NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 197 



** gold'T/elloiv and brown Butterflu'' of Wallis, i. 354, wlio truly 

 observes, " It delights to rest on dry banks, stones, and rocks." 

 Mr. Selby informs me that it has of late years become much 

 less common about Twizell than formerly. 



8. HippARCHiA, Fah. 



1. H. Semele, Linn. 



Papilio Semele, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 772.-^Don. Brit. Ins. viii. 

 17, pZ. 260.— mh. Pap. 143, 144, 826, 827.— -Wood 

 Lid. Ent. t. 2, 38. Hipparchia Semele, Steph. Illust* 

 Haust. i, 56. — Staint. Man. i. 28. 

 Larva. Dup. Icon. \. pi. 28, f. 78. 

 Rocky places and gravelly banks, where it is to be met with 

 in some abundance in July and August. With us it is almost 

 confined to the Magnesian Limestone district — Marsden, Castle 

 Eden, old ballast hills, at Jarrow, wdiere it swarms, or, at least, 

 did so some years ago. " At the mouth of Castle Eden Dene, 

 and near Cassop." — Ornsh^'s Durham. " Sea coast near Bam- 

 burgh." — P. J. Selby, Esq., in Fauna of Twizell. Castle Eden 

 and Hartlepool. — W. Backhouse, Esq. 



Duponchel, in his Iconographie, i. 190, remarks respecting its 

 larva, " Ses moeurs sont les memes que celles de la chenille du 

 Satyre Circe, c'est-a-dire qu'elle ne se suspend pas pour se 

 chrysalider, mais qu'elle se pratique une petite cavite dans la 

 terre, o-i elle subit sa metamorphose, a I'instar des chenilles de 

 Noctuelles ; " a statement which my friend R. F. Logan, Esq., 

 of Duddingston, so well known for his patient investigation of 

 the metamorphoses of the Lepidoptera, informs me he has 

 verified. 



2. H. Janira, Linn. 



Papilio Janira, Linn. S. Hat. ii. 475. — Wood Ind. Ent. t. 2, 

 / 41. P. Jurtina, Linn. S. Nat. ii. 4:76,fwm. — Don. Brit. 

 Ins. ix. 69,;7Z. 320.— Hub. Pap. 161, 162, 593-500 Hip- 

 parchia Janira, Steph. Illust. Haust. i. 59. — Staint. Man. 

 i. 28. 



Larva. Huh. Gesch. Pap. I. Nj/mj^h. F. a. 2.^-Dup. Icon, 

 i.pl. 27, f. 76. 

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