l62 LEPIDOPTERA OF THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 



they were much wasted in colour, and appeared 

 to have been long on the wing." — Lewin, 

 quoted in Newman's "Butterflies,"^ ]). 133. 

 Near Bath. gr.c. Mr. Grigg has a male 

 specimen said to have been taken on Leigh 

 Down, about ten years ago, by a Bristol 

 collector. 

 Lyc^na Alsus. F. Glos. JDurdham Down, scarce, a.e.h. 

 Worcombe Fir plantation, common, but local. 

 j.A.H. Wotton-under-Edge. v.r.p. Rod- 

 borough Common, m.g.m. 

 Somerset. Clevedon, Portishead, Brockley, 

 Wookey, Wells, Weston-super-Mare, &c. Very 

 local, but generally common where it occurs. 

 „ Argiolus. L. Common amongst holly and ivy through- 

 out the district. '' It seems not so generally 

 known as it should be, that the spring brood 

 feeds up in the autumn, and passes the winter 

 in pupa." — F. D. Wheeler : in. litt. 

 ,, Arion. L. Glos. ^^ Near Wotton-under-Edge j it has 

 not turned up in the parish, but within a very 

 short distance." v.r.p. Rodborough Common 

 and other localities near Stroud. m.g.m. 

 Stinchcombe Hill, near Dursley, 

 Somerset. '' Hills near Bath.'' — Lewin, 

 quoted in Newman's '' Butterflies,"^ p. 140. 

 The late Mr. Queckett of Langport, used to 

 take this species in considerable numbers, " in 

 a field abounding with long grass and brambles, 

 near Langport," havmg captured upwards of 

 sixty specimens on two days, (June ijth, 1833, 

 and June ijth^ 1834). The late Mr. Dale also 

 took this species in the same locality. See 

 *' Entomological Magadne, " Vol. II., and 

 Newman's ''Butterflies,'' p. 140. 



