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or two in excellent condition. A few Polyounnatus icanis, not in good 

 condition, and a single Coenuni/mjilia jianijihilKs complete the Cornish 

 bag, since Pieiis rapae and P. napi were too worn to be worth taking. 



On Saturday the 10th we left for Lyndhurst where we arrived in 

 the late afternoon, our quarters at the "Crown " affording a grateful 

 contrast to the roughness and rats of our late abode. A tramp through 

 an open bit of the Forest on the following afternoon showed that, 

 despite total absence of sun, it was possible to kick up a few fresh 

 specimens of typical P. anjiis [ae(ion), and a sufficient number were 

 obtained on the following daj', which was hot, though there was but 

 little sun till the late afternoon. Butterflies were however very 

 scarce, with the exception of E. jiirtina. A very few Jhi/as paphia 

 (no var. raleaina) and still fewer Ari^i/Jinis adippe put in an appearance, 

 Liinenitis slbi/lla was also very little in evidence, and such as were to 

 be seen flew high until between 4 and 5.30 p.m., when the sun was 

 several times out for as much as ten minutes at a time, when they 

 came down as usual and sat on the moist wood-roads in some 

 numbers, but were difficult to see and not in first-class condition when 

 taken. 



As I had to be in London for the Tuesday and Wednesday nights 

 we returned home the following day, and on the Wednesday I made 

 an expedition to Cuxton in search of /'. ariius {oef/on) var. oetaeia, 

 but alas! the sun went in just after I arrived at the station and the 

 rest of the day was given up to cold wind and occasional rain, and I 

 returned home without a single specimen of any sort. 



On Thursday, July 15th, we started for Witherslack about 1 o'clock, 

 arriving at Grange-over- Sands in the early evenmg, and finding a 

 very comfortable " taxi " at the station which (juicklj' took us to the 

 " Derby Arms," where we remained very comfortably for the next 

 eight days. Our hostess w^as most kind and attentive, and during 

 part of the time we had the further advantage of the company of 

 Messrs. Mansbridge, Johnson and Crabtree, to all of whom this 

 locality is so well-known, and by whom, especially Mr. Johnson, 

 who stayed longer than the others, I was introduced to the special 

 haunts of various species, whether flying at the time or not. But the 

 weather ! Kain and wind were the order of the day, with scarcely 

 ever a gleam of sun ; still, I managed by hours of tramping the 

 •mosses to obtain a tine series of P. aiynn (aei/oii) var. iiiassei/i, not 

 however more than I could easily have got in an hour of hot 

 sunshine. They were however well worth the trouble and exertion 

 and nothing to compare with them is to be found out of England, or 

 in England except in the northern " mosses." The ? s are all much 

 suffused with blue, the hindwings often to the border, and the amount 

 of orange on the upperside varies as much as in other forms of the 

 species ; the dark part of the wings is nearly always black, not brown, 

 as in Agriadea tlietis ab. urania. I was fortunate enough also to 

 obtain three aberrations among the 3 s ; one with leaden-coloured 

 hindwings on the upperside, very fresh and perfect, one with some 

 coalescent spots on the underside hindwings (ab. casta- juncta), and one 

 with most of the spots of the underside hindwings elongated, this 

 specimen however having unfortunately lost a piece out of one of the 

 hindwings. The S" s are not at all violet-blue on the upperside, but 

 rather of the blue of Glauvopfniche ojUanis, with a very narrow black 



