LEPIDOPTERA 01' THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. l6l 



from Wotton-under-edge by Mr. Perkins, has 

 also been taken on Durdham Down, late in the 

 autumn. It may be a third brood. 

 Lyc^na Adonis. AV. V. Glos. Clifton, Durdham, and 

 Coombe Downs, and Henbury. a.e.h. Staple- 

 ton. G.H. Wotton-u -e. v.r.p. Local, but 

 sometimes common. 



Somerset. Not recorded from this county, 

 though it probably occurs on the downs south 

 of the Avon. 

 ,, Corydox. F. Glos. This species seems to be found 

 throughout the county on limestone hills and 

 downs, though it has of late nearly disappeared 

 from some of its old localities. Stapleton, 

 Durdham and Coombe Downs, Bristol, Wotton- 

 under-Kdge, Dursley, Rodborough, &c, 

 Somerset. Leigh Down, scarce, Brean 

 Down and Weston-super-Mare, a.e.h. g.r.c. 

 ,, Acis. W.V. Glos. ''Two specimens, taken at 



Stinchcombe and Break-Heart Hill, near 

 "Wotton-under-Edge, are in Mr. Cooper's collec- 

 tion." — V.R.P. Mr. Perkins tells me this 

 scarce species " used to occur, not unfrequently, 

 near Wotton-under-Edge, but the last captures 

 heard of were in 18/) 8. I searched for it in all 

 its old haunts last season, but without success." 

 In. int., March, 1878. 



A single specimen was taken near Dursley, by 

 Mr. Evan John, in June 1865, which is now 

 in Mr. Harding's cabinet. [The Rev. Jos. 

 Greene took two specimens on the Cotswolds, 

 N. of my district, in 1849]. 

 Somerset. "■ I took two or three flying in a 

 pasture field at the bottom of the hill, near Bath ; 



