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acquaintance with it, however ; due possibly to my being seldom 

 able to collect hereabouts at the normal time of appearance. 

 Mr. L. E. Dunster, therefore, has been kind enough to com- 

 municate to me his experiences of the Brown Hairstreak in the 

 West Wycombe district, and I cannot do better than quote them. 

 " My locality," he says, " is the only locality I know of in 

 Bucks. My first record is September lltb, 1910, when I took a 

 female about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, flying low over some 

 stunted sloe bushes. I thought she was seeking a suitable place 

 for depositing ova, and made a good search without success. I 

 took another female on September 3rd, 1911. ... On September 

 8th, 1912, I was collecting in this locality with a friend, and we 

 saw several Z. hetula. They were flying high over the tops of 

 the sloe bushes, and we were not successful in taking any. I 

 visited the locality again at the latter end of May, 1913, hoping 

 to get the larvae, but was not able to find any ; neither did I see 

 the perfect insect in August and September. . . . Last year 

 (1914), though I spent many days there, ... I did not see 

 anything of this species." Mr. Peachell reported it from the 

 neigh Dourbood of High Wycombe in 1900. 



16. Thecla w-alinim, Knoch. Reported {in litt.) by Mr. 

 Peachell from the High Wycombe district ; but I have no precise 

 information of locahty or time of appearance. Seems to be 

 seasonally common in the southern part of the county. There 

 is also a somewhat vague record in Newman's ' British Butter- 

 flies ' : "In gardens (William Walker)." 



Lemoniid^. 



17. Hamearis lucina, L. This is another butterfly which, for 

 many years apparently, I overlooked in this part of the Chilterns. 

 I came across it quite unexpectedly last year at the edge of a 

 beech wood, where there was also plenty of cowslip growing in 

 the near neighbourhood, and as there are many localities where 

 the food-plant grows all along the hills, I daresay it will prove 

 to be not uncommon. Judging from a number of pupae sent me 

 eleven and twelve years ago by Mr. Goodson, of Tring (Herts), it 

 is plentiful in that district. It is recorded also from Drayton- 

 Beauchamp and Aston Clinton (Harpur Crewe) ; and from 

 Halton by Mr. N. C. Eothschild. Mr. Peachell (1900) says that 

 he had never taken it in the High Wycombe district, and Mr. 

 Spilier that he can claim but a single example for the Bucks, 

 hills. On the other hand, the late Mr. G. C. Barrett (Victoria 

 County History List) describes it as " plentiful near High 

 Wycombe." 



Earliest seen. May 22ud, 1914, when the males were already 

 wasted ; but a week later they were quite fresh in a wood on the 

 borders of Northamptonshire. 



