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Essex.— In Young England for 1860 is a notice that one had been taken in 

 Epping Forest, but of tliis capture Mr. lluckett states that he lias very grave 

 doubts (Zoologist, vol. xxi, p. 8601). 



Kent. — Cuxton, twenty-live years ago (1871), Tutt (Brit. Butterflies, p. 166). 



Sussex. — Lewes, II. T. Stainton (Ent. Trans., 1858—61, vol. v, p. 231). 



Surrey.— Windlesham Heath, Rev. Dr. Abbott, on July 16th, 1878. 



Suffolk. — Foxhall Heath, one specimen, on June 24th, 1861. G-. Garrett 

 (Bloomfield's Lepidoptera of Suffolk). 



HAMPSHIBE. — Brockenhurst, Mr. G. Samouelle. Near Ringwood, T. Vine, in 

 1830. 



Dorsetshire.— Parley Copse, T. Vine, on May 28tb, 1833. Hazlebury Bryan 

 Lodcr. Powerstock, J. C. Dale, on June 27th, 1816. It was. common at Glan- 

 villes Wootton in 1808, onco recorded in 1811, one in 1812, common in 1813, 

 1814, 1815 (one being taken as late as August 1st), and 1816, scarce in 1817 and 

 1818, common in 1819, 1820, and 1821, scarce in 1822 and 1823, common in 1825 

 (twenty specimens on June 13th), scarce in 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831, common in 

 1834 and 1835, one only seen in 1836, a few in 1837, none recorded in 1S38, scarce 

 in 1839 and 1840, in 1841 a pair on Juno 19th, which were the last ever seen in 

 Dorsetshire. I found them both on clialky places or on one hill called Dungeon, 

 and also amongst long grass in meadows, especially in a field called Millett's 

 Long Ground (J. 0. Dale's Ent. Journal). 



Somersetshire. — Lewin, in his Insects of Great Britain, states, " that in the 

 last week of August, 1793, he took two or three flying in a pasture field at the 

 bottom of a hill near Bath, that they were much wasted, and appeared to have been 

 long on the wing. 



Wiltshire. — Amesbury, Mr. Edwards, prior to 1840. 



Warwickshire. — The Rev. W. T. Brec writes, in Loudon's Magazine, vol. vi, 

 p. 191 : " On June 28th, 1804, I took a single female in an open plantation by the 

 side of Coleshill Park. I have an example also of the same sex captured by a 

 village shoemaker in another part of Warwickshire, I believe in the vicinity of 

 Birmingham, and a collector at Coventry lias several which he took some years ago 

 in the neighbourhood of that city." 



Leicestershire. — One near Hinckley, on July 15th, 1812, Rev. W. T. Bree 

 (Loudon's Magazine, vol. vi, p. 191). 



Worcestershire. — One by a friend near Dudley, in 1802 (Loudon's Mag., vol. 

 vi, p. 191). 



Gloucestershire. — Two at Lower Guiting, on the Cotswolds, by the Rev. J. 

 Greene, in the beginning of July, 1849 (Zoologist, vol. x, p. 3494) ; has been met 

 with at Stinchcombe and on the Breakheart Hills near Woofton-under-Edge, V. R. 

 Perkins (Newman's Butterflies, 1871). 



Herefordshire.— " I took five specimens in one of my father's meadows, 

 called the ' Horse Leasow,' at Olden Barn, four miles from Leominster, on June 

 20th 1832 ; four of them were females, and only one a male. I have repeatedly 

 seen it since, and my nephew has taken two specimens, but many years ago " (E. 

 Newman, in his British Butterflies, 1871). In the preface to the Zoologist for 1862 



