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Argynnis selene was represented by a few females found 

 in the grassy places on the worked-out margins of some of 

 the peat-bogs. 



Vanessa urtic<z was rather scarce both as larva and 

 perfect insect ; probably the latter was just appearing at the 

 end of the month, while most of the larvae had pupated 

 before I began to look for them. V. atalanta was much 

 commoner, a good many worn examples being seen at the 

 beginning of the month, when larvae also abounded ; and the 

 fresh images were beginning to come out towards the end of 

 the month. To Satyrus semele should almost be ascribed the 

 first place for abundance, its only rival being Epinephile 

 janira. A $ of the latter, with the wings concolorous and 

 pale almost as in some females of the mountain form of 

 typlion, was a prize. E. hyperanthus was pointed out by 

 Mr. Gordon at Corsemalzie, the only place where I saw it. 

 Ccsnonympha typJion : I was unfortunately too late to get this 

 interesting insect in perfection. Some of the males approach 

 very closely indeed to Witherslack males on the upper side, 

 and the tone of the under side is not very dissimilar, but the 

 size of the eye-spots is not quite so large ; the females, on 

 the other hand, as far as I can judge, are smaller than in the 

 Witherslack insect. My material, however, is not so good 

 as I should like. C. pamphilus, common ; P. phltms, also 

 common. Lyccsna astmrchc, var. artaxerxes, occurred in 

 several localities on or near the coast, but in only one was I 

 able to procure a useful series, which shows the insect to be 

 more typical of the northern form than I expected, although 

 on the under side the comparatively blind spots found in most 

 of my Perthshire examples give place in the majority of the 

 Wigtownshire ones to fairly distinct eye-spots with rather 

 wide white rings. I regret being unable to make a com- 

 parison with examples from east and west of the northern 

 part of England. L. teams appeared to me to be much 

 bluer (less lilac) than usual ; it was frequent. Hesperia 

 sylvanus I was delighted to find rather commonly in grassy 

 places about the peat-bogs, and it also occurred on the coast. 

 Nowadays this species, as far as Scotland is concerned, seems 

 to be confined almost entirely to the Solway area. I was 

 disappointed in not getting one or two other butterflies. 



