218 (March, 



On the 2 1st June, 18G6, I caught eight specimens of this species on 

 the open heath lying between Park Grounds enclosure and Park Hill 

 enclosure, in the New Porest ; and, on the following day, having ex- 

 plored the then, to me, unknown Forest some three miles to the 

 west of this place, near Boldrewood, I suddenly came upon a colony 

 or metropolis of this species, and in the course of two or three hours 

 secured several dozen specimens. In June and July, 1868, the 

 species was still more plentiful in the New Forest, especially between 

 Boldrewood and Burley, about Puck Pits, Holm Hill enclosure, Vinney 

 Eidge, Ebinefield Old enclosure, and in Warickslade — a long open 

 space, full of old thorns and sloe-bushes, and well known as a locality 

 for OJadiolus illyricus, — lying between the enclosure last named, and 

 the Great Huntley Woods, and extending nearly as far east as Queen's 

 Mead. By midsummer, 1870, the species had increased and multiplied 

 in these localities to such an extent as to render the discovery of the 

 pupae on sloe-bushes, and the capture of five or six dozen imagos in 

 the course of a few hours a matter of ease. Besides this, the distri- 

 bution of the species had extended from Vinney Eidge and Warick- 

 slade to Alum Green and Butt's Lawn on the north, and as far east, 

 and south-east as Denny Wood and Wood Fidley. 



After the wet summer of 1871, Aporia cratcegi gradually became 

 scarcer in the New Forest. In 1872, it Avas again chiefly restricted to 

 its head-quarters in the neighbourhood of Burley, Boldrewood, and 

 Yinney Eidge, and its numbers were apparently reduced from hundreds 

 to a few dozens. By 1875, the species had become still rarer ; and in 

 1878 I caught my last specimen in the New Forest. Since that year 

 I have never seen it in the district, nor have I heard of the capture 

 by any of the local collectors of a single specimen since 1880. 



HuNTiNGDONSHiEE. — When staying with my father at Oundle, 

 Northamptonshire, in June, 1865, for the purpose of collecting in 

 Barnwell Wold, we visited Gidding Magna, and other places in the 

 neighbourhood where the Eev. W. Bree used formerly to collect the 

 species ; but we never succeeded in finding it in this county. 



NoKTHAMPTONSHiEE. — In Staiutou's" Manual," Petcrboro' is given 

 as a locality for this species ; but I have never found it in this neigh- 

 bourhood, nor at Oundle, Barnwell, or any other part of the county 

 with which I am acquainted ; nor have my correspondents, in this and 

 adjoining counties, reported its capture for many years past. 



Hekefokdshire. — The late Edward Newman has recorded A. 



