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England to this day), are obviously a maie and female philoxemts; 

 but the writer bas evidently no knowledge of the living insect. 



" This is a local species; it is very abundant in some marshy 

 parts of Lancashire; but we hâve not learnt that it has been taken 

 in any other part of the kingdom. Many of the curious in London 

 are particularly indebted to Mr. Phillips of Manchester for 

 enriching their cabinets with Papilio Hero; for though it is a 

 plain Insect, it is esteemed for its rarity, few entomologists having 

 travelled into that part of the country to collect insects. " 



In 1803, however, the indefatigable Haworth had collected and 

 described the three species, which we know now to be three forms 

 of the same insect, as (i) the Small Ringlet (2) the Marsh Ringlet 

 and (3) the Scarce Heath. His No. i, which he calls davus, is 

 again our pMloxemis -. " Habitat in comitatu Lancastriense prope 

 Manchester uliginosis. Imago mense Julio. Ex Museo D. Jones "; 

 — his No. 2, which he calls polydama is tiphon and we hear of it 

 for the first time in Yorkshire. " Habitat rarissime comitatu 

 Eboracense. Semel capta et ad me missa amicissimo meo P. W. 

 Watson. Imago mense Julio. Paludosis "; and his No. 3 from 

 the same collector is probably a chance pale laïdion-X^ç. form... 

 " bis capta in comitatu Eboracense... mense Julio paludosis, cum 

 précédente. " 



Thirty years later John Curtis {British Entomology, I-XVI, 

 1 825-1 840), accepting Haworth's triple differentiation of the 

 species still speaks of No. i as appearing in June and July at 

 Trafford and White Moss near Manchester. But in the meantime 

 Haworth's No. 2, besides in its Yorkshire haunts, is now located 

 between Bala and Festiniog in North Wales, and in Cumberland; 

 while his No. 3, to which Curtis apparently alludes as said to hâve 

 been taken at Beverley and near Cottingham Yorkshire, he himself 

 with Mr. Dale reports in the middle of July in Scotland " about 

 rushy and swampy places near Schechallion, Killin, and in the 

 Isle of Arran, and my friend Mr. C. Lyell has met with it near 

 Kinnordy... " 



