Very Rare Euphydryas aurinia aberration

[nomad]

A very rare, Marsh Fritillary-Euphydryas aurinia aberration.  Not one I have seen before but I have searched high and low for this. In 1893 Basingstoke was a village, now its a city size town, all full of new estates that have gobbled up the surrounding countryside, so do not except to see this Frit there now. I wonder has anybody seen anything like it. Mr A.E. Holdaway certainly had a Red Letter Day when he caught this.  Today aurinia is a protected U.K. species so photographs only if you find one.  OUNHM Colls.

[nomad]

Of course Mr A.E. Holdaway caught a perfectly good example of Euphydryas aurinia and I except this specimen was descaled later to show the wing veneration , so a valuable object especially for teaching purposes in its own right. I should imagine to achieve this would be a very tricky and time consuming procedure. 

[xavm (Xavier)]

Agreed with nomad, unfortunately, no chance to see what was the aberration, if any... this is "only" a descaled specimen, although venation are important to know.