336 A Species of k^ cams (?) 



without the spots beneath, and the red marks on the margin of the posterior 

 wings, L.* 



Thymele malvse, grizzled skipper, L. T. Tage^, dingy skipper, L. 



Pamphila sylvanm, large skipper. P. comma, silver-spotted skipper. 

 P. llnea, small skipper. 



P. S. — Since the above list was prepared, I have been 

 favoured with an inspection of Miss Harvey's cabinet, who 

 resides at Upper Deal ; and observed therein the following 

 species, in addition to those already enumerated, viz. : — Me- 

 litae^« Selena, Dictynn«, and A'rtemis ; all of which, I was 

 informed, had been taken in the neighbourhood of Deal or 

 Canterbury. The same lady also showed me a fine specimen 

 of Colias Hyak, taken in June last, in a field of clover or 

 saintfoin, near Deal ; and likewise a specimen of Papilio Ma- 

 chaow, which she had reared from the caterpillar : the only 

 instance that had come to her knowledge of the insect occur- 

 ring in that vicinity. Vanessa Antiopa had been seen settling 

 on a wall in Admiral Harvey's garden, in the month of Au- 

 gust ; but my intelligent informer was unable to capture it. 

 A single specimen also of V. c. album had been observed in 

 the same situation last summer, which is considered a very 

 rare insect in that part of the country. W. T. B. 



Allesley Rectory, Nov. 10. 3 831 . 



Art. VIII. Some Account of a Species of Kfcarus (?) 'which infests 

 Butterflies, By the Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A. 



Sir, 

 Having, in the preceding article, given a list of Papilionidae 

 found near Dover ; as an appropriate sequel to that list, and 

 intimately connected with the subject of it, I now take occa- 

 sion to notice a small parasitical insect {Jig, 74., and magnified 

 Jig, 75.), which I suppose to belong to the genus ^'carus f : I 



sex vary considerably in size, and the females exceedingly so in colour; 

 some having the wings brown above, and others more or less of a fine 

 purplish blue. Of the latter sex, I observed some remarkably blue speci- 

 mens, in a perfectly fresh staie, in the Castle meadow, the last week in Sep- 

 tember. 



f Since writing the above, I have met with the following account, in 

 Professor Rennie's Insect Miscellanies (p. 27.), of what I have no doubt 

 is the same insect: — "A species," he says, "of this family (Ocarina,) 

 probably the red tick (Pediculus cocclneus Scopoli), or a mite (Leptus 

 Phalangii) described by De Geer, appears to be much more indiscriminate 

 [than the harvest bug, Leptus autumnalis,] in its tastes ; for, during the 

 summer of 1830, we found it at Havre de Grace, infesting insects of the 

 most different families. It particularly abounded on the marbled butterfly 



