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Pl. 73.
Marsh Fritillary.
1, 3, 5, 9, 10 male; 2, 4, 6, 7, 11 female.
1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 English; 8 Welsh; 3, 5, 10, 11 Irish.
The butterflies usually affect broken ground, rough fields, grassy slopes near woods, or even sunny banks on the edges of cornfields. Occasionally an odd specimen or two may be met with here and there, but as a rule they seem to keep pretty much together, so that when one comes upon a colony of these butterflies, the selection of a series on the spot is quite an easy matter, and can be effected without destroying a single specimen over and above the required number.
Abroad, this species is abundant in Central and Southern Europe, and its range extends to Northern Asia Minor and Armenia.