86 IHK l.KPIDOl'TKRA OF ESSEX. 



Not common, Ijut probal:)ly generally distriljuted in our larger 

 woods. Apparently rarer now than formerly. 



Hartley and Hamlet's Wood and Bromley Thickets (y^'rw 17/ ; 

 V.M. 67). (ireat Bromley {£. Alston; E. W.I. ii. 143, 151). Col- 

 chester, St. Osyth, has been more scarce during the last two or three 

 years than formerly {^Harwood ; B.B. 32). Still common in Col- 

 chester district {Hanvood). Rare, Epping {E. Doubkday ; E?it. 

 Mag. iii. 285). Used to occur in quantity, Hainhault Forest (Eng/is/i; 

 Proc. E.F.C. iv. xxxiii.) Common, Epping, in 1844, "but I have 

 not seen one now for many years " {Etig/ish ; E.N. i. 1 10). Epping 

 {S.M. \. 42). Near " Waice Arms," Epping Forest {A. J. Rose ; Ent. 

 xvi. 151). Not uncommon, Brentwood {Ray nor). Felstead {Rep. 

 F.S.N. H.S. ii. 44). Eastwood, not common. " I have often seen 

 A. adippe in the cottage gardens near the wood at Hadleigh " 

 {Vaughan ; E.N. iii. 126). Sparingly in Parson's Wood, near 

 Woodham Mortimer Church (Raynor, T. E.F.C. iii. 37). Hazeleigh 

 Hall Wood, in August, on thistles, not common {Fitch). Not com- 

 mon, \\\\.\\?Lm {E. H. Burjiell, M.N.H{2). i. 601). Sudbury ( TF. 

 D. King ; B.B. 2,Z)- Abundant in large wood, Essex, and one var., 

 cleodoxa {Button; Ent. v. 221). "Essex" {Stephens). 



Argynnis paphia, L. Silver-washed Fritillary. 



Geographical Distribution — Europe, Asia, except extreme north. Throughout 

 Britain. 



Larva — Blackish-brown, broad yellow streak on back, bordered with black 

 spots ; spines longf, reddish-ochreous, with black tips. Food — Violet, wild rasp- 

 berry. Imago — July and August ; hibernates as larva. 



Formerly abundant in most of our larger woods, now rare and 

 local. 



" Whether seen on the wing and shooting through a gleam of 

 sunshine in the recesses of a wood, or settled upon a lofty purple- 

 headed thistle [or bramble spray], and alternately erecting and ex- 

 ])anding its silvered wings, this is certainly one of our finest and 

 most attractive butterflies" (//'. D. Kingl ; F.S.J., Dec, 1838). 

 Eexden and Stour Woods, Bromley Thickets, Hamlets "W^ood, Hut- 

 ton's Grove, Beaumont (/fz-wj'/i ; V.M. 67). Great Bromley {Al- 

 ston; E. W.I. ii. 143). Formerly common in Highwoods, Colchester, 

 now very scarce; still common at Donyland and St. 0?,yih{Harwood). 

 " Usually one of our commonest species " (/f. Doubleday ; Ent. i. 

 374). 1-arva; first met with in 1838 (//. Doubleday, in litt.). Epping 



