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for varieties, and watching thera fly, as I set the normal forms 

 at liberty. Afterwards I pushed on, keeping away to the left 

 of the glorious ground behind Whitbarrovv Scarr, another 

 unknown entomological wooded district, which has never yet 

 been asked to give up its insect-treasures, though some of my 

 botanical friends have borrowed specimens of its little primrose. 

 Looking across towards the opposite wooded ridge, beyond 

 the valley, I observed a slight depression in the trees, six or 

 seven miles away, apparently, and made for it, following the 

 cart-roads when they seemed to lead that way, and leaving 

 them when they did not (nobody interferes with anyone 

 crossing the fells or fields in that district) : they seem rather 

 glad to see you, especially if you have any news or tobacco 

 to impart to them. Whilst on ray way to the ridge I hardly 

 saw an insect, but once over its crown, and into a recently- 

 cut hoopwood copse, Adippe greeted me all round, now here, 

 now there, in the wood, and on the road-sides: such a sight 

 I had never seen before. The fiercely hot day and want of 

 water forced me to leave, after I had caught and looked at 

 nearly a hundred specimens ; and the sight of Windermere 

 Lake, some miles below me, made me crave for water more 

 than ever. Pushing on I crossed the lake, drinking as I 

 went, and refreshed at the Ferry Hotel ; thence up the zigzag 

 road, leading to the village of Sawrey, I turned down the lane 

 leading to the foot of Easthwaite Lake, crossed the bridge and 

 through the plantation, and was in the Devil's Gallop : here 

 Adippe again appeared. Whilst I was looking at the umbel- 

 liferous flowers for Trycheris mediana (here very abundant 

 and fine) one alighted under my nose on my net, and I again 

 took a great many for examination. Whilst so engaged a 

 lady on horseback stopped to ask if I had found anything 

 valuable; she seemed to know butterflies pretty well, and I 

 showed her an extraordinary well silver-marked Adippe, 

 illustrative of my seeming nonsensical — hard run after a 

 butterfly, catching it, and then letting it fly — undertaking. 

 Whilst so doing a specimen alighted on a flower of Angelica 

 sylveslris close to us, which I secured, and showed her it as 

 being entirely without silver markings; and this specimen, 

 which 1 thought only a variety of Adippe, on being submitted 

 to our good friend Henry Doubleday, for his opinion, is 

 pronounced by him to be a veritable Argynnis Niobe. 



