. This was the 
case particularly in 1818, a year which appears to 
have been especially favourable to the increase of 
many species, which in ordinary seasons are seldom 
to be met with. The following localities may be 
mentioned : — Gamlingay and Wisbeach, Cambridge- 
shire; Castle-meadow, Dover ; Halvergate, Norfolk; 
Stoke near Nayland, Suffolk ; Birchwood, Kent. 
HIGH BROWN FRITILLARY. 
Argynnis Adippe. 
PLATE XVI. Fig. 1. 
Pap. Adippe, Linn — Lewin, pi. 10 Donovan, xiii. pi. 448. 
— High Brown Fritillary, Harris. 
The wings generally expand about two inches 
and a half, and are of a bright yellow, inclining to 
brown on the upper surface, with transverse undu- 
lating streaks, and round spots of black, together 
with a series of black crescents near the outer mar- 
gin, which is itself black. On the under side, the 
primary wings are of a lighter hue, without the black 
external border, and having a few silvery Bpots near 
