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wings, and blackisli brown margins shot with puq^le. Female, 

 red-brown, with nnmerous black spots. Described as British 

 by Haworth and other writers, and even included by Mr. 

 Stainton among the species described in his " Manual," the 

 localities given being near Epping, and in Ashdown Forest, 

 Sussex. The latter locality had been named for other species 

 so totally improbable that the record became discredited. 

 From the Essex locality specimens were said to have been 

 obtained for several successive years by Dr. Leech, and after- 

 wards others were sent to Mr. Doubleday purporting to be from 

 the same district, but he was subsequently convinced that 

 these were not genuine. Mr. E. A. Fitch, who has excellent 

 materials for forming an opinion, is satisfied that the speci- 

 mens were not obtained in that district, and it is doubtful 

 whether any reliably British specimen exists. Its range in 

 Europe is such as would render its occurrence here probable, 

 and it may possibly be one of those which have entirely died 

 out in this country.] 



[C, gordius, Sulzcr. — Of this species (which is of a light 

 copper colour tinged in the male with violet, and having 

 black spots on the upper side in both sexes) a record appears 

 in the Entomolocjist for 1887, to the effect that a specimen 

 was taken by a pupil of the Blundells School at Tiverton in 

 the neighbourhood of that town, and its identity ascertained 

 at the British Museum. At my request Major J. N. Still 

 was kind enough to make some inquiries, and to obtain for 

 me the present address of the captor. The latter now states 

 that the specimen was captured near Sudbury, in Suffolk, 

 and that the record at Tiverton was an error. He has also 

 I^romised to forward the specimen. There is no reason to 

 suppose it to be a native. It may have been accidentally 

 imported with Alpine plants. It is common in Switzerland 

 and the Tyrol] 



[C. Circe, Hilh. ; dorilis, Stand. Cat. — Male, dark bronzy 

 brown ; female, with the fore wings brownish coppery ; both 



