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P. atalanta. — Usually common in gardens in autumn, and I have 

 not unfrequently come across spring immigrants. 



V. io. — Formerly quite a scarce insect, but grown more common 

 of late years, broods of larvae being now not infrequent on nettle 

 patches by field path from Watlington to Pyrton. 



E. antiojM. — I had the luck to capture a specimen in perfect 

 condition on a post sugared for moths in my garden at Pyrton 

 Vicarage on August 19th, 1900. The specimen is now in the 

 University Museum at Oxford. There were, I think, about a dozen 

 recorded captures in England that year. 



E. polychloros. — A brood of larvae stripped the branch of a wych 

 elm overhanging my garden at the Vicarage some ten or twelve years 

 ago (I have not the exact date). I was unfortunately away from 

 home when they descended, but luckily found half a dozen of the 

 pupae on the wall of a neighbouring shed in the garden, which 

 produced fine specimens. Since then I have on several occasions at 

 rare intervals seen isolated specimens on the wing about the hills. 



A. urticcB. — Common everywhere. 



P. c-alhum. — September 23rd, 1897, a solitary individual visited 

 the Vicarage garden. Unfortunately it departed while 1 was fetching 

 my net, but not before I had inspected it at close quarters, sunning 

 itself on a flower. I could not be mistaken in my identification, as I 

 am quite familiar with the insect, which is common about my boy- 

 hood's home in Worcestershire. The wild hop grows in the hedges 

 hereabouts. 



D. paphia. — Common in favourable seasons, but not every year, 

 in a gully. This gully, the gently sloping sides of which are clothed 

 with oak scrub, flanked at the top by beech wood, is the most prolific 

 ground in the neighbourhood both for insects and flowers. 



A. adippe. — Common in the above locality. Contrary to Mr. 

 Rowland-Brown's experience I find it far more abundant than 

 A. aglaia, which occurs but sparingly there and in neighbouring 

 parts of the hills. 



B. selene and B. euphrosyne. — Both fairly common at Greenfield 

 and other gullies on the hills. 



I have never met with or heard of M. aurinia or M. athalia in 

 the district. 



H. lucina. — Fairly common in gully between Shirburn Wood and 

 Pyrton Hill and other similar localities. 



I have never met with Z. hetula. As regards Z. quercus in the 

 district, I have been surprised at its absence from Greenfield Scrub, 

 which much resembles locahties in other parts of England where I 

 have found it abundantly. 



T. w-album. — Up to three years ago I used to find this butterfly 

 regularly about the second week in July in abundance in a particular 

 spot in Greenfield Scrub. Acres of ground there are covered with a 

 jungle of rose bay, E. angustijolium. At this particular spot a few 

 dwarf wych elms grew by the path, on which the larvae undoubtedly 

 fed, the imagos sunning themselves on the flowers of the Epilobium. 

 Some three or four years ago some miscreant cut down the elms, and 

 the butterflies seem to have totally disappeared. I have seen a stray 

 specimen or two in Pyrton Vicarage garden, and heard of them at a 



