NYMPHAI.ID.'E. — LIMr.NfTIS. .",1 



metropolis within these few years. About ten years aj^ol saw it in 

 plenty at Coombe-wood, in July, and a number of specimens were 

 then taken ; since that period I have not seen the insect at lar(;e 

 near London ; it has, however, been taken occasionally at Darcnlh- 

 wood. It was formerly not uncommon in Epping-forest, though it 

 is evidently very local. I am informed by Mr. Dale that it occurs 

 in Clapham-park-wood, Beds., Brinsop-copse, Ilerefords., Enborne- 

 copse, Berks, near Warminster, Wilts, and Christchurch, Hants: 

 — it is also found in several parts of Essex and Suffolk. An in- 

 teresting notice of the habits is given in Lejjidoptera Briraiinica, 

 to which I must refer the reader on account of its length. 



Genus XIV.— Limenitis, Fahrkms. 



Palpi longer than the head, not coni;i;:uous, parallel, clothed with scales, and 

 slightly hairy, three-jointed, basal joint small, oval, second long, cylindric, 

 slightly bentj terminal longer than ti;e basal, elongvate, ovate : antenna; long, 

 with a gradually produced slender, elongated, obconic club : wing)i somewhat 

 triangular, the posterior slightly scolloped, with the hasal arcolet open be- 

 hind: eyes pubescent: anterior legs short in both sexes, slender, with a 

 minute claw; posterior long, furnished with claws and unguiform appen- 

 dages. Caterpillar elongate, with obtuse spines on the back, and bundles of 

 hair on the sides. Chrysalis subangular, gibbous beneath, head-case beaked. 



Limenitis somewhat resembles Apatura in appearance, but may 

 be discriminated by the rotundity of the hinder margin of the 

 anterior wings and pubescence of the eyes and palpi, the latter 

 being distant without approximating points; the club of the antennje 

 is more slender than in Apatura, ai;d not arcuate and sub-com- 

 pressed, as in Hipparchia. 



J Sp. 1. Populi. Alis fuscis alho fncia'is 7nuciilatis<jue; sul)fi'ts biteis alLo 



Jasciatis, maculis ca;rvlescentibus. — Linne. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. 10 lin.) 

 Pa. Populi. Linne. — Stewart, ii. 12j. Li. Populi. Step/t. Catal. 



Wings nearly concolorous, above dusky, beneath testaceous : the anterior with 

 a few scattered white spots on both surfaces; the posterior above with an 

 obscure interrupted white band composed of spots, behind which is a series of 

 red lunules, bordered externally with black ; beneath with a marginal row 

 of black lunules in a bluish border, and a central interruiUod bluish-white 

 band. Caterpillar spiny, head and tail orange-coloured : feeds on the aspen. 

 Chrysahs yellowish, with black spots. 



I am at a loss to account for the introduction of this fine species into our 

 Fauna, unless it originated from the false reference to Hay by Linmrus, in 



