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For instance, I, wlio have known the district well for nearl}' fifty 

 years, never heard of Papilla Machaon or EuchcUa jacohece being- 

 seen there b}' any one but myself, nor have I ever seen the latter 

 species there until this June. The object of this note, however, 

 is tlie genus Procris; and it was on Cliff Hill on June 15th, 1846, 

 in company with my good friend Samuel Stevens, I first took these 

 insects. My uncle, the late Mr. Auckland, had taken it the year 

 before; and those two specimens I had exhibited at the Entomo- 

 logical Society, and set at rest the question as to its being an 

 indigenous insect. How well I recollect the joy of James Francis 

 Stephens at this addition to our entomological fauna ; a note on 

 this subject will be found in ' The Zoologist' of 1845, pp. 1084-5 

 On Cliff" Hill, wherever Poterium Sanguisorba grows in abundance 

 there Procris glohulari<2 may be found, in the second week in 

 June, in perfect condition; this year, as the spring had been 

 warm, it was somewhat earlier, but as cold weather supervened it 

 continued to appear until nearly the end of the month. So far as 

 my observation goes, Helianthemum vidgare grows on the hill 

 only on the sunny slope of the northern side of the Coombe ; 

 here the plant, although in profusion, is stunted in growth, but 

 extends over a few acres of ground ; and about the third week in 

 June the entomologist maybe certain on a fine day to find Procris 

 geryon in some numbers, and this is the only spot on which it 

 can be found on the hill, so far as I am aware. I may 

 here remark that, although Helianthemum vulgare grows on the 

 Best Hill in far greater luxuriance, I have not discovered Procris 

 geryon there, although carefully sought for ; nor am I aware that 

 any other naturalist has been more successful. In the lower 

 parts of the hill-valleys the soil, by disintegration, has become 

 deeper, richer, and moister; here Rumex acetosa grows, and 

 amongst these plants I found Procris statices in soaie numbers ; 

 it is by far the scarcest of the three species on the hill, and I 

 have — as in the case of P. geryon — captured it but in one locality. 

 It must, I think, be a mistake that, in the ' Entomologist,' vol. ii., 

 p. 181, it is stated that the larvie of Procris statices mines the 

 leaves of Oxalis acetoseUa ; it might feed upon Bumex acetosclla, 

 but not on the Oxalis, which grows in woods — localities in which 

 P. statices is never found. On this Cliff Hill, for whose reputation 

 I am most jealous, we find, as I have proved during the month of 

 June this year, the three species of Procris living withing a mile 



