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one of the group of butterflies known to English Entomo¬ 
logists by the name of FritillavieS. It is thus described by . 
Mr Stewart in his Elements of Natural History. 
“ Papilio Dia. Wings tawny, with black spots } the 
posterior wings purplish below, with yellow and silvery 
spots at the base, and a silvery obsolete fascia in the mid¬ 
dle. 
“ Inhabits Europe. B. Esp. I. Tab. 16. f. 4. 
“ Larger than the Lucina, but less than the Cuixia, 
which it resembles in the upper surface of the wings. The 
caterpillar feeds on the Ivola; it is grey, with alternate 
rows of white and ferruginous spines ; the pupa yellowish, 
variegated with black.” 
Latrei lie’s description is much the same : “ Ailes faUVes, 
tres tachetdes de noir; les inferieures d’un pourpre fonce 
en dessous, avec des taches argentees et de tachcs jaunes ; 
une bande plus claire et un ligne d’yeux argentes; un se- 
rie de petites taches argentees au bord posterieur. En 
Mai et en Adut, sur la violette.” 
The special habitat given by Linnieus is Austria. I 
may add, that the chief variation observable between Cap¬ 
tain Scoresby’s specimen, and others with which I have 
compared it, is in the figure of the silvery spots on the un¬ 
der surface of the inferior wings. In the Greenland speci¬ 
mens, the larger spot is bifurcated at either end, in the 
Continental it is irregularly oval, or egg-shaped. 
I conclude these memoranda by observing, that it had 
been previously shewn by the Fauna Grivnlandlca of 
Otho Fabricius, that the entomology of Greenland, so far 
as it was known, bore a close resemblance to that of Den¬ 
mark, Sweden, and more especially Swedish Lapland; and 
the observations of Captain Scoresby forms a link which 
